Hi Gordon,
Good points. Yes, I am no fan of Dell either. I've heard so many
horror stories from both individual and corporate users about HD failures
and other annoyances right out of the box. When you put that into
perspective, regardless of a few bucks, it's still a better value to build a
system yourself in the Windows world.
As I said, I don't do it much any more, so I haven't really gone beyond
the research for the system I am using, which is pretty much a high end job
that ran me about $800 in total when all was said and done.
I also have no idea what the costs are by comparison for a Mac system
done from scratch. I'd be curious to hear of future findings.
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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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