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Originally Posted by Luca
In all honesty, I cannot think of a single PC company that doesn't make shit computers. Buying a desktop seems like a stupid thing to do. If you're not knowledgeable enough to build a PC on your own (which is not hard), then you probably shouldn't be using Windows. Really, that's how I see it. I use Windows because although it's not as good an OS as the Mac, it's good enough and it gives me endless freedom to mess with my hardware. I would see NO benefit in going to Windows if I didn't get this freedom.
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Uh, the real reasons for Windows PC's are price and software compatibility. You don't need to DIY to get either of those benefits, you just need to find a decent computer builder that may also be a company. Many sell decent ready configurations, and many let you write up a component list if you are so inclined. You lose the hassle of building and gain a warranty that covers the whole box and troubleshooting also in the future. My friend is doing this right now, I might do it myself. When I built my last box there was trouble with broken parts (this was the IBM 75GXP times, three sequential hard drives died on me in a month). If I consider my time worth *anything at all*, I lost a lot when I didn't go with a prebuilt box.