The Future of Building your Own PC
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From: geoff on 8 Mar 2010 03:23 Leo Laporte, on 'The Tech Guy' radio show was responding to a caller and said hardly anyone builds their own PC anymore. He said the reason is, PCs are dirt cheap because the big boys buy in bulk, and companies, like Dell, sell them with razor thin profits. The question is, do you think stock lays around places like Newegg because no builds their own and what is the future of building your own? --g
From: John Doe on 8 Mar 2010 04:14 "geoff" <nospam(a)nospam.com> wrote: > Leo Laporte, on 'The Tech Guy' radio show was responding to a > caller and said hardly anyone builds their own PC anymore. Of course that is debatable. > He said the reason is, PCs are dirt cheap because the big boys > buy in bulk, and companies, like Dell, sell them with razor thin > profits. Agreed. They buy parts by the thousands and use an assembly line. > > The question is, do you think stock lays around places like > > Newegg because > no [one] builds their own The reason is because (relatively speaking) we pay a lot for components. > and what is the future of building your own? Bright. I do it component by component over time. Otherwise I would buy one from Dell or whatever. My system is very well tailored to my needs. And I enjoy the control.
From: Man-wai Chang to The Door (33600bps) on 8 Mar 2010 06:24 On 3/8/2010 16:23, geoff wrote: > Leo Laporte, on 'The Tech Guy' radio show was responding to a caller and > said hardly anyone builds their own PC anymore. He said the reason is, PCs > are dirt cheap because the big boys buy in bulk, and companies, like Dell, > sell them with razor thin profits. Lego is still making money, Your Honor! And the age of robots hasn't come yet.... :) -- @~@ Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you! /( _ )\ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.33 ^ ^ 19:24:01 up 3:45 1 user load average: 1.05 1.07 1.02 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_pubsvc/page_socsecu/sub_addressesa
From: Mark on 8 Mar 2010 11:03 On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 03:23:32 -0500, "geoff" <nospam(a)nospam.com> wrote: >Leo Laporte, on 'The Tech Guy' radio show was responding to a caller and >said hardly anyone builds their own PC anymore. He said the reason is, PCs >are dirt cheap because the big boys buy in bulk, and companies, like Dell, >sell them with razor thin profits. > >The question is, do you think stock lays around places like Newegg because >no builds their own and what is the future of building your own? IMHO people build their own for a number of reasons: - Want to learn more about PC hardware - They want a particular spec. and can't get it from retailers. - They don't want Windows. - They don't want crapware preinstalled. - They have had bad experiences with box shifters. - I'm sure there are other reasons. These reasons are still as strong as they ever were so I expect people will still build their own. -- (\__/) M. (='.'=) Due to the amount of spam posted via googlegroups and (")_(") their inaction to the problem. I am blocking most articles posted from there. If you wish your postings to be seen by everyone you will need use a different method of posting. [Reply-to address valid until it is spammed.]
From: Flasherly on 8 Mar 2010 11:39
On Mar 8, 3:23 am, "geoff" <nos...(a)nospam.com> wrote: > Leo Laporte, on 'The Tech Guy' radio show was responding to a caller and > said hardly anyone builds their own PC anymore. He said the reason is, PCs > are dirt cheap because the big boys buy in bulk, and companies, like Dell, > sell them with razor thin profits. > > The question is, do you think stock lays around places like Newegg because > no builds their own and what is the future of building your own? > > --g More like Acer -- laptops are the big "convenience" item. A computer's a computer, right? ...looks that way to someone not into the techend, building or especially demanding software, so why not have low form factor. Acer's been undercutting Dell for sometime and doing it well. I see them all the time, little girls with Denny's WiFi looking sophisticated sporting laptops. Right across the street from a Walmart, and they aren't overlooking any of that action, either, you can bet. Newegg -- is comparatively small potatoes when talking laps or business models. A nice offset, though, that fills the niche aside business models, especially. No company will totally fill a custom factor for desktops tailored to specific applications, as capably as in in-house technician. A zealous homebuilder isn't so different -- it's a nice return, a big bang for the buck, in tailoring a homebuild to industry components manufactured for discriminate builds. Not what goes into Dell or HP assembly line. Price them out -- interesting prices, what they, the larger players pay in assembly lots, when sometimes a middleman gets overstock to resale. Oranges and apples in principle to set manufacturing beside a custom build, although that would neither necessarily be fair, from a PC enthusiast viewpoint, to what might be encountered when repairing a budget namebrand build. For the storefront price (Bestbuy/Walmart/ Circuit City, etc.) -- to what's actually inside some, a so-called bargain sale. Nor that it really matters when they serve their purpose reasonably over an acceptable time-frame of limited competence. After exhaustively examining little girls with Denny's WiFi laps, it's conclusive proof: Not everyone surfing the web with dualcores would be expected also to dedicate a core to engineering rocket ships for a Mars landing. |