Computers?

[PastyPyro]

DVD-Rs are on the way down, which could mark the beginning of the end for our CD-Rs. I was at Circuit City the other day and noticed a DVD-R for 5 bucks, still expensive. The sad thing is it costs about the same to manufacture a DVD-R and a CD-R. I say build your own, and all the individual parts should have their own warranty.

[AcidBurn2]

Thanks guys for the help. You know have an old computer I found in my closet. but its like made in 1987 soo....... I took it apart today too. Man was it dusty!!
Oh and thanks for the dates of that computer show Somdumguy. lol like the handle. will any of you be going? I'll try and see if i can go.

[TechieChick]

If you purchase from a major manufacturer, HP, Compaq, Sony whatever...bump the warranty if possible to include onsite. Nothing worse than hearing the wailing of someone when they find out they have to ship their PC back to the manufacturer for warranty work and they'll be down for 2 weeks.

[Sudo]

Originally posted here by Pecosian
I've had no end of trouble with the AC97 on my newest computer, in fact I still haven't been able to get alsa working for it.

What do you expect? it's made by SiS (**** in System)

SiS does not support Linux or any other OSs at all. I also have an onboard AC97 sound card, and I would love to use it in Linux, but it doesn't look like I ever will. Im gonna have to get myself a new sound card soon; I'm tired of booting into Windows just to play RTCW.

--Sudo

[kewlphatdude]

with the money that you are going to spend, why dont you just build one. That way you can get experince on how computers work and communicate .For example i got a H.P. box(from a friend,i messed up all the screws from all of the opening the box and closing) with a smelloron opps i mean celoron 733mhz 256meg dual boot win 98se,win 2k, sound blaster live,21 inch flat monitor,yamaha cd-r.Man your mind can go wild. good luck.


But i would go with the sony vaio

[prodikal]

i would say with the money u r going to spend custom make u r new puter then u know what u r wanting in u r new box just my 2 cents

[politroyx]

HP has a faster CPU that the Sony, so better buy the HP. But for me I rather assemble my own PC. You can have more for only less than $ 1000.00. And they are easy to upgrade.

[atl2ptown]

Builing your own is the only way to go IMHO. Especially if you desire to learn much about computers. As someone said earlier stay away from integration as much as possible. Not only will it change your option of running an alternate OS, but if something goes wrong with the motherboard, then you lose the integrated hardware also, and Vice Versa. Check out http://www.pricewatch.com for great deals on all computer parts.

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