Custom hardware assembly for businesses in Nice

Four stages, and a single point of contact from end to end. Defining the requirement first: which software genuinely runs on the machine, how many files are open at once, what constraints of space, noise, heat or power apply in your premises. Then the choice of components, justified line by line. Then assembly and configuration: operating system, drivers, business software, accounts and rights, backup. Finally commissioning at your desk, with the data brought over from the old machine.

What you receive is therefore not a box to unpack but a machine ready to work, documented, and with every part identified — which changes everything the day one of them has to be replaced.

By looking at what genuinely holds the machine back, not at what sells best. Three kinds of use, three different answers. For office work and administration — accounts, quotations, email, a browser with twenty tabs — it is the disk and the memory that make the machine feel fast, far more than the processor. For design and imaging — CAD, drawings, retouching, video editing — the processor, the graphics card and the amount of memory become decisive, and the storage has to keep up on throughput. For heavy or multi-user business software, it is often the server and the network that need looking at before the workstations.

So we start from the list of software genuinely in use and from the vendors' own requirements, not from a product range. The budget is costed after that survey.

The question is settled by use, never by sales vocabulary. A workstation equips one person for their daily tasks. A heavier machine earns its place when a job demands sustained power: computation, rendering, large images, several environments open at once. A server answers a shared need: hosting the company's files, running a business application reachable from several machines, or consolidating several machines through virtualisation.

None of the three is chosen independently of the rest. A server assumes a sound foundation: a cabinet, backed-up power, a network sized for the job. That is the subject of our network infrastructure page, and it is why we often cost the two together.

This is the most concrete advantage of a machine built to order: it can be repaired part by part. A power supply, a disk, a memory module or a fan is replaced on its own, without taking the machine out of service or replacing it — where a sealed unit often means sending the whole thing back to a workshop. Each component keeps its own manufacturer's warranty, and the inventory we maintain says which one is still running, and until when.

We add no warranty of our own on top of the manufacturers': each part stays covered by its own, and we handle the warranty returns for you — you never have to argue with a manufacturer.

A new machine is only worth something once it is in production. Preparation happens at our premises: operating system installed and up to date, business software, printers, email, accounts and rights, backup connected. Deployment is scheduled outside critical hours, machine by machine or in waves, with data and settings brought over so that the user finds their environment again. Where several machines are involved they are prepared identically: that is what makes an estate consistent and maintainable.

The old hardware does not stay in a cupboard. Data is wiped before anything leaves the estate, and the equipment goes to the waste electrical and electronic equipment recycling channel. We take the old hardware back as part of the work.