You wouldn't think that it would be very hard these days to purchase high specification computers for business.
Without going off shore, HP New Zealand was the only major brand from our distributor sources willing to build small numbers of desktop computers to our high end specification. This truly put a smile on our faces. Here is the largest supplier of computer equipment to NZ prepared to respond to, what is on their on their scale of things, a relatively minor order, possibly considered by others as an inconvenience.
The upside of course is repeat orders and an even greater respect for HP.
Now a lot of Kiwis (New Zealanders for you overseas folk) still have the 'can do it ourselves' attitude and wherever possible endeavour to preserve our clean and green environment.
In the US TerraCycle are doing the same. Here’s a company Turning Garbage into Gold by adopting HP Technology in-house to run their business systems right down to printing, marketing, packaging and retail displays etc. Environmentally they actually re-use soft drink bottles to distribute their product ... but don’t let me spoil it.
Click on this link http://www.hp.com/personalagain/us/en/featuredproducts/landing/terracycle_nc6400.html
and view the TV Advert which we believe only plays on TV in the US. If you do not wish to use the link go direct to www.hp.com/personal and search for the TerraCycle advert. His story even includes the personal touch.
Wouldn’t it be great if we could achieve even some of their objectives? Makes you think doesn't it?
Oh and the computers were HP dc7700 with high end processors, Vista compatible ATI Radeon dual monitor graphics cards and other desirable end user components that we won’t tell the boss about. Talk about HP “Making the Computer Personal Again”. Ok, we had to wait 10 days for these to be specifically built and delivered to our door but that was really not a problem.