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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: wily who wrote (14256)	11/18/2003 11:47:43 PM
From: Jimbobwae	Respond to of 14778

What are the features on this machine that made you want to pay the premium? Are you running WinXP? Design, Size, Flexibility,Desire to not want to buy a Dell even though it costs less. I know these are mostly intangible and perhaps economically irrational yet it is also a personal quest for doing something different. You're probably swapping in an RW drive you already have? Otherwise, wouldn't a DVD-RW be OK for CD writing? Yes the CD vs DVD is another quirky choice based on work that I do and how I want to organize the data. I like the 52x speed and the cheap disks. I work with satellite images that are more suited to individual archiving on a single CD. For most people the DVD R/W makes more sense