> And lo on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:57:38 -0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did 
> spake, saying:
> 
>>>> Oh, "only" $3,000. Bargin. ;-)
>>>  Well, the $3000 covers dual power supplies, hardware raid, dual 
>>> giabit ethernet, rack-mount, a year of Linux support from Novel, dual 
>>> SATA 500G hard drives, 16G of RAM, four dual-core 2.<mumble> CPUs...
>>>  Yeah, not too bad.
>>
>> That's actually quite good.
>>

>> and it doesn't have half that stuff.
>>
>> OTOH, Phil was complaining that you can't buy desktop machines that 
>> slot together like lego. And I countered that you *can* buy such 
>> equipment, it's just far too expensive to use as a desktop. ;-)
> 
> Succinctly put thank you. The whole thing is why hasn't the 
> slot-together style reached down into the standard market, and if it did 
> how would that affect 'normal' users' computer buying patterns. Instead 
> of buying an entire new computer would they instead opt to upgrade the 
> old one because it's a piece of cake to do.
> 
> I mean seriously I've listened to friends talking about upgrading their 
> entire computer to get more speed out of a game or something when all 
> they need to do is switch the video card (or *to* a video card rather 
> then the MB GPU). To them the computer is a lump like a television, 
> opening the case doesn't occur to them and I don't think they'd be 
> enthused by what they'd find if they did.

And that's good for us geeks who then find their old computer on their 
trash.

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