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Submitted by Sharkull on Wed, 2006-05-31 00:05


I'm kind of envious of the money saved by people who build their own computers from parts, but it's just not my thing... The time and effort to properly research component architecture / specs / compatibility, shopping, building, installing... is simply more than I'm willing to put into a system. It would be a chore to me, not fun and I don't mind spending a few extra $'s for the service of a large vendor to do all that stuff for me (plus the security of support / warranty...). Sure, I research the options to make sure I get a system I like, and that it will be useful for a long time afterwards, but that's about as far as my interest takes me... I've also learned that life on the bleeding edge of technology can be quite painful (in more than just financial ways...).

Random thoughts inspired by yesterday's PCMag Tip of the Day:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1962371,00.asp

Now if only vendors would stop installing useless bloatware on their machine's... :P

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...they must have midgets as the target audience as I cant really fit in to them so well. I rememeber when I was buying my first car they guy at one car lot was pimping this VW but when I tried to sit in the drivers seat my one leg was jammed up against the dash and my other one was actually squeezed up against the steering wheel.

I had an almost identical experience... but the salesman urged me to squeeze my 6'3" frame into an Eagle Talon (a small sporty car...). Afterwards I suspected that is was a sales technique, in order to make the next car he showed me look that much better (it worked... I bought car #2, a mid-size sedan).
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