External video card needed
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@technobabble said:
@scottalanmiller It seems I forgot to mention the client bought AIO PCs.
Ah ha, what bad planning.
http://i1.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/000/554/facepalm.jpg
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@technobabble Yeah My vote is re-purpose those and Just get another pc with PCIE slots.
that's what I would say. You'll spend a fortune getting poorly planned machines to work kind of.
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@technobabble said:
Figured as much...but was hopefull that someday there would be a real external video card box, that looks just like a full size external hard drive. Seems not much to ask for.
The interface speed to a drive is like molasses compared to the PCIe bus. You can't easily put PCIe over a cable.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@technobabble said:
Figured as much...but was hopefull that someday there would be a real external video card box, that looks just like a full size external hard drive. Seems not much to ask for.
The interface speed to a drive is like molasses compared to the PCIe bus. You can't easily put PCIe over a cable.
Well you can there are speciality boxes that do exactly what he wants.. It'll just cost as much as the computer though.
Here's the cheapest one I know of but it's Macs only: http://secure1.sonnettech.com/product_info.php?products_id=485
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Well I am glad I was not consulted about the purchases. Of course is this one of the issues with small businesses with no IT presence. I am working with them trying to get past a break/fix relationship...maybe this is the turning point!
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@technobabble said:
Well I am glad I was not consulted about the purchases. Of course is this one of the issues with small businesses with no IT presence. I am working with them trying to get past a break/fix relationship...maybe this is the turning point!
Might be best to explain how re-purposing those for someone else and purchasing new, more adequate machines is the best thing for this situation
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@ajstringham There are only 2 workers in the office so repurposing them will be a challange
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@technobabble said:
@ajstringham There are only 2 workers in the office so repurposing them will be a challange
Oh, well that changes things. So EXTREME S in SMB.
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Most companies have a return policy. How long ago were they purchased? Paying a restocking fee and buying the right thing new is probably easier and definitely better than trying to get the wrong thing working the right way.
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I will be looking for new desktops and monitors to replace both AIOs. She's not too happy but I reminded her she never actually consulted with any IT person before the purchases.
She said she did check online reviews of both products before purchasing. I reminded her that both device were probably fine for residential use and other mom and pop businesses but not for software that is basically a lite CAD/CAM program.
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@technobabble said:
I will be looking for new desktops and monitors to replace both AIOs. She's not too happy but I reminded her she never actually consulted with any IT person before the purchases.
She said she did check online reviews of both products before purchasing. I reminded her that both device were probably fine for residential use and other mom and pop businesses but not for software that is basically a lite CAD/CAM program.
Yeah, get some HP Elitedesk computers with a good NVIDIA graphics card.
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If they want to find something cheap, but still good, go here:
http://h71016.www7.hp.com/html/hpremarketing/daily.asp?jumpid=in_r2910_bizoutlet/remarketing/smbclearance&a=a#SMB1 -
@ajstringham said:
Most companies have a return policy. How long ago were they purchased? Paying a restocking fee and buying the right thing new is probably easier and definitely better than trying to get the wrong thing working the right way.
6 Months is not going to be covering anything but defects.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@ajstringham said:
Most companies have a return policy. How long ago were they purchased? Paying a restocking fee and buying the right thing new is probably easier and definitely better than trying to get the wrong thing working the right way.
6 Months is not going to be covering anything but defects.
I meant an after-purchase return policy. It ranges from 14-90 days, depending on the company and the product.
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@ajstringham Yes, but he has had them for 6 months.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@ajstringham Yes, but he has had them for 6 months.
Ah, missed that fact somehow.
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Sucks for them, but hopefully this will wake them up to the fact that they need to consult someone before just purchasing whatever looks good to them, willy nilly. Not that this stops a lot our clients from doing stupid stuff like buying laptops at Best Buy, Staples, etc, without realizing what their requirements actually are.
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@Dominica said:
Sucks for them, but hopefully this will wake them up to the fact that they need to consult someone before just purchasing whatever looks good to them, willy nilly. Not that this stops a lot our clients from doing stupid stuff like buying laptops at Best Buy, Staples, etc, without realizing what their requirements actually are.
It amazes me, now that I've seen what business-grade products are like, how badly made most consumer crap is...laptops being the worst.
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@Dominica said:
Sucks for them, but hopefully this will wake them up to the fact that they need to consult someone before just purchasing whatever looks good to them, willy nilly. Not that this stops a lot our clients from doing stupid stuff like buying laptops at Best Buy, Staples, etc, without realizing what their requirements actually are.
We say on a day when we are dealing with just that
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@scottalanmiller Just another day in the SMB...
