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<blockquote data-quote="Village Idiot" data-source="post: 395756" data-attributes="member: 29446"><p>How much have you thought about this?</p><p></p><p>First of all, small cost to replace the desktops? Are you shooting for iMacs for everyone or MBP, which is traditionally used in the business environment? If you're shooting for just iMacs, you'll probably spend atleast $1500 a piece, and for just the hardware, you're looking at $37,500 for just 25. Also, if you're running a large company and currently using windows, what server software are you using? If you're using Server 2k3, you'll have to purchase and configure new sever software and migrate everything over. If you're going to attempt to do this for the whole company, the cost could end up being as much as the company itself is worth. And not to mention, most companies want a warranty with the support group for which ever company you go with. I forget how much Dell was charging us for gold. I think it was quite a few thousand a year. Does Apple have something like this? You don't want to have anything happen to a computer and take a week to get it replaced with just the normal warranty. With Dell's service, we would have the part either the day we called or next day and a tech to install it if we needed. These are all MAJOR things you need to think about before trying to impliment the idea...</p><p></p><p>What's the "internet" division? Are you IT or do you have an IT group. If you have an IT group, I'm sure they won't go for it and the budget is going to have to be huge. If it's not broke, don't fix it.</p><p></p><p>edit: I don't mean to be a pessimist, but I'm in the IT division at work and I know about how much these things cost and how much a company doesn't want to have to replace all their computers unless they absolutely have to. I mean, we had to have several parts that cost over $50k replaced in one of out servers because the people that bought them 4 or 5 years ago are completely budget minded are more worried about cost vs reliability....which was affecting us down the road. But Dell's support that we paid for took care of it for free. That's something you'll definitely have to check out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Village Idiot, post: 395756, member: 29446"] How much have you thought about this? First of all, small cost to replace the desktops? Are you shooting for iMacs for everyone or MBP, which is traditionally used in the business environment? If you're shooting for just iMacs, you'll probably spend atleast $1500 a piece, and for just the hardware, you're looking at $37,500 for just 25. Also, if you're running a large company and currently using windows, what server software are you using? If you're using Server 2k3, you'll have to purchase and configure new sever software and migrate everything over. If you're going to attempt to do this for the whole company, the cost could end up being as much as the company itself is worth. And not to mention, most companies want a warranty with the support group for which ever company you go with. I forget how much Dell was charging us for gold. I think it was quite a few thousand a year. Does Apple have something like this? You don't want to have anything happen to a computer and take a week to get it replaced with just the normal warranty. With Dell's service, we would have the part either the day we called or next day and a tech to install it if we needed. These are all MAJOR things you need to think about before trying to impliment the idea... What's the "internet" division? Are you IT or do you have an IT group. If you have an IT group, I'm sure they won't go for it and the budget is going to have to be huge. If it's not broke, don't fix it. edit: I don't mean to be a pessimist, but I'm in the IT division at work and I know about how much these things cost and how much a company doesn't want to have to replace all their computers unless they absolutely have to. I mean, we had to have several parts that cost over $50k replaced in one of out servers because the people that bought them 4 or 5 years ago are completely budget minded are more worried about cost vs reliability....which was affecting us down the road. But Dell's support that we paid for took care of it for free. That's something you'll definitely have to check out. [/QUOTE]
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