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darious00777
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Sup
Well, personally, I feel that designs on cases etc, should be more a customised thing, not churned out as a standard manufacturing and marketing gimmick to make people "feel special" about their rigs. Done some custom spray painting etc for peoples rigs, and it looked good, while each had a unique feel to it, without going over the top or paying through the nose.
But, if they're running with it, means they're coining it, so viva le free enterprise and people wanting standard paint jobs.
(note irony as cars etc are under same umbrella essentially)
Well, personally, I feel that designs on cases etc, should be more a customised thing, not churned out as a standard manufacturing and marketing gimmick to make people "feel special" about their rigs. Done some custom spray painting etc for peoples rigs, and it looked good, while each had a unique feel to it, without going over the top or paying through the nose.
But, if they're running with it, means they're coining it, so viva le free enterprise and people wanting standard paint jobs.
(note irony as cars etc are under same umbrella essentially)
Yeah, unfortunately the moola always is a big motivating factor. The jobs i did basically the costs were just covered, with nearly no profit, but i enjoyed doing it, plus was good recreation, but where i stay not really a viable business idea, as the town's pretty small and money in short supply. Still, one does one's best eh?
Listen, I'm from SA, am curious about American salaries, gross annual income etc, as opposed to the prices. What is an average salary in dollars, as opposed to, say , a 1 GB stick o ram or a months rent? Tyring to see how disproportionate our prices are out here.
Listen, I'm from SA, am curious about American salaries, gross annual income etc, as opposed to the prices. What is an average salary in dollars, as opposed to, say , a 1 GB stick o ram or a months rent? Tyring to see how disproportionate our prices are out here.
apache_lives
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Well, here in Utah, USA, our average salary is somewhere between 20,000-33,000 USD/yr, versus average retail 1GB ddr2 is around 140-150USD (brick and mortar stores) versus web, I got Kingston HyperX DDR400 (ddr1) 2.0-3-2-6 for 90.99 from Newegg, I make ~2500$/mo, so it's kinda like 1 shift at work for me to buy that.
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Holy crap! Grrrrr!
Getting ripped here! Myself, basically getting R36K/annum, but a 1GB DDR2 667Mhz costs like freaking R1300 - R1500!!! half my monthly salary on a memory module? HELL NO!!!! I want to obtain another module so i can run dual channel, but sheez, having to save for months to buy 1 stick is REALLY a pain in the ass! Hoddang!
Maybe should go work in USA to get some ACTUAL money in order to buy components! Hehehehe! Not this banana leaf printed haggis!
Holy crap! Grrrrr!
Getting ripped here! Myself, basically getting R36K/annum, but a 1GB DDR2 667Mhz costs like freaking R1300 - R1500!!! half my monthly salary on a memory module? HELL NO!!!! I want to obtain another module so i can run dual channel, but sheez, having to save for months to buy 1 stick is REALLY a pain in the ass! Hoddang!
Maybe should go work in USA to get some ACTUAL money in order to buy components! Hehehehe! Not this banana leaf printed haggis!
The scary thing is, yes, it probably would be! My machine, for what it cost me, would get me a one way to USA (excl. visas etc)! thats about r6500 right there! am very sad now!!! btw how do you display ones computer specs at the bottom of every message? would like to do that! (even though its a crappy little machine, but still! Its me baby!)
darious00777
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Uhh, Hitler? Must be missing something. Didn't he get hanged and burned. Don't think anything happened to his car though.
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Very old news, still silly/funny I suppose.
I believe its MSI just started making one with "real" bling. As in diamonds and crap around the touchpad area and costs a small fortune. I guess when you run with the Bill Gates' of the world it takes something this bizarre and over the top to stand out to your friends ? hehe
I believe its MSI just started making one with "real" bling. As in diamonds and crap around the touchpad area and costs a small fortune. I guess when you run with the Bill Gates' of the world it takes something this bizarre and over the top to stand out to your friends ? hehe
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I think they did this back a while with Daewoo cars...buy one, get a free Daewoo VCR/DVD combo. J/K...seriously, when is the Kia Spectra USB drive going to be available?
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Well I am a proud owner of an original Acer Ferrari. At the time it was quite the beast and the only laptop around with the following specs
- 512MB of RAM opposed to 256MB most machines had
- 60GB hard drive opposed to the 40 or 30gb most had
- dedicated 128MB ATI video opposed to onboard shared intel video most had
- It had integrated wireless G while some didn't have wireless at all at the time...centrino was jsut starting to hit the market
- It had bluetooth and infrared...nice features
- 4 USB 2.0 ports most laptops had 2 max and were not even USB 2.0
- firewire while most laptops lacked this
- High end 15" screen
- Dual format DVD burner...most machines had a CD-R/DVD combo
All this was at an affordable $2000 Canadian or around $1500 US. Not bad. Other than you would have to go Alienware or Voodoo PC and pay well over $3000 for something equivalent or better.
My original Ferrari is almost 3 years old and still kicking XP just fine with an AMD 2500+, 512MB RAM, 128MB dedicated video. I'd say not bad. Today though its all fulescreen fully loaded system for $1000. Not sure how the new Ferrari would stack up.
Asus is unoriginal with the Lamborghini. Trying to copy Acer. I hope Asus rots and people finally wake up and realized there are better products on the market than Asus including Abit, EVGA, ACER, Antec, etc....
- 512MB of RAM opposed to 256MB most machines had
- 60GB hard drive opposed to the 40 or 30gb most had
- dedicated 128MB ATI video opposed to onboard shared intel video most had
- It had integrated wireless G while some didn't have wireless at all at the time...centrino was jsut starting to hit the market
- It had bluetooth and infrared...nice features
- 4 USB 2.0 ports most laptops had 2 max and were not even USB 2.0
- firewire while most laptops lacked this
- High end 15" screen
- Dual format DVD burner...most machines had a CD-R/DVD combo
All this was at an affordable $2000 Canadian or around $1500 US. Not bad. Other than you would have to go Alienware or Voodoo PC and pay well over $3000 for something equivalent or better.
My original Ferrari is almost 3 years old and still kicking XP just fine with an AMD 2500+, 512MB RAM, 128MB dedicated video. I'd say not bad. Today though its all fulescreen fully loaded system for $1000. Not sure how the new Ferrari would stack up.
Asus is unoriginal with the Lamborghini. Trying to copy Acer. I hope Asus rots and people finally wake up and realized there are better products on the market than Asus including Abit, EVGA, ACER, Antec, etc....
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You know what I think is funny, the fact that you're laughing at it. :roll:
I have to say, I at least grinned at the sheer stupidity of the idea. Then I laughed, thinking about the 'might have beens' out there...
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