Mesh Computers in administration
UK-based PC manufacturer closed its doors yesterday after 24 years of trading.
While the Mesh website currently remains live, the Mesh board of directors reportedly decided that placing the company in administration was the best course of action, ‘following a thorough review of the financial position of Mesh Computers.’
MacIntyre Hudson states that ‘an offer made by PC Peripherals to purchase certain assets of Mesh Computers was accepted on 31 May 2011, and we are now responsible for all future business formerly belonging to Mesh Computers.’
If you've placed an order with Mesh via credit card, and have not received the goods or services, MacIntyre Hudson says you should ‘contact your credit card provider immediately to discuss the possibility of a refund.’ If you paid by cheque or debit card, you should fill out a Proof of Debt form in order to make a claim.
The administrator also says that anyone with Mesh warranties should now contact PC Peripherals, as this company ‘has agreed to provide hardware support to existing customers who are within the original warranty period.’
The move has been blamed on the recent recession and also the rise in popularity of iPads and other tablet devices over laptops. No-one knows what PC Peripherals intends to do with the Mesh name, but the owner and director of the company told our sister site PC Pro that the acquisition is 'an excellent platform from which to develop our business.’
After Evesham went into administration in 2007, Mesh was the last of the UK's large-scale independent PC builders. Is the PC market dramatically changing, and how much of an impact have tablets really had on demand for desktop PCs? Let us know your thoughts in the forums.
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Discuss in the forums ReplyI've hated them ever since.
Shame to see one of the last British system builders of note go tits up though.
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XP Pro x64. That's how.
+1, my initial thoughts were 'again?'
I teach IT to adults, and it's staggering how many people who come on courses because they were bought cheap laptops by their families for Christmas but don't know how to use them.
Laptops have become commoditised.
No complaints, think i paid about £600 for it in 05/06
Still going strong to my knowledge.
It was decent enough and lasted, but then I learnt how to build them myself and never looked at buying from them again. My biggest beef with them was that it took ages to build and deliver!
Sad they are gone, but the writing is on the wall for UK PC manufacturers.... companies in China etc who pay their staff 5p an hour have become the world's factories now.
Incidentally there is an article in the 'July' issue of PC PRO about why UK PC Manufacturers are still the best. I noticed then that Mesh was strangely absent from the article... not one mention.
But did you not choose to buy it with XP 64bit?
Bought a new HTPC and got a used unit. Got it replaced (But had to go to MESH head office to get it), but this was even worse, it even had the delivery note from it being a magazine review unit still in the box.
I eventually got a brand new unit direct from ASUS (Another trip to a different UK head office).
Ouch.
My pc from theme still going strong and use it everyday for games and media.
Just to follow up on this point - desktop PCs have been in decline due to Laptop sales for years, Tablets aren't really having an impact.
To illustrate, when looking at physical and generalist online retailers (so excluding computer specialst online retailers), in the last twelve months the UK spent the following on computers:
Laptops (inc. Netbooks): £2,680 million
Tablets: £276 million
Desktop PCs: £971 million
Good riddance.
P.S. My first PC was a TIny - it was a 486 Overdrive mis-sold as a Pentium 75 :-)
I think not - what about Novatech still going strong!!