Steve, > As for me, it is simple. I buy the parts, build my own. I've built my > own since my first PC was bought, a Hyundai 386sx-16 w/DOS 6.22 on it and > nothing else. I realized long ago, 9 years now, that the big names also > equate to proprietary configurations, lock you into a single upgrade path > (same vendor) which you pay through the ass for and only until they > discontinue the model. Since then I have traded, bartered and hinted for > gifts on computer equiptment. I've gone through 4 computers since then, > every since one I built from new and old parts. In fact, I currently have > three of them running, one of which I just sold on eBay. Solid 486, just > don't need it any more.
Grotesquely off topic, but is there a useful book/website on how to do this - I've fiddle around inside my box, but being a student for serious upgrades I'd rather do it myself and save some cash? Thanks, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward-elect of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
