Building your own doesn't necessarily mean you have to assemble it on your own; it just means you have to choose the parts. A local computer parts retailer will certainly give you advice on what you should buy and get all of the parts in and assemble it for you, all for the price of buying the parts separately.
Don't underestimate the saving you'll make here: I built my computer for $NZ1600 instead of $NZ3000 for an equivalent machine from a chain store. That's nearly a 50% saving.
It is not hard to figure out how to build your own once you have the parts. If you want builds, just ask, we can supply em.And you do get manufacture warranties, and newegg's return policy is excellent. Dell and HP warranties are not worth
, unless you upgrade to their gold/premium support plans.
apple replaced my dvd drive in my macbook pro and I don't think it was even still in warranty! (bought it refurb) cheers to that
My friend is selling me his for $300.
It's a working laptop with 798mhz and 448ram. I dunno what those to things do, but they're alot higher than my old computer.
are you sure? :O
That's like good stats from like ten years ago ;o
A laptop like that was powerful about 6-7 years ago.
Still good enough for Win XP, internet and media. Try haggling though :p.
For the record, more RAM basically means you can have more programs open without slowing down your PC, and faster CPU means your PC can process information faster, such as encoding and decoding stuff. 800 MHz would be enough to decode most videos in real time, but probably not a high-definition video.
Last edited by Mirage; 05-25-2007 at 10:17 PM.
everything is wrapped in gray
i'm focusing on your image
can you hear me in the void?
If you intend to watch anime, 800 MHz is not nearly enough, especially with h264 encodes these days even at non-HD resolutions - my 1.3 GHz Pentium M barely copes with those
If that's $US300, I think it's far, far too much to be paying for a machine of that power. Personally, I wouldn't buy less than a 3200+ AMD or equivalent Intel processor, and even that is not nearly as powerful as I'd like or need.
Building your own computer is not hard.
If you go with a notebook. Check out Asus and Lenovo. I'm currently waiting for the Santa Rosa (Centrino Pro) refresh of the Asus V1JP to hit the States.
Hmm... 300 USD a bit expensive. Considering the fact that it is used and the battery is probably also a little bit down the drain. 500 RAM is a LOT for that machine though. Usually a P3 laptop would have around 128 MB, so your friend must have stuck some fat RAM extension chip in there. 700 Mhz is nothing nowadays though. My guess is that the graphics card isn't larger than 16 MB either, possibly 8 MB.
How much are you willing to spend on a new computer? I think that's the big question.
it's probably 448 kilobytes of ram?
Originally Posted by rubah
it's probably 448 kilobytes of ram
Apparently he didn't actually say that.
Even if he did, I can't blame him for this sort of mistake. I can't exactly remember the other quote, but it went something like this:
That wasn't Bill Gates though.[...]In the future, computers will weigh less than two tons![...]
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