Build Your Dream Computer
I noticed a post on Lockergnome earlier that made me chuckle a little. The poster asks everyone whether they would buy a Windows machine or a Mac if they had up to one thousand dollars to spend. I can already picture the responses to that question: fanboys on both sides of the coin arguing with each other! However, I have a feeling that some of our more hard-core Geeks will want to just build a machine and slap some flavor of Linux on it!
What would you do if someone handed you a grand and told you to buy any computer you wanted? What would you look at first… and why?
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7 Comments
Tony
February 1st, 2010
at 9:36pm
I would look at 3 things: CPU, RAM, and video. Those are the 3 things that matter most to me.
PayTyler
February 1st, 2010
at 9:51pm
Personally, I would build a server with Linux or a gaming rig with Windows 7 on it. But I’ve always built to fulfill my computer needs and I would be interested in trying out something that I have not done before. How hard would it be to build a Mac tower? And have it run authentic Mac OS X?
Tobias Timpe
February 1st, 2010
at 10:09pm
I would rather go with a universal machine thtat would run Win7, OSX86 and Linux. That would be a Core i7 with 8 GB Ram and and a decent Graphics Card.
Ryan Rampersad
February 1st, 2010
at 10:20pm
I built my current computer nearly a grand. It has a Phenom II X4 945, 4gb of 1333 crucial memory, 250 GTS EVGA nVidia Card. The case is extremely cool, hovering around 35C. I put Windows 7 on it after it came out. My old computer turned into the Linux-Ubuntu machine though with all of those compiz-fusion goodies.
If I had a grand now though, I would buy a laptop since I need to do things at school which require a computer.
Lance Szydzik
February 2nd, 2010
at 2:09am
I would definitely say for $1,000 the best option would be a PC. Only because for $1,000 your only options with Apple are a Mac mini or a base level Macbook, neither of which are very powerful or have that many features. Now, if you put it at $1200 (which I know is a more odd number to say) it would open your options to an iMac, which is very cost efficient (in my mind) with that beautiful display, all of the Apple features (iSight, wireless keyboard and mighty mouse) and it’s powerful enough for the needs of most consumers.
For those who say: ‘BUT LINUX!’ you have to factor in that a LARGE majority of people have no clue how to run it or even get started with it. So my vote goes to the PC.
Ben
February 2nd, 2010
at 3:35am
Definitely a build a beast of a machine myself type guy dual booting Win7 and Ubuntu. Don’t want the hassle of a Hackintosh and would feel like a cheated if I bought a free built with it installed!
Assuming my $1000 doesn’t include having to buy accessories such as monitors. for me its all about the speed. I’m not that big a PC gamer so I’d look for some sort of i7 rig if I could get it under budget. I’d also make sure to have a fast primary disk, solid state if possible but I think that would probably be asking too much!
Neolander
February 11th, 2010
at 10:46pm
I don’t need a faster computer. The only thing making it run slow is Flash on linux (and while I think it’s horrible software, I think that a world led by H.264 with its 5M$ licensing fee would be far uglier. But it’s another debate).
If I had that much money, I would use it to make my PC silent, and give what I have left to people helping the computing world to get better on the software side (GIMP, OpenOffice…), which I think is more needed.