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

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (1577)	6/27/1998 9:36:00 AM
From: Sean W. Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

If some machines by a big boxmaker are open architecture and others are not my advice is to by a machine with the architecture. This is not always evident on the Web Site. Many buyers ask the question is it upgradeable?. This is not sufficient as most machines are upgradeable. One open PCI slot or DIMM slot and a salesman will bill a machine as upgradeable. Absolutely, it pays to ask questions, visit usenet, search, deajnews for others with the box. Major OEM's still do stupid stuff. Dell was shipping machines with 1 serial port for a while. If your not careful and specific they may populate all your simm/dimm sockets etc. Sean