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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