Adam Maas wrote:
On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 4:32 PM, mike wilson <m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
Adam Maas wrote:
I've priced this and you can almost always get a pre-built system
cheaper than a home-built system. It's been about a decade since
building your own was a good economic choice. The biggest reason to
build your own system is to get a specific parts selection, but you'll
pay at least 10% more that way. Used to build all my own stuff, now I
buy relatively barebones-spec HP's and upgrade RAM/HDD/Video and
sometimes CPU, saves me a fair bit over any other option.
Except... in my experience, the savings are usually made in things like
power supplies or quality of memory chips, or cooling fans that quickly wear
to sound like F16s. In fact, anything that the manufacturer can get away
without specifying exactly. Not really savings at all.
That's not my experience with good brands (HP, Dell, etc) although it
most certainly applies to most white box systems and cheap brands.
Dell and HP get their savings by buying components by the shipload,
White Box stores get theirs by using crap for stuff that doesn't
appear on the spec shortlist.
My HP's have proven to have lifetimes similar to my Mac's, if not longer.
-Adam
Where I work, we have been buying PCs 600 at a time. You find some very
interesting things at that sort of sample size.
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