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In article <40anjl$v3o@hopi.gate.net>, Chad Irby <cirby@news.gate.net> wrote:
>Reid Conti (oakley@eskimo.com) wrote:

>:  Now if you got a REAL PC, build it 
>: yourself or have a small shop do it for you, it would be much cheaper, a 
>: p6 than a 604.  Powermacs are a royal rip-off.  I don't see why mac users 
>: can't see that, its right there in the numbers. 

>Oh- so you can guarantee that that small shop will be in business in a 
>year?  Sorry- from the standard track record of such stores, most of them 
>are here and gone in less than half that time.  And as far as building 
>your own machine... about one out of a hundred prople have the technical 
>skills to do it right, and even the people who *do* know how to do it 
>have to deal with a lot of hassle while trying to save a couple of 
>hundred bucks.  It's just not worth it.

   Well, I will agree that it is a bit of a hassle, but (as someone
who has built seven PCs and has been a consultant for other people
building PCs) the bulk of this hassle comes when you start adding
additional hardware to the basic machine; a chore that many people
face even when they buy their basic machines off the shelf.  The
Mac is nice in that they don't have that blasphemy known as the IDE
drive (or didn't; I don't know about some of the el-cheapo performas)
and the only thing you need to worry about when adding DASD is whether
you've got your SCSI bus properly terminated, but, if you're sensible,
neither does a homebuilt PC.


>: Whereas if I build a PC up myself, I might pay for the 
>: advertising of the harddisk company and the motherboard, processer 
>: company (Intel) but that's it. 
>
>...and the time you spend building the thing.  Unless your time is worth 
>zero dollars an hour to you (should we tell your boss?)

   Do you pay someone else to eat dinner for you?  After all, it's
a hour of your valuable time, and your boss would be happy to know
that you're, um, 'working' for free.  And the next time you're
thinking about buying a hard drive, you'd better hire some teenager
to do it for $4.25 a hour, since your time is Too Valuable to WASTE
by calling MacWarehouse and ordering the SCSI disk of the month.


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