Re: buy or build computer?
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 12:55, Peter Christensen wrote:
> My five-year-old Gateway Pentium 200 MHz died recently. (It won't boot from
> the hard drive or a rescue disk, and it won't go into bios-setup mode.) I
> don't think it's fixable, and anyway, it was so slow that it's probably time
> to replace it. Temporarily I'm using a borrowed computer with Win95. Yuck!
>
> For my next computer I want to make sure that everything is compatible with
> Linux. I searched this list and found a few posts about buying computers.
> They were a little old (one or two years), so I'm wondering if the situation
> has changed. A few people recommended the AMD Athlon processor over
> Pentiums. And Matrox for video, Soundblaster or Ensoniq for sound. Any
> thoughts on this?
>
> I've heard that computers nowadays are built with the cheapest possible
> components, so I was wondering if building it myself would be a good idea.
> It might not be much cheaper than buying one from Dell or Gateway, but if
> the result was a better quality machine it might be worthwhile. So far I've
> only had to replace broken components in my Gateway, such as the hard drive
> and CDrom, also added memory. Building a computer would be a challenge, but
> I think I'd enjoy doing it...
In addition to "buy" or "build from scratch", there is a middle way:
buy a bare bones system (mobo installed in case with maybe a CPU), and
then you install everything else. This is the way I prefer to go.
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