[I Fix 4 U]

HPs are very proprietary.

[brendandonhu]

What part of an HP computer is proprietary?

[I Fix 4 U]

The Case Design, the PSU setup (which i'm going to have2 mod) some design of the internals.

[brendandonhu]

Odd, my friend's HP has a regular ATX case and normal power supply as far as I can tell. Its a few years old though.

[Muffy7]

Can't we all just agree that building your own computer will always defeat any brand computer....?

Brands like Dell, Gateway, HP, Emachine all just put cheap **** in the computer because they want money, they don't care about the performance...we do! Therefore we should build the computers with exactly what we want/need.

that is my 2 dollars...(not cents)
hah

[HenryVI]

lol, but curious here, why do you guys like AMD over Intel?? (Don't gimme no "well the processor has the capability to yadayaydaydyadyada, because I won't understand lol )

[I Fix 4 U]

IMHO Better performance and in some cases price.

And yes muffy, ofcourse building is much better than buyin from those manufacturers.

[brendandonhu]

Originally Posted by HenryVI

lol, but curious here, why do you guys like AMD over Intel?? (Don't gimme no "well the processor has the capability to yadayaydaydyadyada, because I won't understand lol )

Price, speed, temperature, and Intel is an evil empire.

[HenryVI]

Define evil empire.....

[brendandonhu]

Evil Empire = Intel doing extra work to make sure its compiler runs apps on AMD slower.

[I Fix 4 U]

The intel compiler is tainted , remind me to continue messin with gentoo.

[djjarvis]

My housemate's eMachine had a spare PCI slot which I wanted to put a WiFi card into - but they hadn't made a cut-out in the back of the case for the back plate of the card to go into: I would have had to start drilling and sawing which I wasn't prepared to. Anyway, out came the modem and in went the Wi-Fi!