I'm sorry to say that Ashrain doesn't appear again until chapter 3. But I think she's due for a holiday pinup this year.
It used to be prior to about 2000 that it was a hands-down cost/performance benefit to build a custom system from components. This was when a good system cost $2000-3000 in parts, and a storebought system of equivalent capability cost quite a bit more, and often included parts you didn't want. Starting around 2000, thanks to retailers like Dell who would essentially sell you a quality system that you'd configured yourself from name-brand parts for close to the cost you'd pay to assemble and configure it yourself, spending the time and hassle of building the system yourself ceased to make financial sense.Random Person wrote:Huh, I always figured that you, as a software developer, would be into computers enough to build your own. Not interested in the hardware side, not enough time, or what?
Another advantage to system building was that you could assemble backup systems out of the leftover spare parts, but the rapid pace of change whithin the last 10 years has made that difficult.
Will do sir!Riess wrote:Take pictures!