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Darren New <dne### [at] san rrcom> wrote:
> Yes. I always get funny looks from the people at the local electronics
> warehouse stores when I go to buy a prebuilt system and I ask them to open
> several up so I can look inside.
I have linked this before, but I can't resist:
http://megatokyo.com/strip/650
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- Warp
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Aydan wrote:
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> I only ever had one prebuilt system and that was in '94.
> After that I always bought individual parts or had the system built to spec, so
> I know what exactly is in there.
> Also it's sorta fun to built your own PC.
>
My only pre-built PC-system is this laptop I'm currently using. There's
a certain reason why it's pre-built ;).
Also all the weird stuff is naturally pre-built - Compaq Alphaserver,
Sun computers, SGI...
-Aero
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Eero Ahonen <aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid> wrote:
> My only pre-built PC-system is this laptop I'm currently using. There's
> a certain reason why it's pre-built ;).
Btw, does it count as "pre-built" if the shop builds the PC according
to the customer's specification? In other words, rather than buying an
existing PC from the shelf, the customer buys a set of components and the
shop builds the PC from them afterwards.
If that doesn't count as pre-built, then I suppose I have never bought
a pre-built system.
I have never actually just bought the parts and built the system myself,
though. However, I have transferred all the stuff from inside one PC case
to another, and I have built a PC from parts of two existing ones.
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- Warp
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Aydan wrote:
> I only ever had one prebuilt system and that was in '94.
> After that I always bought individual parts or had the system built to spec, so
> I know what exactly is in there.
> Also it's sorta fun to built your own PC.
I did that until I had to start trying to figure out which of the dozens of
types of RAM went with which of the dozens of types of CPUs and motherboards
and etc. :-) Right around when they started coming up with AGP and such, I
think.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Insanity is a small city on the western
border of the State of Mind.
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Warp wrote:
> If that doesn't count as pre-built, then I suppose I have never bought
> a pre-built system.
*I* wouldn't count it as pre-built unless it's mass produced and comes with
an OEM warranty. :-) Most of my custom-built machines I had a friend build
for me who does (or at least did) that sort of thing for a living.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Insanity is a small city on the western
border of the State of Mind.
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Darren New wrote:
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> I did that until I had to start trying to figure out which of the dozens
> of types of RAM went with which of the dozens of types of CPUs and
> motherboards and etc. :-) Right around when they started coming up with
> AGP and such, I think.
>
Yeah, and get the wrong combo and watch your performance go into the
toilet....
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~Mike
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