Comments sent by me to Zawya.com Members

ABOUT DELL & RELATED SERVICES IN RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA

Well, as far dell is concerned, I've a good experience with Dell, I'm an IT consultant and worked in many Saudi organizations until now in the IT sector itself, where ever I placed dell desktops I never heard any complains, even for my own use I prefer dell computers, as far the cost is concerned, I think it's a lot cheaper and affordable if you compare to competitive brands. The problem we sometimes face in Saudi (especially in Riyadh) is that, if something goes wrong, for instance, if a notebook's charger is damaged and not working we've to spin ourselves in whole city in all major computer related sites and if we get a charger we'll be in doubt that whether it's original or second quality, there is a huge impact of brands like Dell in the market, until now I didn't find any specified and dedicated maintenance center or some kind of regional show case with maintenance opportunities in Riyadh from Dell's side, if you see HP, you'll find too many authorized maintenance center right in the city center with other computer shops, consumers are smarter than before, people buy that product which has the best service available (regional). Now technical people always recommend Dell notebooks, desktops, servers for enterprises but a normal user always thinks that HP support is available easily so let's buy HP it looks better than Dell. So the impact of service centers and regional centers on the consumers is too much, especially in Saudi community, users like the product which is marketed more often. As Dell is one of the oldest and major computer manufacturer they must think and get out of the eBusiness world, they should open centers in public places where majority of computer consumers lies.


COMPARISON BETWEEN APPLE'S MAC & WINDOWS BASED PCs

There's one more thing I would like to say is that, I don't understand why people compare Apple Mac and a Windows based PC, whatever Mac is and whatever Windows is today, no one should compare it. Let's talk in a way too advance level prospectus. The future of computer world is Web based applications and centralized virtualization servers to provide services to all end-user peers. Now the point is, would an asp.net developer buy a Mac? would IIS server run on Apple computers? would a security analyst use a Mac for security measures? Windows is way too advanced, two-way sync. in different versions of Windows? Unicode support? Built-in powerful firewalls? Okay lets keep it precise, before 2 years, I was a great fan of Apple when it comes to designing, but now when I'm running a Quad-core with 64bit Windows with up to 16GBs of RAM, do you think me as a developer or programmer would to switch to a Mac for designing? Real example; I use designing applications, MS Visual Studio, word processing software, browsing on multiple browsers, e-mail client, chatting clients, and so forth at a same time! with superb speed! I can run other operating systems virtually on this Windows machine how about that?... My point to all this long discussion is that, there is no comparison of Apple's Mac with any of the MS Windows based machines, Mac has it's own value in Media, and Windows has it's own Value in a lot of other stuff than just Media. And Apple's theory; the more you get richer, the more our products get cheaper to you. Where as Microsoft say, Okay? are you a student? verify your university I'll give you up to 90% discount!! How's that?...



No offense, I'm a Mac & a Windows user. Cheers!