***OFF TOPIC*** (mostly)
<<just can't put together a system as cheaply as MUEI, GTW or DELL.>>
Hi John, click on the below url and use the feature "products" under "shopping". They do all the work (comparison shopping) for you. You're not going to get 32mb of RAM for $68 per, or the quality of a Matrox Mystic video card for $125, etc., in your system from DELL/GTW in the sub-$1K category. Not that I'm aware of.
I found a case with power supply, etc., including a 200 Mhz Cyrix chip, 16mb RAM, 2 gig HD, etc., for $499. Then plug in all of the above and a sound card (you probably have speakers), and whatever else you want like removable storage. Maybe you'll pay a hundred bucks more than for the DELL/GTW set-up, MAYBE. But you're system will be far superior, IOM. An upgrade to 64mb from 32mb of RAM is about $240 at DELL/GTW. You can buy an entire 128mb of RAM, outright, for that much thu NetBuyer. Check it out:
netbuyer.com
Let me know,
Greg (Long on MUEI, but building my own this time.)
p.s. This will just show everyone interested in investing in boxmakers how horribly competitive this market is. I've said it on other treads, many times over the past couple of weeks, sub $500 is coming next year, IMO. Profit margins are going into the tank, big time. 1998 is going to be very interesting for the end-user and dangerous to those of us invested in this sector. I wouldn't own a DD company, for example. RAM, SRAM, DRAM makers, same thing. Mother board components, etc. IMO, big trouble. Way too much competition and pressure on the profit margin. We'll see. Good luck to us all. |
