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by aznalta

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Hello my fellow friends from TechRepublic. I'm thinking about adding laptops to my inventory for retail. But I just can't find a good wholesale price and would like to know if theres anyway i could build my own laptops professionally? All answers are appreciated.

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by oh smeg

The company is Clevo and their head office is here

http://tinyurl.com/64q29y

MSI also provides NB Chassis to allow you to build your own to your preferred Specifications but as I've never used one of these I'm not sure just how good they are or how Price Competitive the system is but you can look here for a starting point.

http://tinyurl.com/3bm6yv

I'm not sure who the Distributes in your Country are for these products or even if there are any but a quick E-Mail to the Head Office will tell you what is available. These are the only 2 systems that I know of and the MSI is more a Base system while the Clevo that I have used have always been for upper end NB with a lot of Processing power that the big makers don't cater for. In a 3 year period I've sold well in excess of 800 of the Clevo's but as I'm only a small business who specializes in support & supplying small to medium business with their computer needs I'm not a overly good reference to High end sales as I don't compete with the Big Boys in this field I just supply good reliable high end units far cheaper than anyone else can for Specialist Users.

Col

by aznalta

OH Smeg, thank for your support. I find that Clevo and MSI both have China manufactuers, I did some research in China manufacturing and I came across some smaller business that offer wholesale laptops, would you think that smaller suppliers have a bigger price advantage than Clevo and MSI?

by oh smeg

I've only ever used Clevo and a few MSI NB Chassis to work with. I use the Clevo for High End Work NB's and the MSI for the more common run of the mill NB's that gamers seem to like.

But with any thing Computer related the money isn't in selling new product but servicing existing product. With the current Service Rates you can make more money in 2 Hours of charged Labor than what you make in selling new Hardware as the profit margins just are not available with the New Stuff.

Col

by aznalta

Thank you OH Smeg. It says you are from Australia, what are the service rates there?
Acutally i plan on expanding my business internationally. =D but don't worry, not in austrailia.

by oh smeg

I don't do General Computer Repairs so I wouldn't really know as we specialize in Small Business below 100 Workstations and look mainly at Security so the Rates are different for us.

However Hardware install charges are at the rate of $50.00 per hour I've been told but as I don't work in this area I'm not worried by any competition for Home Systems or even supplying Small Business. I already have my customers [b]"Edumicated"[/b] to do as they like and then pay me or my staff to fix the mess that they make. So now mostly they just rely on me to supply their needs because we git it right First Time and don't mess them around. :D

Well not too much at least. I still have one guy that I do free work for occasionally as his I Pod drives me nuts. Just had everything sorted and his NB got dropped destroying it and he hadn't made a Backup of his most recent Data as he didn't think it necessary. Starting from Scratch all over again he's now thinking a bit differently. But I did recover all his MP3's I just refused to spend the several thousand Hours entering the Songs name & Artist though. :^0

The work that we do is on a sliding scale depending on the business starting at the 160 per hour mark and going up from there. I feel that if we can not fix a major problem within a couple of hours we shouldn't be doing the work though. Of course having staff who I've trained previously is a bit of a help. :0

Col

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