Did you build your own computer or did you buy it from one of those pre-made sellers?
I built my computer, I don't like buying it from Dell and people like that because you have to pay for labor. Which I could do my self if I bought the parts.
I have always bought mine, and I never really pay attention to specs or brand. As long as I can use the internet, I'm cool with whatever. Of course I wouldn't buy some crappy 90's computer or anything like that, though; I just give specs a quick glance to see if it's at least decent enough for my needs.
Well I haven't built one in a long time but I prefer it to buying some pre-made unit. Now days I pay a local PC shop to build one for me. They usually only charge me like 200.00 over parts which still comes up a hell of a lot cheaper and better than some Dell computer.
Building my own performance PC has always been something that's interested me. I know how to build a computer from scratch but have never really been aware of the cost element of it.
How much cheaper would you say it is to build a custom machine with say 500Gb hard drive, quad core (2+ GHz) processor, 4 GB DDR2 Ram and re-writeable DVD drive (basically something like a Dell XPS) as opposed to buying one "off the shelf" with the same spec?
