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To: fyodor_ who wrote (149722)11/26/2001 9:27:01 PM
From: Tony Viola  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
Fyo,

Price, price and performance. I can get a faster and much cheaper PC if I'm willing to spend an hour researching the components and another hour assembling the thing and installing software

Even with the Dells and Compaqs getting volume price discounts on everything?

I don't have sufficient data to make a solid guesstimate, but the ratio is clearly much closer to 1:1 than the ~ 3:1 overall market share.

Don't exaggerate AMD's share (on the latter).

Tony



To: fyodor_ who wrote (149722)11/26/2001 10:19:12 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
Fyo, <I can get a faster and much cheaper PC if I'm willing to spend an hour researching the components and another hour assembling the thing and installing software.>

Even if you didn't pay for the software (which, BTW, is illegal, hint hint winky winky), I doubt you can save that much money building the PC yourself.

The only reason why I still do it is the flexibility, like you describe.

Tenchusatsu


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