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We originally started our company to provide a business entity through which to develop and commercialize database products. Our first product was a patient tracking system for a local hospital using Ashton Tate's dBASE software as the foundation. We continue to develop custom database applications using Microsoft's FoxPro, Microsoft’s Visual FoxPro, or Microsoft’s Access to meet our customer's specific needs.
After hearing one horror story after another from friends and acquaintances about quality and performance issues relating to PCs they've purchased either from some local "white box" supplier or from some "big box" company, we decided to also build PCs for our customers, and to build them using only quality components suited to their specified needs. We do NOT use OEM* hardware parts manufactured specifically to increase our profit margin, but use only quality components having their original "full-up" capabilities and warrantees as provided by the original product's manufacturers. These are "off-the-shelf" manufactured parts with manufacturer's original warranties and specifications.
What Can HLS Systems, Inc. Do For You?
HLS Systems, Inc. purchases genuine manufacturer's brand-name parts having their full-up manufacture's stated capabilities through our distributors and uses them to build customized personal computers, PCs, each uniquely different and suited to our customer’s specific computing needs. HLS Systems, Inc. purchases and installs only the latest, state-of-the-art brand name components having full manufacturer's warrantees. In part what this means is that you can go to the product manufacturer's web site directly to download the latest drivers for their products installed in your HLS Systems built PC, as opposed to having to go to the company from whom you purchased your computer (Gateway, Dell, etc.) to download custom drivers for the degraded products (having OEM-sourced brand names attached to them) they provide in their systems. We use quality, recognized products from Intel (motherboards, CPUs, Chip Sets, etc.); memory from Crucial, Kingston, and other quality suppliers of RAM; Creative Labs audio products; Promise Technology RAID controllers; ATI, Matrox, and other brand name video cards utilizing nVidia chipsets; Maxtor, Seagate, and Western Digital hard drives along with KingWin removable hard drive systems; IOMEGA ZIP Drive products; Plextor CD-ROM drives; Pioneer DVD, DVD- R/RW combo Reader/Players; and cases from many sources including Antec (from which we also purchase our upgraded power supplies), Kingwin, and CoolerMaster to name just a few. Our case selection considers the new Intel Thermally Advantaged Case (TAC) specifications to ensure adequate cooling of the PC's internal components. As a result of using these as well as other select quality components, it is rare to have our PCs come back to us for repair as a result of hardware failures! We want our products to spend their time on your computer desk...not our workbench! That's why we choose to use quality components from name-brand manufacturers, and that's what makes our custom computing platform products "worth their price!"
Forget about paying others to do simple tasks such as the periodic updating of your web site fresh content, and having to work with their timelines instead of yours! Consulting services SOHO Support Custom Digital Graphics Video/Slide ShowProductions (Web, CD, or DVD-based) Bubble Imaging (2D or 3D Panoramics) Independent (Personal)Weather Station Setups Hard Drive Data Recovery *OEM: "Original Equipment Manufacturer" parts. "An OEM (original equipment manufacturer) is a company that uses product components from one or more other companies to build a product that it sells under its own company name and brand. (The term is sometimes mistakenly used to refer to the company that supplies the components.) IBM is an example of a supplier to the OEM market (and IBM is also an OEM itself since it uses other companies' parts in some of its products). Many computer hardware manufacturers [Intel, ATI, etc.] that have their own brand-name products derive considerable revenue by reselling the product or key parts of it to OEM companies that seem to be competing in the same market. Many OEM companies are selling a "solution" tailored to a particular vertical market."
the same modHere's the issue: A large PC manufacturer XYZ advertises, for example, that an "ATI All-In-Wonder" video card is installed in their PCs. What company XYZ does is to contract with ATI to build thousands of these video cards for their PCs. However, to hold their cost down in order to maximize their profits, there may be features that are disabled, are of lesser quality, diminished in terms of performance, or not even included...as opposed to the ATI card of the SAME name that you would buy off-the-shelf or directly from the manufacturer (supplier) of the card. Bottom line, that "mouse port" included with the video card may not be there on the OEM version of the card! Or, the OEM-version sound chip on your audio card may not implement all of the synthesized features you had expected to be there! A way to know whether or not your installed components are OEM parts in this sense is to find out who warrants the product and where you need to go to download updated drivers should you upgrade your operating system. If company XYZ warrants the parts (and/or provides the driver updates)...then these parts are more than likely "OEM." IF, on the other hand, ATI warrants your video card as well as provides the drivers for their product, then you know for sure you have an "original" version of that particular manufacturer's video card. If Gateway, for example, warrants el number card and provides the drivers then it is an "OEM" product.
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