Recent Spadina/College retail experience

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 11:17:47PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> These store-bought systems are not perfect.  Built-in video has no TV
> out or DVI.  There are fewer PCI slots than I'd like.  BIOS updates
> are rarer than for motherboards sold retail (so upgrading the CPU
> is less likely to work).  Documentation isn't as complete.  You get
> MS Windows whether you want it or not (but it appears to add little to
> the price).  You don't get to choose the components so some may have
> no Linux support (my luck has been worse with notebooks).

That is why I build my own computers.  I want to know what I have and
that it will work and be supported.  My experience with name brand
machines has never been good.

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