leatherhat said:
rocketpig said:
leatherhat said:
The first problem I'm seeing in this thread is people buying prebuilt. If you are buying prebuilt you already fucked up, regardless of what OS you run.
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Some of us don't have the time (or patience) to sit around for 6-8 hours building a computer and loading an OS onto it.
Time IS worth money. If you like building a computer yourself, great. But some of us feel there are better things to do. I spend all week ripping apart computers, installing new hardware, updating OSes, etc. I don't feel like doing that shit at home.
I also don't change my own car's oil or work on it at all, even though I am entirely capable of doing so. That's why I have a job... so I don't have to work on shit I don't want to do at home. I'll let someone else do that for me.
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It doesn't take nearly as long as that- maybe 2 hours. And its worth it when those two hours save can save you anywhere between 1-3 grand plus you get a much better quality machine.
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No way are you assembling a complete computer and loading an OS in two hours. No freaking way. I've built more computers than I can count and it's nearly a two hour process just getting everything unboxed, bolted together, plugged in, and assembled into the box.
Then there's the OS, drivers, optimization, file transfer, software, etc. etc. etc.
And I can buy a RAID server from Dell with ECC RAM for way less than $3k so there's no way you're saving that much on building your own box.
