Computers for Small Businesses

Select a small business computer.

In the early to mid-‘90s, leading PC vendors began segmenting their product lines into two or three distinct tiers.

As the domestic and global market demand for desktop PCs, notebooks and servers began to soar, top PC vendors such as Compaq, Dell, Gateway, Hewlett Packard and IBM wanted to have PC products that would be highly relevant and compelling for various needs and budgets.

Enterprise customers, such as Fortune 1000 network managers, would pay premium prices but require incredible amounts of scalability, reliability and availability, stable and mature hardware configurations, as well as ease of manageability. Relative Cost Indicator: $$$

Home users would need rock-bottom prices to entice first-time buyers, as well as bleeding edge hardware components for gaming, digital photography, video capture and other Internet-era hobbies. Relative Cost Indicator: $

Small business users would need something in between -- not too stripped down, not too loaded up, but a very good mid-range value. Relative Cost Indicator: $$

Action Items

Do you know which of your PC hardware assets are designed for the unique needs of small businesses?

Do you have any consumer-oriented PC hardware that's been problematic to support in the past?

Have you purchased any PC hardware in the past that you felt was overkill and geared more toward the needs of large companies?

 

 

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