With the little bit of knowledge of computers that I have I thought let me be of some assistance to people who are in 2 minds of weather to buy a branded PC or order for an assembled PC. here we go, the advantage of buying a asembled PC is that u can use the best available in the market rather than in case of a branded PC where the entire configuration is bundled together and then sold to you. Assembled PC gives you the advantage of being very choosy and thus bring home the best PC. Assembled PC simply means you assemble part and peripherals of various international brands to make 1 PC. let me help you with an example. a normal branded PC would be available to you for a price of approx 35 to 40, 000/-(15inch CRT monitor no multimedia) lets see what you can do with this kind of money
You can also use the following configuration in case you are planning to buy a PC
Intel 915 G motherboard(3 to 5 years manufacturer warrenty)
Intel 2.4 GHZ processor(3 to 5 years manufacturer warrenty)
512 MB DDR 400MHZ module Ram
80 GB Sata Harddisk(5 years manufacturer warrenty)
DVD CD combo drive(Sony or Samsung 1 year warrenty)
400 W P4 cabinet(iball)
Samsung LCD monitor(3years warrenty)
Samsung Keyboard & Iball Mouse
Altec Lansing 2.1 Speakers
Nvedia 128MB AGP display card
if prices havent changed much(Last checked 45 days ago) then you can get the above configuration for a price of Rs 35 to 40, 000/-. Branded PC with a LCD monitor & multimedia would be available at a price varying from 45 to 55K which is much higher than an assembled machine+ there would be a fleet of octroi & vat applicable as most of Branded machines have their assembly unit outside the cities. the way computer hardware market have evolved people selling PC’s are very much dependent on Post sales service so you can hope to get good services even if you buy assembled PC. Post sales service for Branded Machines after warrenty is much higher than assembled machines as official engineers tend to service you. I hope my this post comes handy for all people planning to buy a machine