[wplug] non dell system builders

[Kimberly McKinnis]

We use kingstarusa.com here. I've actually used them while I've been at
several companies, and purchased thousands of machines, because they
give us great deals and very personal support. (Everything comes with 1
yr parts and labor, you can purchase more.) They don't do online though,
you have to request a quote from them, but they do custom machines for
good prices. The downside is they're not local to you, so you'd have to
ship RMAs. 

~Kim

-----Original Message-----
From: wplug-bounces+kmckinnis=tivo.com at wplug.org
[mailto:wplug-bounces+kmckinnis=tivo.com at wplug.org] On Behalf Of Patrick
Wagstrom
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 4:06 PM
To: WPLUG General user list
Subject: [wplug] non dell system builders

I'm helping to order some machines for some research here at CMU.  Dell
came back with a pretty outrageous quote, mainly because they don't have
a rackmount case that can fit the drives we'd like, so they need to sell
us an external storage enclosure, which really jacks up the price of the
systems.  Does anyone have good experience with any non-dell system
builders?  Ideally it would be someplace like what Monarch Computer used
to be, where you can go online, select your cpu, hard drives, raid, etc
and get a nice little web quote.

The key element is that they have some sort of support we can get for
the machine if it breaks.

Any suggestions of good people, either local or otherwise?

--Patrick
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