[Chugalug] Best Buy vs. White Box

[John Aldrich]

On Tuesday 22 April 2008, Stephen Kraus wrote:
> Hence I will usually build my own machines. Do not get me wrong, I will
> take any and all computer stuff I can get my grubby geek hands on, but I
> like building my own machines
>
Yeah, but in a corporate environment, "White Box" is not popular, unless you 
can get the *same* components for an extended period. With Dell or 
HP "business" PCs, you can get the same chipsets, etc for an extended period 
(over a year.)

We bought probably close to a couple dozen Dell Optiplex PCs. They all have 
the same chipsets, but different versions of the AMD Athlon processor. Some 
have an X2, others have some other Athlon. However, you can take a Windows 
image from one and  put it on another and with very little "tweaking" once 
it's copied over to the new PC, it's good to go. 

Try that with a "White Box" PC.