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<blockquote data-quote="terence_fdes" data-source="post: 1819555" data-attributes="member: 39628"><p>Honestly - I do not know of any <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /> Will check with my CA - as I hand over all my accounts over to him (society's).</p><p> </p><p><em>Incidently, I forgot to mention that I also do the "treasurer's" job (apart from being a secretary). Ours is a huge complex of 34 bldgs & each bldg manages it's own a/cs separately; however each bldg also has one nominee [in our case the treasurer who has to go for weekly meetings of the central committee as I find that impossible to manage]</em></p><p> </p><p>Consensus is moving towards an AIO - again, I have no experience with them. These are relatively new things. I look at them as extended versions of Laptops.... and all having a lifespan of 3-4 years only. Maintenance is high (not like our normal assembled ones). Unless one goes in for a very high end/quality AIO - where good build peripherals are used (eg Apple iMac). The rest in the budget of 25-40k use oem/low-branded stuff. "Looks" should never be a deciding factor in this case at least.</p><p> </p><p>Society financial decisions & deliberations are often "penny-wise pound foolish".</p><p> </p><p>I've had my AMD Athlon 1800 run for 9 years -ONLY because at that time - each and every component that I picked was the "best" (the only thing that conked ooff was the DVD drive after 4 years; I did no further upgrade). During these years, I have witnessed countless systems of friends and family who spend half or just 1/4th of what I had spend & all of whose systems barely lasted them 2-4 years. This includes laptops. Some of them even had to go for completely new builds 3 times in the lifespan that I used my earlier system.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="terence_fdes, post: 1819555, member: 39628"] Honestly - I do not know of any :( Will check with my CA - as I hand over all my accounts over to him (society's). [I]Incidently, I forgot to mention that I also do the "treasurer's" job (apart from being a secretary). Ours is a huge complex of 34 bldgs & each bldg manages it's own a/cs separately; however each bldg also has one nominee [in our case the treasurer who has to go for weekly meetings of the central committee as I find that impossible to manage][/I] Consensus is moving towards an AIO - again, I have no experience with them. These are relatively new things. I look at them as extended versions of Laptops.... and all having a lifespan of 3-4 years only. Maintenance is high (not like our normal assembled ones). Unless one goes in for a very high end/quality AIO - where good build peripherals are used (eg Apple iMac). The rest in the budget of 25-40k use oem/low-branded stuff. "Looks" should never be a deciding factor in this case at least. Society financial decisions & deliberations are often "penny-wise pound foolish". I've had my AMD Athlon 1800 run for 9 years -ONLY because at that time - each and every component that I picked was the "best" (the only thing that conked ooff was the DVD drive after 4 years; I did no further upgrade). During these years, I have witnessed countless systems of friends and family who spend half or just 1/4th of what I had spend & all of whose systems barely lasted them 2-4 years. This includes laptops. Some of them even had to go for completely new builds 3 times in the lifespan that I used my earlier system. [/QUOTE]
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