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Beach Web Design Shop: Computer Equipment for Home Offices
Welcome, and thank you for visiting my website shop. I'd like this to be a useful reference for anyone who's thinking of starting a website, as well as hopefully making us the occasional commission! My customers are mostly small businesses and startups (like me), so I've featured companies and products they might find good value and useful. If there's another type of product you'd like to see investigated and reviewed here, or something you'd like to recommend, please contact me and I'll see what I can do.
I was very pleased to discover this website.
Misco.co.uk has a good range of deals on computers, software, PDAs, cameras, phones and other electronic equipment.
Dell
Dell. The first computer I ever had at work was from Dell and I never had problems with it. Which is more than I can say for the second computer I had at work that wasn't from Dell and caught fire while I was on my lunch break.
Apple
Apple Store. They're keen to plug iTunes, but I like their computers, especially the see-through ones.
Hewlett Packard
Hewlett Packard. For a while I lived in Silicon Valley at the height of the dot com boom. (And no, somehow we didn't get rich, in fact for a short time we lived in our truck). But what an adventure - and what a fantastic world that was! And while I was there I happened to meet the wife of one of the founding members of Hewlett Packard, who was using some of the money they made to set up a programme called Redwood City School Volunteers. I volunteered for summer school with that programme, reading with the children and so on. So I still always want Hewlett Packard to do well.
Dabs.com
Highly recommended for buying computer equipment cheaply online.
Partmaster. If you've got any equipment that needs parts replacing or upgrading, the Partmaster website looks very handy to me.
The next piece of computer equipment we're planning to buy is the Western Digital MyBook 250GB external hard drive, which will be used for data storage and regular backups of Beach Web Design's hosted websites.
Misco
I've been having a look around the Misco website, and within 5 minutes found a camera I was looking at in the High Street this afternoon for £30 less, a computer for less than £300 and a phone / answerphone in the clearance section that looks like an ideal replacement for ours. So I would recommend Misco.
Here's a system PC World offers for backing up data on a smaller scale:
Thank you for visiting Beach Web Design. Due to relocation, I am not taking on new work at the moment.
If you are setting up a website, I can strongly recommend Heart Internet, who have provided all my web hosting, for good value, reliability and excellent technical support. I also recommend the book 'Small Business Websites That Work', which is full of good advice for website owners.