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Broco
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 Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 4:03 am |
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| internisus wrote: |
| security (which I have never, ever worried about; who would want to gain access to my computer?) |
Lots of people actually! Spammers, adwarers and denial-of-service blackmailers like to build gigantic armies of computers that they then exploit for profit (incidentally slowing your PC to a crawl). I've heard guesstimates that upwards of 25% of home desktop computers are part of these "botnets".
It's not that hard to avoid being caught by them: just always stay behind a hardware firewall, install all updates as soon as they are released, and don't click on blatantly suspicious links. But don't think that you aren't at risk.
And I would say, yeah, just buy mid-range hardware. It ends up quite a lot cheaper overall to refresh mid-range hardware every so often than to attempt to "future-proof" by buying high-end hardware once. In three years today's high-end and mid-range will look more or less equally crappy, and then you'll feel dumb about having paid so much. |
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Broco
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| Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 1:11 am |
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| Building your own computer has always been rather simple -- buy components, slot them into each other in the only way that fits -- but I find it tiresome how all the details need to be relearned every 6 months. |
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Broco
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| Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 9:42 pm |
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I have this. It's a good deal; the main problem with it is that the colors are washed-out (as some of the reviewers note), but unless you are an artist of some kind, the sheer bigness more than makes up for it. |
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