Couldn’t find a post on this so apologies if it is somewhere but where are people buying their PCs from? Currently we use lenovo but they seem limited on options (e.g. get a 2.5 gig network card).
We no longer participate in purchasing hardware for our clients. For PCs, we send them to Dell.
We buy mostly from Lenovo as we have a partnership with them.
I was the CFO of a large MSP and we stopped reselling PCs to customers a few years back. The profit margins were so thin, it didn’t make sense for us. For a while we even were leasing PCs and reselling them as a service. That was a nightmare too. The devices are just too much of a commodity for most customers.
I used to build machines, but 2020 destroyed the market, and I eventually settled on reselling Lenovo via their LenovoPRO program. My clients seem to like the idea that I can provide them with a manufacturer Next Business Day multi-year warranty option and I pretty much always choose the 3 year Premier warranty with every machine I resell through them. I’ve been doing it that way for about 3 years and it’s been good. They’ve honored the very few warranty claims (only about 1.6% of machines I’ve deployed), and I and my clients have been happy with the options available.
I started working on a small company that custom build desktops for small businesses and a few home users that was willing to pay for the work.
That kind of died out after the big OEM manufactures started to make a wider selection.
So wen i started to work for another company we always referred customers to buy from HP or Dell…
They have (or had) as i have been out of the loop for almost 6years now… But i have good experiences of fast deliveries, good quality and fast and good service.
I have dealt with HP private as well, when i needed some recovery disks for EOL systems (i collect retro computers) and it was delivered within 36hours and i didn’t pay a cent for two systems disc setups.
So i say HP as first choice… Dell as second.
Great hardware and good support.