Reply to: buying a new PC....

[TheMonkey]

It's better to buy a cheap dell and run it to death and throw
than buying expensive hardware which will be obsolete anyway in a year

Yeah spot on. I just flogged a laptop that cost me £900 last August for £350. Cheap tulip depreciates slower because there is less cash to lose.

Oh and don't buy Dell laptops - they are all tulip now. Desktops only!

[Ruprect]

Try this: iBuzz

[interested]

You must have a realy realy realy small willy!

I put it to you that if you can visualise inserting your piece into a set of ipod headphones then it must be miniscule.

[ChimpMaster]

Is is worth waiting for Vista??

[The Lone Gunman]

There aren't really any obvious insertion points on a set of ipod headphones...

You must have a realy realy realy small willy!

[interested]

You must have a realy small willy.

There aren't really any obvious insertion points on a set of ipod headphones...

[Xenophon]

Thought you were going for a dump? or are you posting from trap 3 on a wireless connection?

Very good Dave! Made me chuckle.

[DaveB]

Thought you were going for a dump? or are you posting from trap 3 on a wireless connection?

[andy]

It's better to buy a cheap dell and run it to death and throw
than buying expensive hardware which will be obsolete anyway in a year

[The Lone Gunman]

Reliable?!

Writing this on a 6 month old Dell laptop that frankly is now starting to resemble a pile of crap. The USB slots don't seem to now generate enough power to run some attachments, like HD's. Customer support is dire.

Am thinking about the new Merom-powered Macbook Pro in a couple of months time. I had a go on a Mac the other day and was impressed, not least that it could runs Windows seemingly a lot better than my Dell. My experience of Apple's customer support is pretty good as well - they couriered me a new pair of ipod headphones, for free, in less than 24 hours when I rang them up to tell them that I'd buggered my existing ones.

You must have a realy small willy.

[interested]

Just grab a dell. Cheap, very reliable and no hassle with RMAing individual parts when something ****s up.

Reliable?!

Writing this on a 6 month old Dell laptop that frankly is now starting to resemble a pile of crap. The USB slots don't seem to now generate enough power to run some attachments, like HD's. Customer support is dire.

Am thinking about the new Merom-powered Macbook Pro in a couple of months time. I had a go on a Mac the other day and was impressed, not least that it could runs Windows seemingly a lot better than my Dell. My experience of Apple's customer support is pretty good as well - they couriered me a new pair of ipod headphones, for free, in less than 24 hours when I rang them up to tell them that I'd buggered my existing ones.

[TheMonkey]

Just grab a dell. Cheap, very reliable and no hassle with RMAing individual parts when something ****s up.

[Pondlife]

Plus the time sourcing the components you want, waiting for them to arrive. Sending back any that arn't as ordered or DOA. Waiting for replacements...

Trying to find drivers that actually work

[Lockhouse]

Yeah but there's always one bit that doesn't work and it's always a hassle and for every one that takes two hours to build, another takes two weeks...

[DaveB]

Building a PC takes about 2hrs from start to finish. Not exactly a great deal of time to waste for a computer to the exact spec you want (I build mine for overclocking).

Plus the time sourcing the components you want, waiting for them to arrive. Sending back any that arn't as ordered or DOA. Waiting for replacements...