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Originally Posted by wilderness
Dave,
In 2010 I had such a store that built me a project computer for just under $300. After completing the project I've used it for other things, although sparingly.
It's a nice machine and shows how effective smart shopping and good techs may be.
There are lots of smaller 1-2 person shops in larger metro areas.
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YES! Truthfully, I still have about 6 or 7 XP machines that I set up and use for A.I. runs. Because of security issues, I would never put them on the web, but these old, Pentium 4 machines are actually plenty fast for my purposes because they OS is not as bloated as today's.
Two weeks ago I ran into an HSH user who bought a snazzy Alienware machine from Dell 18 months ago. Not sure what he actually paid but it was like approaching $3k.
How does Dell sell anyone an I7 with EIGHT CORES and only put in EIGHT GB RAM? Especially with Win10!!!
What a pig that machine was. I've got my tech guys killing all the bloatware and getting him to pump the RAM to 64GB. Hopefully, it will become the screamer that it should be.
