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>.< I am just curious, sony is constantly coming out with new models every month lol seems like it.. but fujitsu comes out at least once a year, correct me if I am wrong. By doing this, is this how fujitsu keeps their price so stable and consistant? where as sony is alway dropping.. (curious cause I was looking into a sony desktop)
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I know that I am happy with this strategy. I don't have to have the "older" model just a month or 2 after I bought it! + sony with each release just upgrade one tiny bit, while fujitsu save them for the 6-9 month upgrade.
I got my laptop 5+ month after it was released, had it for 2+ months, and this will remain the newest for at least one more month! Kind a nice feeling. [
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Why they do it? No idea, but sonys prices aren't that impressive, especially with the way their quality has been going recently! (I am an EX-sony fan)
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Buying a computer would mean the individual parts are warranteed to work together as a group, whereas buying individual parts which in an of themselves are warranteed to work, may not work together in a specific configuration through no fault of the builder, and that leaves one open to having to pay restocking fees or at the least having to drive back to Fry's to exchange stuff. It's rare, but it is a possibility. And it's a matter of time. Sometimes I don't have time when a computer will break at work and I will go get an emachine. For my personal desktop, however, last time I bought a prebuilt computer was a Compu-Add 286-10Mhz w/512k memory, 20 meg harddisk, 2400baud modem, 5 1/4" 1.2meg floppy drive in 1987. I took it home, turn it on, and saw MSDOS3.1's "C
blinking cursor)" and I thought "sooooo.. what am I supposed to do?". Well Compu-Add left out the internal modem so I took it back. After waiting what seemed to me long enough I went back and asked if it was fixed. They forgot what I brought it back for and said nothing was wrong with it. "But I paid for a modem that is not in it", I said. Salesman said, "what's the matter, don't you have a phillips screwdriver?", and that's my introduction to building computers out of necessity because the guys at Compu-Add were worthless. And if it were only popping the card in that would be easy, but no, back in those days you had to set jumpers for irq's and try to decifer docs translated from Taiwanese. Nowadays things are pretty much straightforward.
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Compatibility issues most of the time these days are due to RAMs (thou very rare), but you can avoid that by checking the site of the mobo manufacturer for tested and approved modules, which avoids all this trouble. Other than that there isn't much that can go wrong. Everything is pretty straight forward these days in building PCs, voltages are set automatically, no irq conflicts (XP can bypass them even if you have them), it's sort of boring.
Drw, I like your little story of how you started building PCs ... I was just a kid back in 87, my first build was a pentium (mid 90s). you forgot about figuring out how to set those some 10 jumpers on the board to indicate what CPU speed you have and bus and voltage. I thought it was soo cool when some manufacturers started using some onboard switches instead of fiddling with jumpers. Then the P3 came and took away all the fun and joy of building PCs and trying to figure out what's going wrong. []
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Is it just me or is everybody calling you "precious" a little bit creepy? [
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About building your own computer, trust me. It's not as hard as you think. My gf thought it was impossible, and by how little she knows about tech and how little she cared about anything computers, she was... almost right. It took me a good hour or two to describe to her what each part's (CPU, motherboard, HDD, etc..) used for, but after she learned everything, I'm glad to say, she caught up fast. I built a comp in front of her once, gave her several instructions (concerning HDD LED, power button, etc.. cables, pin location and such), and she built everything in an one short hour. Not half as fast as I am, but not too bad for an amateur nontheless.
The lesson? Even someone who knew nothing about computers can build one rather easily. Why can't you?
stoopid question, stoopid answer .. i know...
Discussion in 'Fujitsu' started by precious, May 26, 2005.
