Local system builders? preferably North York or Thornhill

[William Park]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 01:07:03AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   Any custom system-builders in the North York / Thornhill area?
> 
>   As I mentioned in another thread, I may be having hardware problems
> with a machine.  This could be my excuse to get a real 64-bit system.
> My first reaction was to look at Dell's website.  The problem is, when
> you get to 8 gigabytes, they only offer 2 consumer systems.  And those
> are loaded with mandatory crud like a 23 or 24 inch monitor, and a
> super-duper ATI Radeon video card.  Paying extra is one thing; but I
> draw the line at cutting corners on the basics in order to get extra
> stuff I don't want/need.
> 
>   I'm looking at getting a machine with 8 gigs of RAM and integrated
> ethernet/GPU/sound and not much in the way of bells/whistles.  I already
> have a monitor/keyboard/mouse/speakers, thank you.  Of course, linux
> compatability is required.  With the exception of the outsourced Poulsbo
> fiasco, Intel has been pretty good recently with linux compatability.
> I'd rather their integrated GPU than ATI or nVidia.
> 
>   Due to seizures years ago, I don't have a driver's licence.  I live
> near the corner of Dufferin+Steeles, so I can take either TTC or YRT
> buses.  That's the reason for my preference for North York or Thornhill,
> but I'd consider further away.  I have a neighbour in our condo building
> who'll occasionally drive me to out-of-the-way places, and I let his
> relatives use my empty parking spot when they visit him, but I don't
> want to impose too much.

Why not buy components, piece by piece, and assemble them at your
leisure.  My main peeve with Intel CPU is that I have to go to Intel's
website and check out which has what features.  Whereas AMD64 is pretty
generic and predictable.

Motherboard/RAM/CPU shouldn't be that expensive...
    - motherboard $100
    - 8GB RAM $200
    - CPU $200
...hmmm, they add up, don't they? :-)

-- 
William

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