Re: New PC: Build it or Buy it?
From: Steve N. (me_at_here.now)
Date: 02/10/05
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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:35:56 GMT
Leythos wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 03:15:33 +0000, Steve N. wrote:
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>>Leythos wrote:
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>>>On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 18:21:01 +0000, frodo wrote:
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>>>
>>>>For the same $$, you can always build a better system yourself. A $500
>>>>Dell could be built for $250, but you'd have to build it and service it
>>>>yourself (obviously). And "design" it, research it, order it, wait for
>>>>it, etc. Spend the original $500 and you'd end up w/ a far better machine
>>>>too.
>>>
>>>Now you can't - the Software costs more than $500 if you count it. If you
>>>decided to go the OEM router, OEM XP Home for $99 and OEM MS Works (or
>>>Word Perfect) you spend another $99, so you're still at $200 just for
>>>software - that only leaves you $300 to purchase a motherboard, CPU, FAN,
>>>Memory, (we won't count video since they use Onboard Video), hard drive,
>>>floppy drive, CD-ROM drive, Case, Power Supply, Mouse, Keyboard, and the
>>>mouse pad :)
>>
>>All you need is an operating system. There is plenty of legitimately
>>free software out there.
>
>
> And you don't need to pay for an OS either, there a few viable free ones
> out there too, but it was an apples-to-apples discussion, not an apples to
> oranges discussion.
>
>
Says who, you?
The discussion was about building vs buying a PC and it naturally
evolved to discussing software costs involved in building one.
Steve
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