for a system like your suggesting, it'll be a virtually non existent market. 200-300 is budget. Your talking ultra budget.
Demand for sub £100 PC?
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for a system like your suggesting, it'll be a virtually non existent market. 200-300 is budget. Your talking ultra budget.
I don't know. People in here seem to be obssesed with everyone using Microsoft Office
Most people would probably just use a pirated version anyway.
If they wanted just Word, then I'm sure I could offer that too for a small additional price
we're not obsessed,. we just know the majority of people wont want to learn or have the hassle of using a diffrent system. they want wont they can use and what they use at work.
And yet this "ultra budget" PC could do pretty much everything a £300 one could
Ha ha,
Best of luck to ya, all I can say is it's not the best of ideas fella. But no one will buy it, even my "so called non technical" friends turn their noses up at certain "in house brand" laptops when spec wise they are better than the branded products.
Good luck! you need it! my last post in this thread!
Davem
Best of luck to ya, all I can say is it's not the best of ideas fella. But no one will buy it, even my "so called non technical" friends turn their noses up at certain "in house brand" laptops when spec wise they are better than the branded products.
Good luck! you need it! my last post in this thread!
Davem
Honestly m8 it's like bashing one's head against the wall
Am I forcing people to use OpenOffice or Linux? No. I'm offering them it as a free alternative.
If they want to use Microsoft Office or Windows then what's stopping them?
Nothing, but it's the same thing. They will look at a system which allready has those things. Not a system where they have to spend £60 here another £30 there to get a system they want.
No, it doesn't come with windows, it doesn't come with office, it doesn't come with a monitor.
What sub £300 system comes with Windows and Microsoft Office? Those two pieces of software alone add around £100+ to any computer unit!
People want options. People don't want to pay extra for software they can get for free (or already have licenses for)
Sorry but you can't define an entire population of 60 million+ people in 1 or 2 categories
a lot come with works, which has word init.
We're not talking about the entire population, we're talking about people who wouyld by ultra budget system. any way I've said My opinion..
Find a brand new PC with a monitor, input peripherals, Windows, and Microsoft Office for less than £350 and I would be quite surprised.
That's close to 4x the price of what we're talking. It's a completely different market
Computers are pretty cheap anyway now, unless you really are skint, I cant see the point of buying one so cheap. Dell pretty much fill that void.
Linux is going to scare the living daylights out of the average Joe on the street. Nice idea but would need massive marketing and I dont think MS would like it.
But to use it they'd have to pay more than their pc to buy an os that will work with it.
I use open office, and i often get sent word or excel documents and its a right hassle they come out all messed up when i open them formatting all wrong an when i save them other people on word have a right hassle, I'm only using it as I'm running pirated vista till i get a copy with my new pc.
***removed competitor****<£350 vista, 7.1 surround sound, 19" tft monitor, keyboard 1gb memory, dvd burner, 160GB hdd etc
*errrm actually im not sure if im allowed to post this as it is probably considered a competitor, so they have a black and silver logo, 4 letter name *not available in shops*just choose home desktop, THIS is the budget pc market.
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So, £99, less whatever you have to pay the VAT man, because this will attract VAT, equates to you building a PC for far less than £99. In fact, you would need to build the thing for £50 to make it worthwhile, and that is at £99+VAT.
Actually, scratch that, I doubt you would sell enough P.A to need to do VAT, but would that mean that you would also need to pay VAT on the components you bought?
Also, as a means to make a living, £50 wouldn't leave much profit, it wouldn't pay the rent at the sales levels I could imagine this attracting.
Actually, scratch that, I doubt you would sell enough P.A to need to do VAT, but would that mean that you would also need to pay VAT on the components you bought?
Also, as a means to make a living, £50 wouldn't leave much profit, it wouldn't pay the rent at the sales levels I could imagine this attracting.
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There could be a demand if it was designed to play media on a TV
I think that's a good idea, though why not go the whole 'caboodle' and just have it run off a TV. Therefore taking away the need to buy an extra monitor.
With what people pay for games consoles a £199 PC would be of an equal demand.
From glancing through this thread you are really looking at this from a high end power user style stance rather than from a beginners stance.
OpenOffice - While free, is completely different to a beginner. Sure, it does the same things, sure it's more lightweight, file size is smaller etc - but it's different and you have to get your head round it. People don't want that - specially as it saves documents as a .ODT - that means that people will not be able to open them in Word - and a layman will not understand that! Specially when you have to tell them they have to go the long way round just so there buddy can open there documents
Linux - Yes, ubuntu is easy - if you know what you are doing - I have used Windows machines all my life and for the last 4 OS X - and linux still confuses the hell out of me! I would say i'm quite adept on computers - but if I sat my father, mother or anyone of that level (which you are aiming at) down in front of a ubuntu install all I would get is a "huh?". Linux is a total mindfrick if you are new to it.
Support - you say you can support linux - you mean you are going to talk layman through command line stuff? I'm a helpdesk support agent and the thought of talking a John Smith Everyman through command line Linux made me shudder!
Peripherals - I know linux has come along way since the beginning, but can you guarantee support of all printers, cameras, scanners, and such John Smith Everyman wants to use?
Price - £99 = Cheap to me, and not bargain cheap, crap cheap = you are in that dangerous price zone of not "oh bargain!" but "hmmmm why so cheap?"
I'll probably think of some more things later, but they are the main points that came to mind right now!!
EDIT - DAVEM is right - NO ONE in there right mind will touch a tower with 256MB Ram in it. PERIOD. Offering an upgrade to 512MB so it can use pretty much the standard Windows XP really is cheeky, you technically are selling the £104 PC.
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Rich
OpenOffice - While free, is completely different to a beginner. Sure, it does the same things, sure it's more lightweight, file size is smaller etc - but it's different and you have to get your head round it. People don't want that - specially as it saves documents as a .ODT - that means that people will not be able to open them in Word - and a layman will not understand that! Specially when you have to tell them they have to go the long way round just so there buddy can open there documents
Linux - Yes, ubuntu is easy - if you know what you are doing - I have used Windows machines all my life and for the last 4 OS X - and linux still confuses the hell out of me! I would say i'm quite adept on computers - but if I sat my father, mother or anyone of that level (which you are aiming at) down in front of a ubuntu install all I would get is a "huh?". Linux is a total mindfrick if you are new to it.
Support - you say you can support linux - you mean you are going to talk layman through command line stuff? I'm a helpdesk support agent and the thought of talking a John Smith Everyman through command line Linux made me shudder!
Peripherals - I know linux has come along way since the beginning, but can you guarantee support of all printers, cameras, scanners, and such John Smith Everyman wants to use?
Price - £99 = Cheap to me, and not bargain cheap, crap cheap = you are in that dangerous price zone of not "oh bargain!" but "hmmmm why so cheap?"
I'll probably think of some more things later, but they are the main points that came to mind right now!!
EDIT - DAVEM is right - NO ONE in there right mind will touch a tower with 256MB Ram in it. PERIOD. Offering an upgrade to 512MB so it can use pretty much the standard Windows XP really is cheeky, you technically are selling the £104 PC.
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There are plenty of £199 pcs already on the market.