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What PC prefab would you buy

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View Poll Results: What Prefab company would you buy from?
Alienware 1 6.25%
Compac 0 0%
Dell 2 12.50%
Gateway 0 0%
HP 3 18.75%
Mac 1 6.25%
Other 4 25.00%
None 5 31.25%
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Old Jun 7th, 05, 7:43 AM
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What PC prefab would you buy

I personaly would not buy any computer prefabed because I have know idea what it could do and what I could put in it unless I poped it open ruining the waranty.



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Old Jun 7th, 05, 9:04 AM
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Ewwww. None. Custom Build for me.

EDIT: I may buy a mac, 'coz I like macs, or an Alienware just to say I have one of their cases.
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Old Jun 7th, 05, 3:05 PM
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I'd only buy laptops prefab.
I would buy a Dell, an Alienware, or an Acer



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Old Jun 7th, 05, 3:16 PM
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Mac's all the way baby
I've handled purchasing 4 dell's in the last month. I have to say that I've been very dissapointed with how they run. And they come loaded with so much junk that they're basically unusuable.
As a baseline these are 2.8Ghz machines with 512MB of RAM running Windows XP. Out of the box common desktop tasks, such as right clicking and opening 'My Computer' takes LONGER than the same action takes on the computers we were placing (350-450Mhz with 128MB of RAM running Windows 2000). Yes, they were so loaded down with crap that they ran THAT slow. It was awful.



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If I had to buy from one of those companies and custom built was not an option, I'd get a Business model from HP.



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Old Jun 7th, 05, 6:09 PM
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I would have to say possibly mac, but more than likely none. I can confirm what Fenis says about Dell's. They are completely loaded with crap.



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I vote Alienware... I hear they come with very few usless things installed.



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Old Jun 8th, 05, 3:59 AM
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Alienware's wireing is falty... macs are not user friendly for me, Dell is no good, HP and Compac are really the same company but build semi reliable pc's for the price, and I dont like cow advertisement for gateways and they take too long to boot




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If I had to get one for myself I would prolly go with an HP. If you asked me 2 years ago I would say Dell. It seems their build quality has gone down recently.
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custom build for me, as i built my beast, but if i had to buy a pre made one, i'd go for Dell, my family comp is a Dell, and it's been faithfull to me for about 5 years



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