Comments on: To Build or Buy, That is the Question

By: Rich Menga

Rich Menga — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 00:22:32 +0000

Congratulations, you just commented on a five-year-old article.

Go buy a Mac. Apple people love it WHEN YOU TALK IN ALL CAPS LIKE A BLITHERING IDIOT. You’ll fit right in.

By: Thomas Leonard

Thomas Leonard — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 22:36:04 +0000

You don’t address the issue of build or buy!

Which makes your article “JUNK”.

As a owner of multiple HP products and having to deal with their customer support more than once and one of those times it was a over 5 hours that their tech person helped me.
One of the times it was help for a computer that was 2+ years out of warranty.

NOW Whether to build or buy,
THAT IS STILL THE QUESTION THAT WAS NEVER ANSWERED.

By: Matt’s Weblog

Matt’s Weblog — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:05:00 +0000

[...] I also found a site I thought did a great job of easily educating you about buying vs building a computer, in a quick and easy way. The site has Gaming, Mid-Range, and Budget/Office computers separated into different section. If you went into gaming computers, the page has a table where it shows the price of a pre-built computer, then how much it would cost if you were to buy the parts separately and built it yourself. The site has a poor design, with big spaces all over the page. Also, for my site I would like to go into more detail, like the user would compare a buy vs build, and notice they’d save $250 building it themselves. From there, they could look into adding different features to make an ever better computer with the money saved. Buy vs. Build Research [...]

By: Better to Buy or Build a Computer?

Better to Buy or Build a Computer? — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:48:46 +0000

[...] at various articles comparing a high-end pre-built PC to a similar custom built one (such as this one), and they seem to show a few hundred dollars saved when building a computer. So building a [...]