beaumont
7th May 2003, 22:18
Is it just me or are are home computers limited to two categories:
1) the PC equivalent of a souped up Honda CRX or
2) the PC equivalent of a bloated, pseudo performance "luxury" car?
Like a race prepared Honda CRX, a geeked out gaming PC made at home by an enthusiast is probably loaded with the raciest components and performs pretty well, but let's face it -- it's a little homemade and it aint beautiful.
The "top of the line" factory desktops seem to be more like Cadillacs, or in the best case, a BMW 7-series -- maybe reasonably well built, with some emphasis on design, but in the end, NOT state of the art performance, still too much plastic, and too much emphasis on gee whiz, BS features designed mainly to impress the affluent masses, rather than really perform for a hard core geek.
So can anyone please help me buy or design the PC equivalent of a Porsche GT-2?
I don't need silly features, user friendly pictures, RAM
draining icons lurking at the bottom of my desktop, a billion useless bundled programs, cutesy prompts or internet access within 35 seconds
out of the box.
I just want a beautifully designed, bulletproof quality, state of the art, bad ass PC with a lean mean stable operating system, the best sound and video, a gorgeous monitor, a sexy, well-made case and enough memory to store a library of music and movies and/or design a plan to take over the world.
Can anyone help me spend my money, please? Should I go UNIX or something? Industrial/commercial servers rather than PC?
Calling all car and computer enthusiasts: your opinion, please.
Thank you and best wishes.
PS
And happy to hire someone to build this.
1) the PC equivalent of a souped up Honda CRX or
2) the PC equivalent of a bloated, pseudo performance "luxury" car?
Like a race prepared Honda CRX, a geeked out gaming PC made at home by an enthusiast is probably loaded with the raciest components and performs pretty well, but let's face it -- it's a little homemade and it aint beautiful.
The "top of the line" factory desktops seem to be more like Cadillacs, or in the best case, a BMW 7-series -- maybe reasonably well built, with some emphasis on design, but in the end, NOT state of the art performance, still too much plastic, and too much emphasis on gee whiz, BS features designed mainly to impress the affluent masses, rather than really perform for a hard core geek.
So can anyone please help me buy or design the PC equivalent of a Porsche GT-2?
I don't need silly features, user friendly pictures, RAM
draining icons lurking at the bottom of my desktop, a billion useless bundled programs, cutesy prompts or internet access within 35 seconds
out of the box.
I just want a beautifully designed, bulletproof quality, state of the art, bad ass PC with a lean mean stable operating system, the best sound and video, a gorgeous monitor, a sexy, well-made case and enough memory to store a library of music and movies and/or design a plan to take over the world.
Can anyone help me spend my money, please? Should I go UNIX or something? Industrial/commercial servers rather than PC?
Calling all car and computer enthusiasts: your opinion, please.
Thank you and best wishes.
PS
And happy to hire someone to build this.