[Am-info] Roll-your-own categories. - Getting [OT]

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In a message dated 2002 March 04 (Monday), timestamp 08:15 AM, 
   on the topic Re: [Am-info] Roll-your-own categories. - Getting
[OT],
   Mitch Stone <mitch@accidentalexpert.com> wrote:


"|> would count a small integrator as a corporate user... I don't know of
"|> any non-technical SOHO users that build their own systems).  I agree
"|> that OS and hardware combinations matter for performance, but it's
"|> likely only to matter if you really, really care about performance.

"|Or that many technical ones, either. If you run a SOHO business like
"|I do,
"|  you are always conscious of the time equals money equation. I
"|can't  justify spending potentially billable hours building my own
"|computer. (I  don't change my own oil, either.)

For the same reasons, we come out on the opposite sides of the
conclusion.  I, too, own my own business, and therefore cannot
tolerate downtime of essential tools.  By assmbling my own system, I
can choose the most reliable components (those least likely to fail),
and I can usually fix anything that goes south, because I know exactly
what is there.  Most major assemblers (Dell, Gateway, etc.) change
internals as component prices fluctuate, so even if you get a tech on
the line who knows what he (or she) is talking about, he may not be
able to discern what subcomponents are in your computer (and therefore
what drivers, etc. are appropriate). 

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