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On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 07:50:34 GMT, (Don Pearce)
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Everything in one box? You have no idea of the deep joy you will
experience when one little bit of that goes wrong. You will stand
gazing at your one box, and wishing earnestly that you could - please
- just unplug the offending bit and replace it. You will go to your
local PC store and see all those replacement hard drives, power
supplies, cases and other bits costing almost no money and you will
think "but it is only two inches thick; that makes me a winner,
surely?".
It would be a terrible shame to lose the interchange-ability of
ordinary PC computers. We take them for granted, but no other
consumer product has this. Can you fit Chevy wheels on your Ford?
The standardization of PCI slots, IDE, even power supplies, memory,
etc. is a wonderful anomaly on a world of proprietary everything.
Just say no. Well, maybe.
Chris Hornbeck
" ** this NG is chock full of metal midgets"
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