Solve : Systemax - Where Are You??

1.	Solve : Systemax - Where Are You??
Answer» I am presently using my third Systemax PC. I chose (was lured to) Systemax by the fact that they were a "made and operating in the USA company". I have had excellent performance from the units, and only changed each after a few years as I wanted newer, faster, and more powerful. My two previous Systemax towers are STILL chugging away with friends with only modest needs for surfing and email. Now Systemax seems to have vanished as a consumer supplier. Does anyone know why? They axed their consumer PC business, including their CompUSA and Circuit City brands, in late 2012, FOLLOWING poor financial performance in the 3rd quarter of that year. Their sales for the quarter ended 28 September 2012, dropped 5.99 per cent compared with the same period in 2011. The business-to-business part of the company CONTINUED to be a growth engine, particularly in Europe. B2B revenue was up four per cent year-on-year to $526.8m, but sales from Systemax's consumer unit in North America fell 19 per cent. A quick search shows that company is still in business. The stuff is solid by Tiger Direct and others. And they have their own website. http://www.systemax.com/ My limited personal experience with them is not positive. May I SUGGEST you buy a system made by a company that has a larger part of the Desktop market. Here are seven. Apple Acer Dell Falcon Gateway HP Samsung Alphabetical order. And there are some I forgot. Falcon is a gaming computer company.Quote from: Geek-9pm on September 30, 2013, 11:27:46 AM A quick search shows that company is still in business. The stuff is solid by Tiger Direct and others. And they have their own website. http://www.systemax.com/ Like I said, they axed their consumer PC factory (Which is what the OP was asking about). They are mainly B2B now. "Falcon" ? ? REALLY ?Quote from: patio on September 30, 2013, 03:35:15 PM "Falcon" ? ? Really ? Falcon Northwest Fragbox http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J8_oo1cdfk Has new Haswell CPU They also stopped building and selling servers last year as well. They actually own Tiger Direct and Global Computer as well. Beginning of 2012 I bought 2 1u servers from Global. They were excellent servers and still use them. The beginning of 2013 I went to buy 2 more and my Global rep told me they shut down their manufacturing facility and quit building PCs all together. They appear to be around in name only now for hardware. They still have a software presence although I couldnt tell you what they offer.

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I am presently using my third Systemax PC. I chose (was lured to) Systemax by the fact that they were a "made and operating in the USA company". I have had excellent performance from the units, and only changed each after a few years as I wanted newer, faster, and more powerful. My two previous Systemax towers are STILL chugging away with friends with only modest needs for surfing and email.

Now Systemax seems to have vanished as a consumer supplier. Does anyone know why? They axed their consumer PC business, including their CompUSA and Circuit City brands, in late 2012, FOLLOWING poor financial performance in the 3rd quarter of that year. Their sales for the quarter ended 28 September 2012, dropped 5.99 per cent compared with the same period in 2011. The business-to-business part of the company CONTINUED to be a growth engine, particularly in Europe. B2B revenue was up four per cent year-on-year to $526.8m, but sales from Systemax's consumer unit in North America fell 19 per cent.

A quick search shows that company is still in business. The stuff is solid by Tiger Direct and others. And they have their own website.
http://www.systemax.com/

My limited personal experience with them is not positive.

May I SUGGEST you buy a system made by a company that has a larger part of the Desktop market. Here are seven.
Apple
Acer
Dell
Falcon
Gateway
HP
Samsung
Alphabetical order. And there are some I forgot. Falcon is a gaming computer company.Quote from: Geek-9pm on September 30, 2013, 11:27:46 AM

A quick search shows that company is still in business. The stuff is solid by Tiger Direct and others. And they have their own website.
http://www.systemax.com/

Like I said, they axed their consumer PC factory (Which is what the OP was asking about). They are mainly B2B now.

"Falcon" ? ?
REALLY ?Quote from: patio on September 30, 2013, 03:35:15 PM

"Falcon" ? ?
Really ?

Falcon Northwest Fragbox
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J8_oo1cdfk
Has new Haswell CPU
They also stopped building and selling servers last year as well.

They actually own Tiger Direct and Global Computer as well. Beginning of 2012 I bought 2 1u servers from Global. They were excellent servers and still use them. The beginning of 2013 I went to buy 2 more and my Global rep told me they shut down their manufacturing facility and quit building PCs all together.

They appear to be around in name only now for hardware. They still have a software presence although I couldnt tell you what they offer.

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