BYO or manufactured?

[Bob Cober]

I also recommend BYO system - but I would try to stay with name brand stuff.
Don't cut corners on the components.

Still, there is nothing wrong with buying a pre-built.


----- Original Message -----
From: Dr. G <drghastly@cox.net>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 1:14 PM
Subject: Re: BYO or manufactured?


> I make one trip. If you research all the information you have and know
what
> you want, then you shouldnt have to spend that mucht ime running around
> town, ESPECIALLY since now mostr places have a website and you can order
> from Online-only vendors quite easily for some parts. Yes, there is the
cost
> of shipping, but some places give discounts or group bundles. The cost of
> shipping is already added in for a HP, DLL, etc.
>
> BYO will always be a better deal then any proprietary system, unless you
won
> it that is :)
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sundar" <linux@esaravana.com>
> To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 1:03 PM
> Subject: Re: BYO or manufactured?
>
>
> > I used to do BYO, but not anymore. If you include , all the trips you
> > make to Fry's (and time wasted at office thinking about it), you might
> > actually come better off with manufactured systems. Whenever I used to
> > build the system by myself, I always went back and did upgrades on this
> > and that. But last time, I went to dell.com and picked up bare bones
> > dual processor systems and it worked out cheaper than the dual processor
> > system I was planning to build and never been happier before. I have
> > Solaris, BSD, Redhat and Windoze on that box. No problems.....
> >
> > Sundar
> >
> >
> >
> > Matt wrote:
> >
> > >This isn't really directly about Linux, but what are your opinions on
> > >building your own computer, or buying a Sony/Dell/whatever? I ask
because
> > >for the past few years I've been building my own, and it doesn't seem
to
> be
> > >working out too well for me. SuSE Linux 7.3 is supposed to have an
> amazingly
> > >easy install, but it took me a week to install it, even though my
> computer
> > >is very powerful. It always freezes somewhere, usually when it has to
> reboot
> > >or on its way back to the installation from rebooting. But anyway, I
> > >shouldn't go into all of that. I think a manufactured PC might work
> better
> > >because I know the manufacturers test all the parts together to make
sure
>
> > >they don't "fight" with eachother, and because I let my friend borrow
my
> > >SuSE CD's and he installed it flawlessly on his emachine, with windows,
> and
> > >that computer is about a third as powerful as mine.
> > >
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