Monday 23 April 2018

Things To Know Before Buying Your First Business PC

By Kathleen Hill


Perhaps you have your own business right now and are considering automating some of your office procedures and functions. This can be in the form of streamlining your accounting and communications tasks. For this, you will need a reliable business PC to assist you in your needs.

It might not be a bad idea to use a checklist, a simple management tool, to aid you in your decision at this time. Using a checklist will make sure that you arrive at the best informed decision possible. This very simple tool can be very helpful in making a purchasing decision, especially when factoring in many different variables. Always use a checklist when you feel there is a need for it.

An important first item for your checklist is the amount of money that you are willing to spend and if it is generally affordable. This is a purchase of a new computer, and even if you do buy it as second hand, it will still be classified as a capital expense. Check if your operational budget will allow it and act and decide accordingly.

A good next item to add will be to surmise or determine the actual tasks in the office you need to streamline and automate. If it is just simple and ordinary tasks like communicating and book keeping tasks, then you may not need a very expensive machine at all. You may need a more expensive one however if you plan to do some graphic design and animation, you will need a more powerful and of course more expensive machine.

It may also be a good idea to take stock of the skills needed to use for your new computer, prior to your purchase of one. Make sure that you have the requisite skills or knowledge needed to operate it. Or if you are not the real user, then the person who will be using it once you purchase it must have the skills needed. Lacking any needed skills, you may need to get further training for it.

Once a purchase decision has been made, it will be time to decide between a choice of a Macintosh or the more plentiful IBM Standard PC or even clone. Choosing the former will mean much more cash involved as it uses more proprietary, or rather custom, software, but this means it will also be less prone to crashing and viruses.

When you do buy an IBM standard clone or computer, then you should only buy from reputable manufacturers or dealers. Never buy a so called customized machine that someone will put together for you, for these are hardly durable and will mostly lack warranty backups and options. Always go for branded items with the proper consumer protection warranties.

Thus in conclusion there are many factors to consider in choosing the right business computer for your needs. The items however that are covered In this article should suffice as a base standard to get your search going.




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