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Manufacturers of personal computers face competitive challenges on two broad fronts: fierce price competition that limits the top line, and customer support and service costs that can erode the bottom line.

Price competition is an uncontrollable and unrelenting reality that sharply depresses revenue per unit. Consider that in 2002 only 20 percent of all Personal Computers (PCs) sold for less than $1,000; in 2005, more than 50 percent sold below the $1,000 mark. Meanwhile, the number of higher-margin PCs that sell for more than $1,500 is rapidly declining from nearly 30 percent in 2002 to fewer than 10 percent in 2005.

Unfortunately, service and support costs have not kept pace with declining prices. Despite off-shore help desk organizations and streamlined repair processes, service and support costs run from 1.5 to 3 percent of revenue for many major PC corporations, as reflected in their published warranty accruals.

The effect of these opposing forces on margins and profitability is dramatic. Net earnings of less than two percent are not uncommon among PC manufacturers and their PC divisions.

For more than a dozen years, PC-Doctor, Inc. has worked with major PC manufacturers to reduce avoidable service and support costs, especially the unnecessary expenses associated with Out Of Box Failures (OOBFs) and No Trouble Found (NTF) returns. NTF return costs are unnecessary because accurate, current, and consistent diagnostic tests and diagnostic processes can help distinguish between hardware failures that require expensive repairs or returns and software or other issues that can often be resolved without incurring return or repair expenses.

The Company

PC-Doctor, Inc., a privately held corporation headquartered in Reno, Nevada, is the leading global provider of diagnostic and system information solutions to the personal-computing industry. The company's products are acknowledged by PC industry leaders as the de facto standard for diagnostic solutions used by manufacturers, support organizations, repair facilities, and end users to reduce costs, improve quality, and increase customer satisfaction.

Since its founding in 1993 in Emeryville, California, PC-Doctor has accumulated a vast library of intellectual property, including multiple patents that the company deploys in products and services across the PC life-cycle. Today, more than three-quarters of the company's 80-plus people are employed in software development, quality assurance, and customer-facing roles, underscoring the PC-Doctor commitment to innovation, quality, and customer satisfaction. One of the company's major initiatives is the Certified Hardware Vendor (CHV™) program that seeks to standardize diagnostics used across the industry and encourages manufacturers to add their own tests to PC-Doctor products.

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The Product Families

PC-Doctor's product families are relied upon by leading of PCs and PC-based products, including Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Fujitsu, and Gateway, as well as major service providers such as Circuit City and Solectron. Key to the company's success is a uniform nucleus of diagnostic tests and system information tools called the Modular Core Technology (MCT™) — that delivers diagnostic consistency and continuity across the design, manufacturing, support, and service phases of the PC life-cycle. The MCT diagnostics are delivered in these product families:

• Home & Small Office products: Everyday end-users at home and in small businesses can now use the same PC diagnostics and other system-health solutions that four of the Top 5 PC manufacturers ship with their PCs. Easy to learn and simple to use!
• PC Service Professionals products: Top tools for professionals in their shop or on the road! These are the same fast, accurate and up-to-date PC diagnostics and other system-health tools that ship each month on 2+ million PCs by the world’s most trusted manufacturers.
• Enterprise IT Organizations products: Get a handle on PC support and service costs in your company with PC diagnostics and other remote system-health solutions. Increase uptime for your users, reduce costly desk-side visits, and improve visibility into PC expenses.
• Factories & Hi-Volume Repair products: Automated, production-proven hardware tests and other PC-health tools reduce warranty costs and improve quality in factories and at high-volume repair depots. Total support for CTO/BTO, high-volume, and high-value strategies!