Surprised yaks hasn't posted this yet...

[Airshark]

Apple introduces their new Penryn Macbook Pro.

http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=3240

[Bleacher Creature]

He's probably too busy turning cartwheels over the news that the world may freeze over with snow drifts over most rooftops.

[Turd Ferguson]

Why do they always release the new Ransits right after I buy one?

[Airshark]

Why do they always release the new Ransits right after I buy one?

Blame Apple and their stupid two-part banners.

[madyaks]

He's probably too busy turning cartwheels over the news that the world may freeze over with snow drifts over most rooftops.

[madyaks]

Busy looking at

[Airshark]

Busy looking at

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.

[kah]

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.

[Airshark]

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.

[madyaks]

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.

[Jaws]

I am saving up for a CNN interactive monitor. Only $99,950 to go.

[Airshark]

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.

[madyaks]

Top 10 power PCs for February 2000

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.

[Zythrst]

Is it worth building if you only want to spend 800$ or so?