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To: Steve Lee who wrote (31949)	2/21/2002 6:56:38 PM
From: Jdaasoc	Respond to of 99280

It was the PSU so only a 5 min fix but to some corporates it would have been an expensive service call or even a write off. My organzations records indicate that we are replacing 4-5 power supplies and 3 -4 hard drives per each new system delivered. I figure that more then 1/2 of companies will replace 30-100% of their computers this year if: - money stays cheap - economy doesn't go totally in crapper. This is due to fact that any business that wasn't involved in filed that was booming like construction is 1-2 years behind 3 year computer lifeccycle. The only way to get back on track is to buy need PC and give MSFT $500 OS and Ofice suite or to keep existing machines and give MSFT about $500 for terminal server licenses and Office licenses off server and turn existing old PC into dumb terminal. Either way they got you for $500. I interviewed a internet guy for a job today who was laid off on 9/12/01. His choice was to come work and apply himself here for $40 K to start or continue to collect unemployment at $400 a week until Oct 2002 while he atttends college. Needless to say, I didn't see any fire in his eyes to come to work for me.

To: Steve Lee who wrote (31949)	2/21/2002 7:05:33 PM
From: ajtj99	Respond to of 99280

We've bought all our PC's in the past year off of EBAY. Most of them are machines that were turned in off of lease, and they work great for the basic word processing and spreadsheet stuff we do. Our proprietary business software is in DOS, which can run on any machine, even 286's. Any network administrator will tell you if it ain't broke, don't fix it. We have everyone at least on Pentium 120's, and people using MS Office are usually on PII's. Unless people are downloading porno or power users, there is very little reason to upgrade. We won't allow anything to be purchased unless we can cost justify it and quantify a real world ROI. Our graphics machines get upgraded machines every 3-years because that's something that's pretty easy to justify. In between that we also tweak them a bit. I don't see any reason to buy a new machine when the value of that machine drops in half as soon as you send in your warranty card.