Re: [Avid-L2] ROI period for equipment... #OffTopic #post

Andi,

one other thing to confirm that the rental price on the Mac won't go up.

I can't see new MacPros renting for the same rate as the 7 year old towers.

rob

On Sep 17, 2020, at 11:56 AM, Rupert Watson <rupertwatson@gmail.com> wrote:

Andi, £16,500 over five years is about £63.50 a week on my calculator. So it will cost you about £22.5K more to rent than to buy (over five years). That will buy you a lot of Genelec speakers, Avid keyboards and GUI monitors. 

 

On 17/09/2020, 19:46, "Avid-L2@groups.io" <Avid-L2@groups.io> wrote:

I'm in the process of discussing new gear with the company I am working for and we are weighing up the benefits of owning over renting. They're looking to buy 2 new Mac Pro 2019 towers and a 2019 Macbook Pro. Only looking at very conservatively spec'd machines still comes out around £16.5k ($21k-ish). I'm just wondering, what do others see as a good time period for ROI of assets like this? Even over a period of 5 years, 16.5k would still work out to be more expensive than renting the equipment on a weekly basis from a hire company (we get a very good deal with them). Adding on to that, all of the support that the hire company provides (which is first class) would vanish and they would be required to look after the equipment themselves, which I think is a terrible idea as they are just a production company with no dedicated post department or tech staff other than I.T. guys with no post background. They'd also be locked in to those machines for as long as they have them rather than taking advantage of updated hardware each time the hire company upgrades it's kit.

My initial response to hearing they wanted to buy rather than rent was "Why?" but maybe I'm missing something and wondered what others' thoughts on the matter were? 

For some reference the hire company charges us £50/week each for one Macbook and two MacPro (2013) towers currently, so £150/week for all three. All with MC Ultimate installed and all with full support. These also come with all peripherals (genelec speakers, mouse/keyboard, 2 x GUI monitors and various connectors). The only thing they don't provide is a client monitor and BOB which we don't need anyway. For me that seems like an amazing deal.

Thanks for any thoughts,

Andi