PC Hardware Purchase Tips
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Smart PC hardware selection can make your
installation, support, troubleshooting and upgrading work much easier.
Selecting the right PCs and related peripherals can lower your
company’s computer support costs dramatically, while
boosting system reliability and employee productivity. Pick the
wrong PC hardware and well let’s not even go there!
Despite
all the advances during the past few years, the venerable desktop,
notebook and server have remained the staples of the PC hardware
world.
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Sure,
there are newcomers. Since the mid-‘90s, both Palm and Microsoft
have spearheaded competing handheld standards. And now there are
special-purpose rack-mountable servers, with surely more to come,
dedicated to the unique demands of serving high-volume Web sites.
We’ll start this
chapter with a look at cost reduction techniques for desktop PCs,
notebook computers and, to a lesser extent, servers. Then, we’ll
examine computer support and cost considerations with product
warranties, component upgrades and spare parts. In Chapter 2,
we’ll highlight computer support cost concerns for various
peripherals, primarily modems and printers, as well as related
underlying hardware technologies.
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