Oct 12, 2015 11:26 AM
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Branded or assembled.it is a dilemma that the great indian middle class( which I am a part of)has always been.
This has become a more pertinent question since the price slashes in the PC segment announced in the previous budgets .Earlier Home PC's were the realm of the upper class as they cost 50k or more.But now Branded PC is within everyone's reach.
But the question in itself, according to me itself is very relative.
When one says a branded PC, many companies which come in this list are Zenith, LG, Wipro, Patni, Sahara(?Apparently the chairman of the Sahara Group
had gone to South Africa and there was a small company coincidently called Sahara which manufactured Desktop PC's, he decide to Buy it and this is how the Sahara'Branded'PC was Born).these companies donot even deserve to be categorised as Branded PC manufacturors.
What they do is essentially assemble the PC by integrating the various the components.They donot have any domain experience in this field, no R&D.No testing of compatabilty between the various components which I think should be done as thay are from different manufacturors.So they are also prone to the same problems as the Assembled PC's namely frequent crashes, slowly degrading performance and non reliability.
The consumer is lured into entering a mad rat race for more RAM, Bigger harddisks, fancy chipsets etc.Features which PC's promise today are absolutely not required in an Average Home PC.Hell these features would even be more than enough for high end applications like Animations, CAD, game programming etc.
So what I suggest is donot enter into a mad rush for the biggest, fastest and the costliest(which is a typical indian mentality), Go for a proven and stable configuration or architecture which would satiete the basic requirements of an average home PC viz. good speed, ruggedness to handle electricity variations .
