Buying new business desktops - what do you like?
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Another vote for Dell Optiplex. They haven't let me down.
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@dashrender, @JaredBusch, @scottalanmiller : You assume that all clients/sites have a VLK or will pay for you to perform a clean install when one could spend under 10 minutes removing applications.
I'm not saying that you're all incorrect, just that it's not something that one can do for all clients.
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@manxam said in Buying new business desktops - what do you like?:
@dashrender, @JaredBusch, @scottalanmiller : You assume that all clients/sites have a VLK or will pay for you to perform a clean install when one could spend under 10 minutes removing applications.
I'm not saying that you're all incorrect, just that it's not something that one can do for all clients.
You should be able to download the
MediaCreationTool.exe. And create a bootable ISO so you can reinstall a clean Windows 10 install.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 -
@manxam said in Buying new business desktops - what do you like?:
@dashrender, @JaredBusch, @scottalanmiller : You assume that all clients/sites have a VLK or will pay for you to perform a clean install when one could spend under 10 minutes removing applications.
I'm not saying that you're all incorrect, just that it's not something that one can do for all clients.
You are incorrect. I have a single client with VLSC and imaging rights. That has nothing to do with installing clean.
It most certainly is something you can do and it will take less time than uninstalling shit and updating to the current version of Windows. That process is a fucking reinstall anyway. So there is that step saved too.
Any new computer shipped with Windows 10 has the key in the bios. This means you never even have to boot the thing up to the initial factory image if you don't want.
I usually do just to make sure it is activated just because I like to play it safe.
Then I reboot to the USB key I have with the current rev of Windows already on it.
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To add to @JaredBusch 's post, for the clients where I'm not imaging the machines, after the clean install, I have a USB key with a script that runs that installs my remote control agent and then I just fire off a script with a chocolatey script that installs Acrobat, Chrome, etc. You can automate things so it's not a huge time suck.
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@mike-davis said in Buying new business desktops - what do you like?:
To add to @JaredBusch 's post, for the clients where I'm not imaging the machines, after the clean install, I have a USB key with a script that runs that installs my remote control agent and then I just fire off a script with a chocolatey script that installs Acrobat, Chrome, etc. You can automate things so it's not a huge time suck.
Script works. State does too.
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@penguinwrangler said in Buying new business desktops - what do you like?:
@thwr said in Buying new business desktops - what do you like?:
Dell, HP, Fujitsu, whatever you prefer.
Have you ever bought Fujitsu? They always seem good by the specs and price.
I don't believe these are available in the US anymore are they?
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@bigbear said in Buying new business desktops - what do you like?:
@penguinwrangler said in Buying new business desktops - what do you like?:
@thwr said in Buying new business desktops - what do you like?:
Dell, HP, Fujitsu, whatever you prefer.
Have you ever bought Fujitsu? They always seem good by the specs and price.
I don't believe these are available in the US anymore are they?
http://www.shopfujitsu.com/store/store_locator.jsp?store=Reseller
http://www.shopfujitsu.com/store/ref_state.jsp?type=storetype&value=distributorLooks like they are available
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@bigbear said in Buying new business desktops - what do you like?:
@penguinwrangler said in Buying new business desktops - what do you like?:
@thwr said in Buying new business desktops - what do you like?:
Dell, HP, Fujitsu, whatever you prefer.
Have you ever bought Fujitsu? They always seem good by the specs and price.
I don't believe these are available in the US anymore are they?
Available, but very hard to get.
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@scottalanmiller said in Buying new business desktops - what do you like?:
@bigbear said in Buying new business desktops - what do you like?:
@penguinwrangler said in Buying new business desktops - what do you like?:
@thwr said in Buying new business desktops - what do you like?:
Dell, HP, Fujitsu, whatever you prefer.
Have you ever bought Fujitsu? They always seem good by the specs and price.
I don't believe these are available in the US anymore are they?
Available, but very hard to get.
Well, they do build good systems, some of them last "forever". But if they are not available or barely available in the US...
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OK, to the end to my question seems to be - stick with status quo.
i.e. Dell Optiplex or HP Elite series.
Of course a few other names were tossed around, but the general consensus wasn't some unheard of (by me) brand or whiteboxing, etc.
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@dashrender said in Buying new business desktops - what do you like?:
OK, to the end to my question seems to be - stick with status quo.
i.e. Dell Optiplex or HP Elite series.
Of course a few other names were tossed around, but the general consensus wasn't some unheard of (by me) brand or whiteboxing, etc.
+1 for optiplex
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@matteo-nunziati said in Buying new business desktops - what do you like?:
@dashrender said in Buying new business desktops - what do you like?:
OK, to the end to my question seems to be - stick with status quo.
i.e. Dell Optiplex or HP Elite series.
Of course a few other names were tossed around, but the general consensus wasn't some unheard of (by me) brand or whiteboxing, etc.
+1 for optiplex
Unless there price is noticeably less than HP's, I'm not likely to switch. HP Elite desktops have been great for me. Small form factor i5 with 8 GB RAM run around $800.
