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- FishHammer, on 05/20/2009, -7/+74How to build your own recession-special Mac:
Sell your car, sell your blood, and auction your pets. - bunk3rk1ng, on 05/20/2009, -0/+62Let me help you out,
www.newegg.com - c_starfish3, on 05/20/2009, -1/+24minus well? what does that mean?
- moo113, on 05/20/2009, -0/+20You're hilarious.
- wettestwillie, on 05/20/2009, -0/+20Newegg actually has public wish lists where people can build machines and users can and rate and comment. If you do a search you can find more then one build by one guy from one website. For instance, "$400". http://digg.com/u13jD4
- Reziarfg, on 05/20/2009, -0/+17I've had the occasional bad experience with tigerdirect support. Newegg has always been gold to me though. And their shipping and RMA process are amazing.
- jbird32275, on 05/20/2009, -0/+15So if I spend more...I can get more. Thanks for the insight!
/s - steelclash84, on 05/20/2009, -0/+15Macs commonly come with wells, so he was referring to getting one that doesn't come with a well.
- Pattyo13, on 05/20/2009, -1/+14http://outlet.dell.com
- MusicMagi, on 05/20/2009, -0/+12minus well LOL this is what happens when people hear words spoken but never actually read the printed word
- Astark, on 05/20/2009, -1/+8Believe it or not, sometimes you can get a decent computer from Best Buy for like $499, monitor included. They might be BS for warranties and "optimizing" and all of their other crap, but the economics of scale let them have the occasional awesome deal.
- astyguy, on 05/20/2009, -0/+7car boot sale or public library is cheaper ......
- smrekar, on 05/20/2009, -0/+6Dugg for actually building the machine. A lot of time these people find deals on crappy sites and then dont include tax/shipping/etc...
- mclewell, on 05/20/2009, -0/+6newegg FTW!
(just bought an HD 4870 from them!) - duewydo, on 05/20/2009, -0/+6At first, reading the specs and the prices I thought a guy could do a lot better than that. Then he him self in the article admitted prices could be had cheaper with alternative components. This wasn't a good build. It was a name brand budget build that smelled like he had been paid to be sided. I mean, well over a year ago I built a budget PC speced WAY higher for not much more.
- ptxyz, on 05/20/2009, -0/+6"I discovered that you can put together a decent machine (not including monitor, mouse, or keyboard) for well under $500—if you're willing to look hard"
Is this guy on crack?
>>> $500 w/o monitor/mouse/kb? <<<
>>> If you are willing to look hard?!?!?! <<<
Look hard to get ripped off maybe. - DeusNova, on 05/20/2009, -0/+6You could get another two gigs of ram for $20 easily.
Hell, if you're willing to invest $200 more, you can get an average gaming quality PC easily. - krisrm, on 05/20/2009, -2/+7If you're looking for a really cheap computer that still runs fast, you're probably going to get a better deal on a refurbished model... and some expandability for when you do have some spare change; that mobo is really not great.
- inactive, on 05/20/2009, -0/+5Macs dont have 64bit version of photoshop so suck on that mactard....
- bunk3rk1ng, on 05/20/2009, -0/+5I've never used TigerDirect, I've heard a lot of not so great things about them though. Never had a problem with newegg.
- pathouston22, on 05/20/2009, -0/+4I think its better just to build a good rig, and not have to upgrade it annually. I got the 8800GT the moment it came out, the Q6600 when it had the major price drop to around $300, and 4 GB of ram before it was super cheap as it is today.
So around $700-$800 for a near top of the line rig 2 years ago (not counting carry over parts, case/sound/hardrives/etc), and it still handles nicely today the latest games and my business (video editing/graphics design). Plus I sold my older parts and recouped some of the costs. - inactive, on 05/20/2009, -1/+5A very powerful machine that can run CS4 natively at 64 bits. and run it very well, not "at acceptable levels"
anything fairly recent can run it fine.
you cant run CS4 64 bit on a mac no matter how much you spend. - ausfahrt, on 05/20/2009, -0/+4Why? They have the same parts in them now and the program runs on both platforms. The only diff is mac doesnt have the same support for video cards so you would be behind the times right there and youd get more for your 4k just cause its not a mac.
- Scrappy1850, on 05/20/2009, -0/+4i looked down, and YUP! my work laptop is still a t43. slow as balls, but reliable.
- deathfix, on 05/20/2009, -0/+4My 8 year old sister does it all the time. That's why she sucks so bad at spelling.
- Taiyoryu, on 05/20/2009, -0/+3And that's why I don't use Chrome (yet)
- JimmyTheClam, on 05/20/2009, -0/+3If you need cheap, but with specs good enough for surfing the net and a few office apps, you can get 'good enough' at Geeks.
$150 - including the OS (WinXP Pro)
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=D530-P4280 ... - DecoyQ, on 05/20/2009, -0/+3He's crazy as a coconut!
- JimmyTheClam, on 05/20/2009, -2/+5If you don't mind staying up until 3:00 AM, you can get better for cheaper at Dell outlet almost any day of the week, or even hit the refurb/open box pile at someplace like Newegg if you must do absolutely everything yourself.
If all you want to do is surf the web, you can get even cheaper than that.
I never understood the appeal of these types of articles. - getatmedigg, on 05/20/2009, -0/+3ASUS M3A78-EM is the mobo for me. DisplayPort/ GigaLan/ HDMI/ SPDIF/ Crossfire/ eSATA/ AM2+-this mobo is hot!
- ayeroxor, on 05/20/2009, -1/+4minus well!? That's GREAT! You know what comes next? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8EOY6F1cxc
- theaceoffire, on 05/20/2009, -0/+3Power Search! Best part of Newegg.
- inactive, on 05/20/2009, -0/+3unless you install windows 64bit version on it :p
- mfreeland, on 05/20/2009, -0/+3In about 10 minutes on newegg, I put together a case, 485W power supply, motherboard (with good integrated graphics and HDMI) + AMD Phenom X3 8450, 4 gigs of memory, 1 TB 7200RPM SATA hard drive, and a blu-ray player/dvd burner for $403.94. What a lame article. http://tinypic.com/r/2uiw701/5
- inactive, on 05/20/2009, -0/+3What's a well?
- anenokoji, on 05/20/2009, -1/+4www.slickdeals.net www.dealcatcher.com
they constantly have really cheap dells for 400$ that'll come with a a dual, or sometimes quad core for a little bit more - greevar, on 05/20/2009, -0/+2You get one theoretical internet dollar for that.
- thejynxed, on 05/20/2009, -2/+4Linux is only better if all you want to do with your computer is email and light web-surfing.
Gaming? Pfft. OpenGL is horrid compared to DirectX, and WINE is a poor way to get any game to run.
Every time I try Linux, I always get rid of it, because it is absolutely useless for what I do on my computer. - Defiant001, on 05/20/2009, -1/+3mac also doesnt support the i7 yet I believe
- shadowspawn, on 05/20/2009, -3/+5I don't like this ***** that's been recently posted on digg about cheap computers. You want something cheap? Look for it. Ebay, craigslist, your local shop. I worked as a repo man for AT&T capital leasing for a while. These shops still exist. Buy with a credit card for protection.
If you want, you can pick up, and I'm not ***** you, a $100 walk-away computer with a CRT that runs linux and does whatever you want if you can put up with the learning curve. Hell, you can play quake3 on it and print to whatever old printer you have laying around, do your reports, backup your ***** on a thumb drive, write your damn dissertation and work with tons of scanned documents and photos, while using cheap-o keyboards and a laser mouse. Watch hulu. They are usually that good. Thing is you gotta restate your priorities.
You get what you pay for. A Lenovo t43 (old laptop!) still is used over $400 (with a new HD and extended high-cap OEM(!) Battery), while a new laptop from Dell is the same price. But why, you may ask? A laptop 2 years older is the same price as a new one that has "better" specs? Because that Lenovo will last a ***** longer than the new Dell.
Late-night bull session with classmates or business friends. You walk out of a bar, finishing after 4 long island ice-teas where it was all cold and nice and dry and then into the humid night heat where there's drops of water forming on your ring and your smokes are soggy, and bet the farm that laptop will be fried if you decide to light it up right then and there.
I ***** hate articles like this, when the editor can afford what I can't, yet can't write about basic systems and mention consumer protection at all. - thejynxed, on 05/20/2009, -0/+2It sort of is. You can buy barebones laptop kits. You pick the RAM, CPU, disks, OS, and sometimes the video card. They supply the case, screen, motherboard, batteries and power supply.
Not anywhere near as cheap as a barebones desktop kit, but it works. - michaelkelly, on 05/19/2009, -3/+5Great hints thanks.
- krisrm, on 05/20/2009, -0/+2There are good deals and bad deals... I ended up with a refurbished $550 (Canadian) HP Elite Desktop about a year ago (2.66 Core 2 Quad, 4GB RAM, 8600GT, 1TB 7200 HDD, TV Tuner), and it's not caused me problems yet. Though, I totally agree: Dell's customer service generally blows.
- inactive, on 05/20/2009, -0/+2nvm, I get it.
- zmigliozzi, on 05/21/2009, -0/+2power supply, dvd drive, case, and the peripherals.
- frepnog, on 05/20/2009, -0/+2"you can build a PC and run Mac's OS on them"
it isn't that easy, however. you have to use certain parts or it just won't work. - jejones, on 05/20/2009, -1/+3I'd use Linux and then spend the $90 on a graphics card.
- ShiftyBizniss, on 05/20/2009, -0/+2@redrabbit: Yeah we knew what he meant... but he's probably been saying it like that his whole life and has never been corrected.. he'll thank us
- Kwipper, on 05/21/2009, -0/+2***** Crysis... but will it run GTA4?
- kgerm, on 05/20/2009, -0/+12nd geeks.com
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