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What was the last OEM desktop that you have/had before you started building PCs

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why are iMacs so overpiced? building myself an X99 Rig that destroys an iMac and is also nearly £1000 cheaper

???? Imacs are around 1000

n0ah1897, on 05 Mar 2014 - 2:08 PM, said:  "Computers are like girls. It's whats in the inside that matters.  I don't know about you, but I like my girls like I like my cases. Just as beautiful on the inside as the outside."

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Emaschine T5212. Not that bad, but really slow on windows 7

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Dell Dimension 4600 with a pentium 4... My first desktop and last pre-built desktop... Thank God :P 

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until November of last year I had the 2009 Mac Mini as my desktop.

Now I use it as a HTPC

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7 years ago...

 

Never owned a laptop.

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why are iMacs so overpiced? building myself an X99 Rig that destroys an iMac and is also nearly £1000 cheaper

The form factor and marketing.

 

It's a great build quality for the form factor, nice display, and it's quiet.

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an iMac 21.5" from arround 2011 or so. Although the last proper PC was a Mitac system from 2001... It was no. Just no.

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Sony, I have no idea what the model was but it was a long time ago, thing was a tank.

I roll with sigs off so I have no idea what you're advertising.

 

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A Toshiba Satelite from 2008ish with a celeron, 2gb of RAM, and a 152 gb hard drive

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Well from personal experience, Dell tends to lock you down when it comes to hardware upgrades. For example, My vostro 400 (which is still active in use but not by me) has a Core 2 Quad Q6600, a 64-bit cpu but is held back by a 32-bit motherboard...so it is stuck at 4GB

WHY WOULD THEY BE SUCH DICKS WHEN IT COMES TO UPGRADING?!

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I'm using my last OEM PC before I build my primary system. Mine is not a desktop, it's an HP ENVY m6-1184ca AMD-based laptop. It's decent for what it is. Could be better, but it's decent.

 

My last OEM desktop was a Certified Data PC. I think it's a cross between OEM and custom build as Certified Data is a brand belonging to a Canadian retail chain, London Drugs. So it's a "London Drugs Certified Data", technically speaking. That computer was also completely unlocked in terms of overclocking. I was able to get its processor overclocked from its stock 2.1GHz to 2.9GHz. Its BIOS has all the options that you can set to dictate memory speeds and timings, processor multipliers and voltages, and, if you had a compatible GPU, you could overclock that there too.

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This REALLY old desktop from 2005-06. It was a family system and had an athlon 2000+ cpu, some Nvidia gpu, XP, 128mb of ram, an a 78 Gb HDD (this was back when I was really young and wasn't a techie). I still have the monitor but its 1440x900p and the color saturation looks terrible. Haven't used it since we got some asus laptop 4 years later and stopped using it. It's gone now  :(

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Dell dimension 2300 xD

Can be found on my profiIe

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Personally did not own any OEMs. I had however a Compaq Presario Desktop for a bit (present from my school after winning a competition), however it died a horrible death just 4 months after using it. It was actually the HDD on it that went bad (if anyone used a Maxtor BigFoot storage knows how noisy and bad these drives could be). 

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my brother pc that im useing as a foot rest right now a i7-920 and 4860 i think?

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lag 775 shuttle 

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My computer 5 years ago. HP P6213W, had W7, a Dual Core, 6 GB of RAM and Intel Motherboard integrated.

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Never had a brand PC, ever since my first 8088 I have build my own.

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An iMac G3. Yes, that iMac G3. Yes, that OS9.
 

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Now do you understand why I started building computers?

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An iMac G3. Yes, that iMac G3. Yes, that OS9.

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Now do you understand why I started building computers?

Duuude. I was just going to say the exact same one. Although I had Xubuntu on it. Was actually useable with that lightweight os and a 233 MHZ CPU. I would have kept using it or replace the old innards with a NUC, but unfortunately it's now expired with a broken analog board. I'll fix it at some point though as it's very pretty. Also, it came with OS8 didn't it?

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