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Prebuilt systems suck compared to those you craft yourself, at least at the high end. We've got a guy here at work who's been fighting a boutique vendor for six weeks now - he finally got fed up and is sending his machine back for a refund. He's going to build his own, like I was telling him all along. People are afraid of doing it - I'm telling you Yaks, you could certainly build your own. It's not rocket science - at least not until you're trying to strap LN2 cooling onto it, anyway.
Now that we have a desktop, I only use my old laptop when I am on the road for work and such.
And yet I still want to spend a lot of money on a new laptop.
I get e-mails from Dell almost every day. They really, really want to sell me a lightweight laptop. And they have a new tablet-convertible to try with, too.
Prebuilt systems suck compared to those you craft yourself, at least at the high end. We've got a guy here at work who's been fighting a boutique vendor for six weeks now - he finally got fed up and is sending his machine back for a refund. He's going to build his own, like I was telling him all along. People are afraid of doing it - I'm telling you Yaks, you could certainly build your own. It's not rocket science - at least not until you're trying to strap LN2 cooling onto it, anyway.
I have built several of my own, the one I am now is a madyaks creation.
I was just lookin, I keep going back and forth about building another or buying one.
Just seeing what's out there.
Be passionate about what you believe in, or why bother.
I am saving up for a CNN interactive monitor. Only $99,950 to go.
Put $100/month in a savings account. The price will continue dropping, and your account will grow, and the two will meet somewhere in the middle. And it'll be sooner than you think.
Dell Dimension XPS T700r: $2659; PC WorldBench score of 373, Pentium III-700, 128MB of RAM, 256KB L2 cache, 20.4GB hard drive, 17-inch monitor, Windows NT 4.0, Diamond Viper V770 Ultra graphics board with 32MB of RAM, 4X CD-RW drive, V.90 modem, network card, Iomega Zip 100 drive.
CyberMax Enthusiast A700W: $2299; PC WorldBench score of 288, AMD Athlon-700, 128MB of RAM, 512KB L2 cache, 27.3GB hard drive, 19-inch monitor, Windows 98 SE, 3dfx Voodoo 3 3500 TV AGP graphics board with 16MB of RAM, 8X DVD-ROM drive, V.90 modem, Iomega Zip 100 drive.
Compaq Prosignia 330 PIII-550: $2111; PC WorldBench score of 246, Pentium III-550, 128MB RAM, 512KB L2 cache, 20GB hard drive, 19-inch monitor, Windows 98, Diamond NVidia Vanta graphics board with 16MB of RAM, 12X-52X CD-ROM drive, V.90 modem, Iomega Zip 250 drive, Microsoft IntelliMouse.
Quantex SM600 SE: $2099; PC WorldBench score of 260, Pentium III-600, 128MB of RAM, 512KB L2 cache, 18GB hard drive, 19-inch monitor, Windows 98, NVidia RIVA TNT2 Ultra graphics card with 32MB of RAM, 8X DVD-ROM drive, V.90 modem, network card, ergonomic keyboard, Microsoft IntelliMouse.
IBM PC 300PL: $2081; PC WorldBench score of 232, Pentium III-500, 128MB of RAM, 512KB L2 cache, 13GB hard drive, 19-inch monitor, Windows 98, S3 Trio Voodoo3 2000 Interactive graphics board with 16MB of RAM, 17X-40X CD-ROM drive, network card, Iomega Zip 100 drive, Microsoft IntelliMouse.
Micron Millennia Max 600: $2301; PC WorldBench score of 254, Pentium III-600, 128MB of RAM, 512KB L2 cache, 13.6GB hard drive, 19-inch monitor, Windows 98 SE, NVidia GeForce 256 graphics board with 32MB of RAM, 8X DVD-ROM drive, V.90 modem.
Polywell 800K7-650: $2295; PC WorldBench score of 277, AMD Athlon-650, 128MB of RAM, 512KB L2 cache, 27GB hard drive, 19-inch monitor, Windows 98 SE, Diamond Viper V770 graphics board with 16MB of RAM, 6X DVD-ROM drive, V.90 modem, Iomega Zip 100 drive, Logitech three-button mouse.
Axis Systems Orion 100A DVD: $2207; PC WorldBench score of 241, Pentium III-550, 256MB of RAM, 512KB L2 cache, 22GB hard drive, 19-inch monitor, Windows 98 SE, Diamond Viper V770 graphics board with 32MB of RAM, 6X DVD-ROM drive, 4X CD-RW drive, V.90 modem, Iomega Zip 100 drive, Microsoft IntelliMouse.
Micron Millennia Max 733: $2769; PC WorldBench score of 309, Pentium III-733, 128MB of RAM, 256KB L2 cache, 20.5GB hard drive, 19-inch monitor, Windows 98 SE, NVidia GeForce 256 graphics board with 32MB of RAM, 8X DVD-ROM drive, V.90 modem.
Sys Performance 600A: $2299; PC WorldBench score of 345, AMD Athlon-600, 128MB of RAM, 512KB L2 cache, two 9.1GB hard drives, 17-inch monitor, Windows NT 4.0, Matrox Millennium G400 DH graphics board with 32MB of RAM, 17X-40X CD-ROM drive, network card, scroll mouse, RAID and two hard drives.
Be passionate about what you believe in, or why bother.
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