Buy Outright or Lease a PC?

oldtoolie

If you are in business, you want to do business and not mess around building computers. Get a new computer that will serve your needs and get to work.
The original question was -- buy or lease. That depends more on the finances of your business and the 'total cost of ownership' for leasing compared to buying.

Sicksorry

oldtoolie wrote: »

If you are in business, you want to do business and not mess around building computers. Get a new computer that will serve your needs and get to work.
compared to buying.

That said, The time spent messing around and learning to build computers will soon turn into a valuable skill when you have learnt your way around a system and in turn that could save you a small fortune every time it breaks down or there are problems with it.

paulwf

My experience trying to sort out computers for friends that have been donated PCs hasn't been good...they are usually given away for a reason! You can't go too far wrong with a £200 Dell box...latest version of Windows and Office Starter makes life easy. An equivalent spec built locally for me would have been another £100 more, they just couldn't compete at the low end, partly as they charge for labour and partly as they can't get the OEM deals on Windows. For general office use computers have changed from being a serious £1,000 purchase that required weeks of research into just picking up whatever is on offer...they are all well specced for average office use and after 3 years it is usually cost effective to just replace them.

Can't believe how much has changed in 10 years or so.

Lemon_Labs

You're best off buying it out right, PC World will tell you how much of a great thing it is to rent a laptop but you'll pay 2x the amount of the laptop and then you'll still have to buy it... and don't believe for a minute that it will cost you one months rent because it'll cost you market value so if you rented an £800 laptop then chances are you gonna still have to pay a couple hundred for it.

gazfocus

With the price of PC's as they are (you can buy a PC for as little as £200) it doesn't make sense to lease IMO. I've just built 2 very high spec machines for our business and they cost less than £1000 for both together.