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Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:54:49 +1030
From: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ramback: faster than a speeding bullet
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Daniel Phillips wrote:
> when you spend more money and buy all high end near-custom gear.  In
> fact, the cheap stuff just keeps on chugging, because those guys can't
> afford to have it break.
>
> So please don't underestimate the reliability of a PC.
>   

I strongly disagree.  Cheap PC hardware is not even close to the quality
of a serious, branded machine.  Often capacitors are missing from power
lines, and the ones that are installed fail sooner.  Cooling fans are
lower quality and fail much sooner.  Timing issues abound.

There's a reason why an IBM is a better machine than a "Black-n-Gold":
IBM value their name so when you have a problem, they have a problem. 
Buy generic and when you get a problem they already have your money and
since they have no investment in their name, they have nothing more to
care about.
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