Why does the media worship Apple?

[greenmedic88]

Baalzamon said:

justinian 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.

I like building my own stuff so what you said suits me. Unfortunately if you own a company with say three hundred plus staff building your own PCs seems a bit long winded. PC building is more of a hobbyist thingy.

Also not everyone cares about building their own PCs anymore than making their own clothes...come to think of it, even making your own dinner is on the downturn, with the microwave and takeaway  becoming more and more the main option as our lives are taken up with other things.

That's what I look at it as.  I do still want to make my own custom pc some day, but we'll see what constitutes a PC 5 years down the road when I'll actually have the money to put towards a potential process that could wind up failing miserably for me.

It's a learning project like a hobby kit. In the end you should be left with something that's actually useful for work or play.

It's actually not a bad idea either to learn by taking an old computer and breaking it down to its core components (and reassembling it) to understand how everything goes together. Maybe not as fun as building a new computer, but if you break anything, hey; it's an old computer anyway.

If you stick with standard components it's actually a pretty straightforward process with more problems likely to show up on the software end of things assuming you don't receive any DOA parts from the factory.