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Re: The end of the road for the DIY PC?

From	"Chimbo" <chimbox@gmail.com>
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Subject	Re: The end of the road for the DIY PC?
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Date	2013-03-17 08:20 +0100
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e42091e46e4c@n8g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>
Flasherly <Flasherly@live.com> wrote:
>
> On Dec 2, 11:55 am, Gerald Abrahamson <jerr...@visi.com> wrote:
> >
> > All of this significantly changes the market for
> > computers--in favor of the consumer.
>
> Pipe dreams.  It's all too critical a interdependency of overall
> standards in balance with MPU-dependencies, accounting engineering
> design and third-party chipset support.  No one is interested in
> dumbing it down, a few decades into the past, for stick-toy Lego plug-
> in computer, one size fits all.  This is rocket science, after all, or
> ballistics and code-breaking as computers have heralded -- ostensibly,
> aides to a new age of augmenting accountability to the miniscule --
> and thereby a shifting focus available to modern man, a certain aspect
> to defraying tedium for exactitudes, formerly unavailable to thought
> processes.
>
> This one size, tableted wonder for superceding, of late, is precisely
> consumer oriented.  Well-within expectancies and dependencies society
> has adapted to a provisionary will and role science, as engineers,
> accommodate as Hagel's beneficiary to the commonwealth of all.  Life
> is so simple and easier if in as inasmuch it's an expectancy and
> behest, dare we say, granted and given down to us.  There's less to
> think upon, actually, to exercise will over discretionary matters not
> provided, by course, from advertorial discretion provided by firms
> engaged at Madison and 5th. Ave

Snorrr...

Don't be a defeatist.  Independent builders account for a big 
chunk of revenue.

If US manufacturers decide to cut independents out, the Chinese 
and Indians will only be too happy to cut us back in.

Of course, it wouldn't be the first time Intel did something 
stupid...and ultimately paid the price for it.

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