Financing Computers for Business?

Posted by Cliff on Thursday October 31, 2002 @06:20AM from the intimidated-by-the-numbers dept.

Mercutio asks: "OK, I've been handed the responsibility of acting like a grown-up and changing from my normal day-to-day IT job to actually making decisions involving someone else's money. Specifically, I've been asked to deal with all the variables associated with purchasing/leasing computer equipment (desktops, laptops, printers etc) and I'm feeling a bit out of my league. Anyone have any tips for dealing with leasing or financing equipment, companies to avoid working with, or mistakes made in past leasing/purchasing arrangements? Any company that was really great to work with? Any help is of course appreciated. Thanks."

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Even used, Dells are good by gentlewizard · 2002-10-31 11:44 · Score: 4, Interesting

My home lab has two Dell Precision 210 workstations, with a KVM box to a common monitor. I bought them used on UBid for about $300 each. They still work great, even after a corporation banged on them a couple of years.

What I really like about them is the "no tools" cases. I can flip up/open just about everything just by releasing latches. I wish the cabling was longer, but they've been good for me.