On Sat, 17 May 2008 12:33:49 +0100, wildrover.andy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Andy Hewitt) wrote:
>T i m <news@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 17 May 2008 10:11:39 +0100, wildrover.andy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> (Andy Hewitt) wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >Oh yes, it's just over four years now, so that kind of return on a
>> >computer is bloody good really - considering an equivalent age PC is
>> >given away on Freecycle.
>>
>> Hmm buy for £1200, sell for £700 lose £500.
>>
>> Buy for £299, give away, lose £299. ;-)
>
>Actually, an *equivalent* PC at the time I bought the G5 would have cost
>nearer £1000 more to buy.
Really? Maybe that why I have never 'bought' a RTR one then! ;-) And
are you really telling me that whatever you are doing with yer 'PC'
(Mac or PC) requires that sorta spend? I have never spent anything
like that on any PC (in fact on anything outside this actual house,
even my BMW motorbike was only £2k!) and have rarely wanted for any
more performance / capacity / facilities etc? Do you really do that
much *work* that requires said (genuine questions etc).
A mate runs an old 3G Intel box and is heavily into photography, 12G
RAW images etc .. etc. I can't remember him complaining about how
slow everything was or that he couldn't do stuff? Ok, granted I've
recently built him a Quad core machine with decent graphics card etc
but that's mainly because he's bought himself a HD Camcorder and likes
to make his own movies etc.
> I actually paid £1800 for the G5,
Was that new then Andy?
>plus about
>another £500 for extras (LCD monitor, RAM, and Applecare).
Plus £100 for a PSU ...? ;-)
> I priced up a
>Dell at that time, trying to meet as best I could build quality,
What does that actually mean though please Andy? I mean, I have built
probably 100's of PC's in my time so I guess am responsible for the
'build quality' and I have never, ever, suffered because that wasn't
always the best even I could manage. At the end of the day it really
doesn't matter if say a cable doesn't run in the most perfect
geometric and neat manner, as long as it does it's job electrically
and doesn't interfere with anything else then AFAICS, it's 'built'?
I *have* seen some PC's that have been 'built' by PC shops or
individuals and some of them have been disgusting, but that's not the
fault of the boxes (one POS was bought off Fleabay and the builder had
re-used an old Compac PC, built it into a new case and had used very
long self tapping screws to hold things like the HDD in. Now whilst it
wasn't elegant or correct (in the purest sense) as long as said screws
didn't interfere with any other component then there was no actual
'issue'. I 'sorted it' for them (CPU heatsink not attached properly)
and it's been fine ever since).
> and
>specifications, and that would have come to almost £3500.
Feck!
All the best ..
T i m
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