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I've seen a huge number of Acer's over the years. I love them, since they give me so many income opportunities from PC repair clients.
"If it's Snowbird season, why can't we shoot them?" - Overheard in a bar in Bullhead City
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OK, I gotta use this opportunity. YES MY ACER FERRARI 3200 is a wonderful machine.
Oh how I miss the hows spent in CP message boards. Hmmm... guess I'll go back to work, see ya again in a few months.
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Acer was fairly wide spread in North America until they got slapped with a class action suit in the states... They got nailed for using used components in their laptops.
I had one, it died... I live in Canada, so i was screwed.
I couldn't pay me to use an Acer product.
Jamie
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Took a fight with my wife and bought a dell inspiron 8600 ( 1.5Ghz Centrino).
Does it all for me, 1gb memory, 80 gb hd and a radeon 9600 (128 mb true graphics ram)
I can do the code(project) and my favourite code(masters) Op flashpoint on the same
balcony (wireless) I cried blood, but have not had to regret my desicion, yet)
used to build my towers but finaly decided to concentrate on the software side of things
Gupta Team Developer 3.1
VC++ 2003
Oracle 8i
W2K-XP
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In addition to the three PCs I owned so far, I assembled or upgraded atleast 5 for my friends and relatives. Except for one case where the hard drive developed bad sectors, all these machines worked well for years. Assembled PCs give excellent value for money. The catch is - there has to be a techie guy nearby whom you can catch, if any problem happens with the PC.
In the two software firms where I worked so far, the story differs though. The owners wanted
a. Guaranteed reliability
b. Support
c. Discounts on bulk orders
d. Uniform models to jazz to the interiors
At both places I saw HP machines rule. The monitors were dominatingly Samsung.
Salil Khedkar [^]
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Yes, I agree with you... I think for people like us, the best way to get the best thing in the best price is build our own PCs... by getting the best things from the market and assemble them... Yes, it would not contain the LOGO or symbol but for us, it is not so much important rather...
Jigar Mehta
(jigarmehta@gatescorp.com)
Software Developer
Gates Information Systems
India
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But it's hard to build your own laptop.
I used to be a desktop developer and have since moved to portable computing. I still use a full size monitor, keyboard and mouse, along with an external home-made Firewire tower containing a DVD burner and a 250G drive. If I have to move in a hurry, all I need is my laptop and the external hard disk.
/ravi
My new year's resolution: 2048 x 1536
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ravib@ravib.com
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Yes, yes... Can't help notebooks...
Hey, you look like a gizmo freak and that too a blessed one... I can only wish I had all the money to build my firewire towers...
Convey my love to thy gizmos...
Salil Khedkar [^]
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Salil Khedkar wrote:
wish I had all the money
Actually, I went the cheap route. Bought a couple of bare devices and an empty Firewire enclosure on EBay and put the two together. Of course, prices have (as expected) since fallen.
/ravi
My new year's resolution: 2048 x 1536
Home | Articles | Freeware | Music
ravib@ravib.com
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I have built my own pc since I had bad experiences with a Packard Hell machine in the early 90s. At work I have been building all our machines (except laptops) for at least 5 years. You get a higher quality system that is better tailored to your need for a better price if you build it yourself.
John
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The only time I've ever bought a complete machine it was running Win95. When I switched it on for the first time, it didn't boot! Welcome to PlugAndPlay. I've never made that mistake again. If you don't do it yourself, it apparently gets built by a chimpanzee.
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Laptop vendors drove my crazy...
I want a machine to be able to use .Net & Oracle & SQL with ease.But the fact is they make it impossible or should pay enourmous prizes for that machine..
Everytime I search for a machine , I quit it with anger..
Any suggestions a laptop w/out DVD-R with low prize
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May be I prefer Assembled Computer as It is Cheap and more PowerFul then any branded computer in market.
Let COnsider My case
i bought my computer in Nov 2001 with configuration
PIV 1.5 Ghz 512 Mb ram and 32 mB graphic Card.
it cost me around rs 45000 or 1000$ and same computer from branded Vendor will cost me around 90000 or 2000$
i think i have done better deal
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"I Think It Will Help"
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Alok Gupta
visit me at http://www.thisisalok.tk
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We don't need no stinkin' corporations to tell us how or what to put in our computers!!
Plus, it's much easier to upgrade when you've built the machine yourself. Incidently, the only original piece of hardware in my current incarnation is my floppy drive. Maybe it's time to upgrade that as well.
"if you vote me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine" - Michael P. Butler.
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lols Can you really upgrade Floppies? to what? ZIP's have sorta become obsolete!
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6 years now I have been using the same PC. Built from scratch the first time and it is still running. Every now and then I treat it to an upgrade, like the shiny new processor I just installed a few months ago. It works and gets the job done, although the keyboard is starting to fade
C++ - Pure, Simple, Makes Sense.
C# - Microsoft's idea of Pure and Simple
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Your signature is a joke right?
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Drew
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I think I am going to change it... Way too much negative feedback :p
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I just remember all the bad things people would do in C++. I did enjoy developing in it though because I could always show very elegant designs and patterns in it because it lacked so much support and people knew so little about how to do proper designs in C++. Referenced counted pointers in C++ still elude many. However I don't think I would use the words you did to describe C++. Hey at least VS.NET 2003 is something like 95%+ ISO C++ Compliant.
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Drew
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I was wondering too
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... can be a big adventure .
I built my first (own) pc at the age of 14.
Don't try it, just do it!
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I just hope Lauren doesn't read this!
-- LuisR
Luis Alonso Ramos
Intelectix - Chihuahua, Mexico
Not much here: My CP Blog!
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I hope she doesn't read the text votes.
Everybody is entitled to my opinion
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I think it's the best way to have the best components.
You can choose what you really want and it's easy. Even if you don't know much about hardware (I am a software devellopper), it's easy.
I bought all my pieces from ncix.com, I found the best price on the net for a canadian company, received all my good within a week and everything was working fine without a problem !
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