...CiT 1017 Gaming Black Midi Tower Case Price:£23.46 Microsoft Windows 8.1 - 64-bit DVD (OEM) Price:£75.94 WD AV 320GB SATA II 3.5" Clean Pull Hard Drive Price:£20.98 Sumvision Standard X3 500W Power Supply Price:£10.88 Dynamode (1.5m) 19-pin MaleMale HDMI Cable Gold Plated Connectors Triple Shielding Supports Up to 1080p Price:£2.10 CCL Choice AMD Heatsink/Fan for 95W Processors (AM2/AM3/AM3+/FM1/FM2) Price:£4.99 Dynamode USBSOUNDCARD2.0 USB Sound Card 2.0 Adaptor Price:£2.09 Total Price £23,563.93 £225.65 Motherboard This is the expensive motherboard and it has many features. It includes 12 usb ports whereas the cheaper motherboard has 4, also up to 64gb DDR4 ram s supported which is excellent. With this motherboard it will help you build a pc system that is very fast and with high specs. This motherboard is less powerful and has less features than the...
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...Building your Own Computer It is increasingly popular to build your own computer. In most cases, it saves money, and it guarantees you get what you want. It also assures you avoid proprietary designs many companies use to keep you coming to them for new parts. Best of all, having built the system yourself, you become very familiar with that system and with computers in general. People from all walks of life today build their own PCs. Executives, engineers, students, housewives, they all do it today. But, at the same time, pre-built PCs have come down in price quite a bit. Today, one is left to wonder whether it is best to build a PC yourself or to simply buy one off the shelf. I’ll address that here. If you are a real PC enthusiast, this question may be a non-issue. The answer may be as obvious as the color of the sky. This is predictable, of course. When one builds their own PC, they are able to not only understand their PC better because they built it, but they are able to choose each component that goes into their PC. There is really something to be said for choosing your own components, and I’ll go into that further below. There is also a certain sense of satisfaction with having built a PC. One spends a few hours (or less for those more familiar with the process) to put the thing together. Then comes the moment of truth when one hits the power switch for the first time. If it works on the first try, its beer time! But, besides the joy of it, is it worth it? Is it...
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...your stock full of components, always you will have a lot of the wrong stuff and none of the right stuff. Many companies are not sure if it´s good of running so lean in an uncertain world, because you never safe for terrorist attacks or natural disasters. Another innovation is when they miss a forecast and they see they are running out of 15-inch flat screens they make for example a one week special of 17-inch screens in that time they sell it cheaper and so they lead the customer what they should buy. Supply-chain expert’s call this “demand shaping”, because its direct-to-the-customer model allows it to shift demand to match what its suppliers can deliver. The organizational innovation and also the commercial innovation of Dell is the build-to-order model with this model they receive the payment from its customers immediately with the order, through credit cards, either online or over the...
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...CIS 10 | PC Gaming | | Ryan Mills 4-24-2014 | PCs are a good choice for gaming for a multitude of reasons, including but not limited to price, reparability, upgradability, value, versatility, performance, game selection, game prices, and more. Computers are an ever-evolving platform. It grows in power, capability, and value almost every single year. The cause of this improvement is partially because it is free of control from any single entity. Rather than being regulated by a single company, control and improvement influence over the PC belongs to everyone equally. Everybody has the freedom to create and/or sell software and hardware for it. It's being constantly improved by competing companies and individuals all over the hardware spectrum, and all of them are trying to offer you (and game developers) the best experience possible. A common misconception is that pc gaming is more expensive than consoles. It is not. Especially if you only plan to target console performance. There are already graphics cards available on the market for $150 that surpass the PS4 and XBox One in terms of frame rate, resolution, detail, value, and power draw. A lot of people incorrectly believe that you have to spend upwards of $750-$1000 to get a PC fully capable of handling games. These inaccuracies can be attributed partially to the highly vocal and misinformed masses, and to the availability and hype of the expensive PC hardware we see advertised a lot. You see it more because it's...
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...Mac Vs. PC “The biggest ongoing discussion has to be the one that’s dominated the technological world for well over two decades: the Mac vs Pc debate” (Intel.com). Many have debated that Pc is better than Mac while others have debated Mac is better than Pc. Only a few have said that it depends on what it’s used for. If only we had more insight to both sides of Mac and Pc. Many people pick a computer based on what they are used for to and don’t find the computer that’s right for them. Others don’t find out the facts about each computer and just go with the cheapest because it’s cheap, even though they would be getting a cheap computer it can still be the wrong kind of computer for them, plus it wouldn’t work to their advantage. Before reading this you have to dismiss the ideas you had about Mac’s and Pc’s. If you put aside what you think you know about Pc, and Mac you will understand what computer is best for you. “Mac is a line of personal (PCs) designed, developed, and marketed by Inc. It was initially targeted mainly at the home, education, and creative professional markets. Since the introduction of the Macintosh, the computer has seen significant evolution now making it one of, if not the most powerful general-purpose computers on the market. It now targets the business, science, and law markets as well.” “Microsoft Windows is a series of graphical interface operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft. Microsoft introduced an operating named Windows on November...
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...of a software gal than a hardware geek myself, I was the only Life hacker editor who had never built a PC from scratch. So when I needed a new PC late last year, I took the plunge and built my custom system. I'm so glad I did—the project turned out to be one of my proudest accomplishments of 2010. If you've cracked open your PC before to install a new hard drive or TV capture card, but you've never built a whole new system from the ground up, it's not as difficult as you might think. Here are my notes for first-timers who want to build instead of buy their next computer. Why Build Instead of Buy "But computers are so cheap these days," you say. "Why waste the time and energy building your own system when you can get a great machine fully assembled and shipped to your door?" That's a great question. Building your own PC will not save you time. It might save you money, but that's not even the best reason to do it. For me, it was a fantastic hands-on educational experience. It gives me a deep sense of satisfaction every single day when I press the power button on my tower, watch it light up, and know that I plugged in the wire that goes from that light to the motherboard. Building your PC takes the mystery out of what's going on inside that black box you spend hours on per day. There are other good reasons to build instead of buy, too. With your own build you can customize your system just how you like and make your perfect media center or gaming machine....
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...hi Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation Turn green Computing solution ‘En computing x 550’ device which is using by the company it is a new application of the sophisticated system, that is in practice in China. And it is in the beginning stage in Kerala. India where it is going to launch. Now a days the 30 system can work at a time with one CPU . Does not create heat save power extra power suplay Easy to administrate Provide privacy to all systems Working with the USB no cables It is with High configuration Cheap price bec one cpu is enough Executive Summary It mainly provide the service of “en computing solution” which is a process of working almost 30 computers with the help of just one CPU. It Offering easy and low cost of working multi computers at a time and more echo friendly. its related services to companies Mission: To provide excellent and worlds-class IT Services and Solutions to enable our Customers do best. Turn green Computers serves efficiently and reliably to its customer as a trusted partner. We provide 24/7 service to the customers to make them feel comfort and cost effective in their business. Vision: To become a leader in the business of computer networking field for its region. Objectives: ■ To market a business for £1million by third year. ■ To target 12 different companies or the public firm as customers per year to maximize the profit. ■ To implement the 24/7 technical...
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...Kieran Brandjes Compare and Contrast 10/5/14 English 101 iPhone vs. Galaxy Samsung and Apple are considered the two of the biggest electronics companies for numerous years. The two companies were endlessly compared with all sorts of electronics from phones, laptops, and tablet PCs. Then, there was a phone that would start another argument amongst “Samsung fans” and “Apple fans” and this phone was the Galaxy S5 that was released few months ago. In rebuttal, the iPhone 6 and 6 plus was released a couple of weeks ago. These two phones will create a lot of buzz and there will be multiple articles judging the two phones. But all of the rivalry aside, we will be looking at the differences that may be causing the argument amongst the Samsung and Apple customers. The first differences between the two phones are the size. The size of a phone is important for a phone because when it comes cell phones, people want to be able to easily transport it in their pocket or purse. For the past 3 years, Samsung has created phones with screens of 4.8, 5.0, 5.1, 5.5, and 5.7 inches big. They have received a lot of flak from critics calling their phones small tablets. However their reasoning behind it was the screen was easier to see to browse the web, play games, and watch movies. Apple has only created phones with a screen size of 4.0 inches or less. Apple believed the iPhone fit better in the hand at a smaller size and was also portable. However in recent releases with the iPhone 6 and 6 plus...
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...I. The “PISOPRINT” Photo Printing & Services II. Why PISO PRINT? 1st – PISO PRINT is a strong marketing strategy to attract curious customers into your place. 2nd – Printing photos and documents at the lowest price of one peso. III. Objectives of the Business • To be the first in mind of the customer when it comes in providing cheap (but high quality) photo printing and Digital ID services, etc. • To be the trend setter in the digital photo printing industry. • To build a very competitive photo printing shop. IV. Product / Services Basic Services: o Digital photo printing from digital cameras or cell phones via Bluetooth, Infrared and all types of memory cards. o Digital Photo ID o Document Printing o Desktop Publishing Other Possible Services: o Electronic Loading o Typing Jobs o Photo Invitations o Plastic lamination o Calling Cards o Studio portraits o MP3 downloads o MP4, PSP, CP Games Downloads o Souvenir Items V. Location ? Near School Area and also in residential place. ? Near Market but secured place. ? Very populated place. VI. Target Market ? People needing photo requirements like ID. ? Students who do their research and projects in school. VII. Competitiveness on the Market ? Affordable photo printing ? Cheapest digital ID ? Fastest services ? Customer Friendly Staff ? Well Ventilated Place. Marketing Strategies o Promo for Discounts/Membership. o Flyers and Posters. VIII...
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...Lenovo Problem: Lenovo worked on the strategy to build a master brand while leveraging the ThinkPad product brand name, thereby implying an immediate challenge of maintaining the loyalty of existing customers, specifically the ThinkPad, while sustaining innovation at the same time. Moreover, the much thought out first innovation in the form of the X41 Tablet series from Lenovo after the acquisition, led to IBM being given all the credit owing to the less popularity of Lenovo. The association of Lenovo with China and the Chinese Government was a potential downside for it to compete in price competitive products with the fear of being recognized as the company from China providing cheap products. This not only had the potential to devalue the Lenovo master brand, but could also damage the premium ThinkPad brand. While a relatively low budget on worldwide marketing as compared to its competitors also proved to be a reason for its market share to that of the PC market leader being as low as 1:3. Competition: Dell was Lenovo’s greatest competitor, being the market share leader with a strong global footprint. The direct sales approach rather than the retail store distribution model led to its rapid growth in China. Similar to Dell, HP, another competitor of Lenovo, also focused on providing standardized products while maintaining a low cost and supply chain. Moreover, Apple and Sony concentrated their energies on innovation and providing premium products. Other competitors were...
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...rapid easy messaging; this was the critical driver of its success. Most of their strategic and marketing decisions, such as its choice of content, advertising, pricing, technology and hardware, revolved around appealing to young Japanese customers. Its consistent marketing approach created a service that consumers were previously not able to articulate. The service was a “blue ocean” (Kim & Mauborgne, 2005) - a standalone service that uniquely integrated the most appealing aspects of the internet and mobile communications. The following are the key decisions that supported the success of DoCoMo: Content DoCoMo chose not to control the entire value chain from content to network, but rather involved the work of third-party entrepreneurs to build content. Partners like Bandai (Moon et al., 2002, p.6), Japan’s largest producer of toys and video games, supplied emotionally appealing content for teenagers and young adults. In addition, a centralized and seamless billing structure facilitated payment to content providers by subscribers who valued convenience and who disliked small purchases made with credit cards. This service proved popular; in 2001 around half of i-mode’s customers were subscribing to at least one premium site (Moon et al., 2002, p.7). Advertising Advertisements downplayed the advanced technology behind i-mode and instead focused on the content, which appealed to customers emotions. This focus on content was also appreciated by the content providers which were so critical...
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...their PCs tend to buy HP brand. For instance, HP Power Distribution Rack which controls three-phase power distribution across a row of server racks brings enhanced flexibility to IT personnel who are seeking to place power where it is needed, but without over provisioning or otherwise wasting the precious resource. In other hand people who want high performance, they tend to buy IBM brand. For instance, IBM System x server (formerly IBM eServer™ xSeries®) brought up database application, all of the performance number were beyond expectation. Actually, Compaq is well-positioned because its non price attribute position is balance both in performance and flexibility. Which competitor(s) should Dell be the most concerned about? Why? Competitor: IBM because as you can see in the positioning map it’s the nearest competitor that dell face. Dell has to compete on the nearest one because there just little difference in performance so it can be easily pursued by improving performance quality at least same as IBM. Compared with Hp, the difference is too far which means the capability is indeed totally different so it will be too difficult to be pursued and it sounds unbalanced competition. Source: IBM's personal computer business is taken over by Chinese electronics giant Lenovo, while IBM itself focuses more and more on selling its information technology expertise to corporations. Competitors (out of the 2 key attributes): HP because both strategic emphasis on the PC segment...
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...Although Windows 8’s controversial interface changes and obvious accommodations for mobile hardware may cause die-hard desktop users to approach the new OS with trepidation, Windows 8 offers many enhancements worth an upgrade. First and foremost, Windows 8 is streamlined to perform well on lower-end hardware than its most recent predecessors. Its minimum requirements are similar to Windows 7, but Windows 8 uses less memory, consumes less disk space, and its UI elements aren’t as graphically rich. Windows 8 also leverages most GPUs to accelerate more OS elements in hardware than does Windows 7. All of these changes in Windows 8 culminate in an operating system that simply doesn’t need high-end hardware to run well. Knowing that, we set out to build a speedy Windows 8-ready system for under $500. With such a limited budget, dedicating a significant amount of money to any single component isn’t a possibility. With the right balance though, half a grand should be plenty of cash to put together a nice Windows 8 system with minimal compromise. Choosing our components Let’s get what’s probably going to be the most controversial decision out of the way first: The heart of our sub-$500 Windows 8 system is an AMD A8-3870K APU, or Accelerated Processing Unit (basically a CPU + GPU combo). The 3870K sports a quad-core CPU running at 3.0GHz and an integrated, on-die Radeon HD 6000 series GPU. We chose this APU for a few reasons. First off, even though Intel’s desktop processors offer better...
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...By facing more and more intensive domestic and international competition in the PC market, Lenovo’s global market share shrank by 6.8% in the average of first and second quarter of 2005. It can be said that this result came from the fact that they don’t have a specific, unique, and competitive marketing strategy in the world other than China. If this market share drop continued, it could be obvious that Lenovo would become a loser in global PC market, which result could have been consequently estimated $205 million decrease in revenues in the end of 2005 compared to the result of 2004 (see Exhibit 1). At that time, the Lenovo’s managements decided that they acquired IBM’s personal systems division in December 2004 in order to conquer this situation and become a global leading technology company. The primary challenge for the problem in this case was how to build a global marketing and branding strategy other than China by utilizing IBM’s brand and its well-established products such as ThinkPad laptop and ThinkCentre desktop. Situation Analysis (See Exhibit 2) Costumers needs and characteristics Although there are a wide variety of customers in the world, it can be basically said that individual customers are extremely price sensitive after PC became a commodity product like cell phones. In general, young generation in developing and developed countries pursues cheaper products regardless of PCs’ specification. Intensive low price competition results in a shrink of profit...
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...vision was to be the low cost provider. This is arguably the most important key to Dell's success. He decided this was the direction the company was going to go and stuck with it, and his ability to reduce overhead allowed him to achieve it. ii. Setting Objectives: Dell's objective was focused on increasing margins, while keeping the end price low. He was able to achieve this by cutting out the middle-men and selling directly to the end user. iii. Crafting a Strategy: All of Dell's strategies were geared towards increasing the bottom line. If it didn't align with the overall goals, the idea was rejected. iv. Implementing and Executing: Dell's ability to stay ahead of the curve by offering completely customizable PCs build to the customers specification allowed the company to maintain the explosive growth it saw in the early years of the company. Strategic acquisitions allowed the company to augment and expand its offering to target additional markets. v. Evaluating Performance and Initiating Corrective Adjustments: Dell's early adoption of the newest technology has allowed the company to gain full visibility into the profitability of each piece of hardware it sells and helped predict future trends in consumer...
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