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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