I’ve been inspired by recent posts at Coding Horror to throw together a do-it-yourself computar machene. I’m no stranger to the organs of a PC, thanks to Dan Polnoff, and, due to competition, and since laptops are supposedly going to replace the desktop soon, the prices are excruciatingly low. It’s like, every five years I can’t believe I paid X for something that’s now (0.0001)X. Come on, I know some of my faithful readers had a $1200 486 back in the day. Now think about those dollars after inflation, it’s like if milk was $10 a gallon 10 years ago.

I’ve got to run, tired of sitting here for the past four hours comparing and contrasting power and prices, but I do promise I’ll detail my spoils here.