Hi John. In a lot of cases, same is true over
here. But it's still possible to save if, for
instance, the box is a drop-in replacement. And
as for Del PC's, they're an insult to a user's
intelligence. All those bells and whistles that
you'll never use. I just did some component
price checking. I could built a bear-bones
system for just over £100, and that's half of the
cheapest system on the Del site ... and better
specs. That's as a replacement, of course. But
Mac-world is a lot different I'd imagine. I've
never delved into the DIY Mac world, so it'd be wrong of me to comment.
At 23:14 29/04/2006 -0400, JOHN PANARESE said:
It's interesting because when I first got into business,
building PCs was a fairly common undertaking for me, and it sure was
a lot more cost affective than buying full systems. The thing is,
over the last four years, the bottom has fallen out of the PC system
market in the states. You can buy full Dell systems for under $500
now. I guess if you realy know where to look, you might still save a
few bucks doing the do it yourself things, but for the Windows system
that I am using now and was built in January, it was more expensive
than an off the shelf system. Perhaps the prices are different
overseas, but from my recollection of pricing components, I am
inclined to think that I'd just buy a full system for a customer now
unless they specifically requested a DYI system.
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