You shoulda priced the parts and built it yourself. Not a good price. And didn't even include an SSD drive at that price.
But I guess convenience trumps quality yet again.
You underestimate my lack of confidence and skill, lol.
I did price the parts (on new egg), and I paid about $100 extra (part for part) to have the computer built by professionals for me instead of my fumbling ass putting it together. That $100 probably saved me half a day or more of cursing and stress. That's half a day I can spent fragging noobs or smoking cigars.
Also, it's 10 times the PC I would get for the same price at Best Buy.
Time is money, my friend. Also, not frying my MB with static electricity is a blessing as well...
You underestimate my lack of confidence and skill, lol.
I did price the parts (on new egg), and I paid about $100 extra (part for part) to have the computer built by professionals for me instead of my fumbling ass putting it together. That $100 probably saved me half a day or more of cursing and stress. That's half a day I can spent fragging noobs or smoking cigars.
Also, it's 10 times the PC I would get for the same price at Best Buy.
Time is money, my friend. Also, not frying my MB with static electricity is a blessing as well...
Lame excuses honestly which deprives you of very useful information and experience going forward in both life and career, but I understand and I am not free from making the same lazy choices. Every time I go to a mechanic, I wish I would just learn to do it myself. That is, if it isn't summer in Houston at the time. I don't have the will power to learn to fix my car in 100 degree weather.
(That's 100 degree temperature, btw, NOT heat index. Add 114% humidity to that... and that week long heat wave of mid-90 degree temperatures that hit the east awhile back can bite me. Houston IS a perpetual heat-wave. )
It may make sense for you to spend hours fussing with building a computer. I have a 1 year old, a wife, a full time job, a house to care for, etc. It makes no sense for me to waste a day building a PC when it costs me $100 extra for a professional to do it right and ship it to me for free. Building a PC is simply not high on my list of priorities.
Don't confuse lazy with smart. Stupid people work hard for no reason, and at the expense of things they care about.
I think it's fine for people not to build their own PC's...if you don't know what you're doing, and if it doesn't boot up correctly the first time (which is usually the case), it's going to be a stressful few hours while you try to figure out what's up. That will be the case even if you DO know what your doing.
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It may make sense for you to spend hours fussing with building a computer. I have a 1 year old, a wife, a full time job, a house to care for, etc. It makes no sense for me to waste a day building a PC when it costs me $100 extra for a professional to do it right and ship it to me for free. Building a PC is simply not high on my list of priorities.
Don't confuse lazy with smart. Stupid people work hard for no reason, and at the expense of things they care about.
If it's not laziness then it's a lack of understanding of how building your own computer gives you a leg up versus everyone else in the market doing your same job (assuming it involves computers in any way). While someone else would be stuck waiting for someone to fix their computer or, worse, spending money to have someone fix it (and it's almost always something exceedingly simple to fix), you would be saving time (which as you said is money) and actual cash by fixing it yourself right away. And you would get more work done.
I also think everyone should learn basic programming skills, because it will make you vastly more efficient over others in whatever job you're in when you realize you can have a computer do most of your computer work more efficiently and with far fewer errors.
That is, unless you're the CEO and your time really is worth $500/hr+... then in that case it really is a waste to learn. Just pay others to do everything for you.
By the way, I'm not trying to be a dick here. I honestly believe this stuff, and especially for someone that I respect like you (or anyone else on these forums). Computers rule the work world. You're better off knowing as much as you can about them, and the BEST way to learn is to build your own.
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I don't think you learn that much about computers by building one. :\
It's really just the equivalent of putting together some large lego blocks.
Well that's not really true, you learn quite a bit about them while building them.
Yes it's really easy, but at the same time think of all the stuff you do before you build one:
match parts together
usually you read about the individual parts in some manner that tells you what they do for the computer, it may be simplified but you still learn
You learn about your specific rig and what to fix if something goes wrong, and since you put it together once you know how to replace anything in it
You usually learn about fun little errors that can happen to your computer after the initial building.
You learn how to format hard drives and what that all means, change settings in BIOS etc.
Learn how to install an operating system if you've never done that before and a lot of people haven't
Learn how to install hardware drivers and all that fun stuff (Well windows 7 takes care of most of that these days.)
It really is quite the learning experience if you've never done these type of things yourself. I can also see where it would be overwhelming, and it is time consuming. Around an hour to put the PC together and then anywhere from 3-6 hours getting it setup after that, depending on if anything went wrong during the setup. (SPOILERZ: SOMETHING ALWAYS GOES WRONG! Like the time I was sent a PSU that had been switched to european voltage, can we say smoke and fire?)
Well that's not really true, you learn quite a bit about them while building them.
Yes it's really easy, but at the same time think of all the stuff you do before you build one:
match parts together
This I can do easily, and in fact when I researched my PC I compared it to a self-build with parts I chose on new egg. Also, I tend to upgrade my own machines (GPU, PSU, RAM), which is why my old one lasted as long as it did.
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You learn about your specific rig and what to fix if something goes wrong, and since you put it together once you know how to replace anything in it.
This I can do to a point, mainly if the issue is with the GPU, RAM or PSU.
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You usually learn about fun little errors that can happen to your computer after the initial building.
Now we're starting to come off the rails... this does not compute with my definition of fun. To me, this is an economic equation.
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You learn how to format hard drives and what that all means, change settings in BIOS etc.
Learn how to install an operating system if you've never done that before and a lot of people haven't
Right here is where I check out. Once the BIOS, setting, etc. all get involved my face turns bright red and I go into a blind beserker rage. When I come to, the house is destroyed and there is a slaughtered goat with teeth marks in my living room.
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Learn how to install hardware drivers and all that fun stuff (Well windows 7 takes care of most of that these days.)
This I've handled in the past as well.
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It really is quite the learning experience if you've never done these type of things yourself. I can also see where it would be overwhelming, and it is time consuming. Around an hour to put the PC together and then anywhere from 3-6 hours getting it setup after that, depending on if anything went wrong during the setup.)
Time is really the issue. It all comes down to how much time will it take, and how much money will I save by doing it myself. I fully expect to lose an entire day to putting a PC together myself, especially if I've never done it before. It only costs me $100 to pay someone else to put it together for me, and I pay myself WAY more than $100 a day. (That translates to $26,000 a year for a 5 day work week.)
When I compare that to my salary, and the value I place on my "free" time, I've losing well over $100 in opportunity cost if I do it myself.
This, my friends, is the basis of our economy and wealth creation.
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