Add to John's remarkes, the very real probability that you will get a
proprietary MOBO, fewer drive bays on average, and many times strange
peripherals and cases that render REAL upgrading an impossibility.
Eic

John Chin wrote:
>
> 8/30/1998 Changhsu Liu wrote:
> >
> >I asked whether I should buy a name-brand PC instead of building it by
> >myself a few days ago. Sorry that I'd to bring up similar topics on a PC I
> >saw in Best Buy.It's a UMAX Pentium IImmx 300MHZ for $999
>
> Liu:
>
> Please remember that this mailing list is dedicated to building,
> repairing and upgrading microcomputers. This is not a consumer
> products list.
<SNIP>

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