Bought kids a dell now, ME, buy dell or build?

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OK, in years past, I always built my own computers.

Now Dells are getting better but do I buy or build from scratch again?

I will do some slight gaming but mostly programming, surfing web, AM stuff and of course Photoshop and Dreamweaver.

if build, any thoughts on brand of MB, CPU speed.

thanks for any advice
 


get a mac, why would you buy a Dell when they have the worst support in the industry, and are on the decline?
 
^^ I would probably say a mac as well, or build your own pc.

Macs are teh shit, but the thing that's putting me off is that they cost a ton more and charge silly prices for ram etc.

I may end up building a PC and putting the max OS on it.
 
Build.


I just built one for the kitchen. MicroATX case, ASUS MB, 4 gig ram, quad core Intel processor for about $600 at Newegg. Already had the hard drives and monitor. Same approx setup with a MAC would have run approx $2600. Shit ton more available software too. Win 7 runs awesome and clean.
 
HardSale said:
Build.


I just built one for the kitchen. MicroATX case, ASUS MB, 4 gig ram, quad core Intel processor for about $600 at Newegg. Already had the hard drives and monitor. Same approx setup with a MAC would have run approx $2600. Shit ton more available software too. Win 7 runs awesome and clean.
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Can't compare with Apple's support, and Mac OS X. Plus from my end these things still run on antiquated BIOS rather than EFI if you build. Any software for Windows runs on a Mac as well, so can we cut the 10 year old "no software!" argument?
 
papajohn56 said:
Can't compare with Apple's support, and Mac OS X. Plus from my end these things still run on antiquated BIOS rather than EFI if you build. Any software for Windows runs on a Mac as well, so can we cut the 10 year old "no software!" argument?
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Support for what? You built it. You can fix it. It isn't difficult. You download and install the latest bios whenever you want.

I'm not going to get into the "better" OS bullshit. I fucking hate the way Apple's shit treats you like a retard and the way it limits the way you can do things. Some people love it. Great.

Bottom line is you can have a nerd-off for weeks comparing insignificant CPU benchmark scores, etc, but for my world a MAC isn't $2000 better than a comparable PC that I can build myself by choosing the best components. Oh and when I want to add some RAM or other hardware, have to get buttfucked by Apple again with their ridiculous prices.
 
HardSale said:
Support for what? You built it. You can fix it. It isn't difficult. You download and install the latest bios whenever you want.

I'm not going to get into the "better" OS bullshit. I fucking hate the way Apple's shit treats you like a retard and the way it limits the way you can do things. Some people love it. Great.

Bottom line is you can have a nerd-off for weeks comparing insignificant CPU benchmark scores, etc, but for my world a MAC isn't $2000 better than a comparable PC that I can build myself by choosing the best components. Oh and when I want to add some RAM or other hardware, have to get buttfucked by Apple again with their ridiculous prices.
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wow, you really don't know how Apples work do you? OS X doesn't "treat you like a retard" or "limit you", it's certified UNIX, so if that's limiting you better shut down most of the web hosts and servers in the world. Terminal access, can boot to shell, can install and XWindow/XFree86 system. Yeah, real limiting right?

BIOS is not EFI; you can't put EFI on a BIOS motherboard.

And since when do you have to buy RAM directly from Apple? Nobody does that, standard RAM you can buy off Newegg works in most Macs unless you need in ECC Fully Buffered, in which case, you can STILL buy it off of Newegg.

Support for what? I dunno, my old Powerbook's lower RAM slot went bad once and Apple replaced it with a brand new, upgraded Macbook Pro for no cost, and extended my warranty. Sounds good to me.
 
Here's a quick setup I put together on Newegg, lost the wishlist URL but I have the contents of it:

Thermaltake V9 Black Edition ATX Computer Gaming Case - $99.99

Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0 HDD - $89.99

EVGA GeForce GTX 275 896MB 448-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - $272.99

CORSAIR 850W ATX12V 2.2 / EPS12V 2.91 Power Supply - $169.99

CORSAIR DOMINATOR 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 Memory - $256.99
ASRock X58 Extreme LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard - $199.99

Intel Core i7-920 Bloomfield 2.66GHz Quad-Core CPU - $309.99

Subtotal: $1,399.93
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Not sure what your budget is but this will run everything you want just fine. Do you have a monitor? If so, what resolution is it? I personally need to go pretty expensive on the video card because I run 1920x1200, you don't need to if you're on something smaller.
 
TylerL said:
Here's a quick setup I put together on Newegg, lost the wishlist URL but I have the contents of it:



Not sure what your budget is but this will run everything you want just fine. Do you have a monitor? If so, what resolution is it? I personally need to go pretty expensive on the video card because I run 1920x1200, you don't need to if you're on something smaller.
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Nice.. why ASRock over a Gigabyte or Asus?
 
Don't buy dell. If you buy ready built, go with someone else.

Dell is more expensive since they pretend to have support and warranty (which they don't unless you want to spend 100's of hours on the phone) so save that money and go with something cheaper.
 
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