Some Clickbate for Everyone

[Village_Idiot]

One reason I don't own a Mac is because it's basically disposable despite its price. I don't even like oem desktop PC due to proprietary parts, especially motherboard. Build your own also means ability to upgrade or replace parts rather than recycle the entire computer.

PC OEMs have gotten away from the proprietary garbage a long time ago. It was costing them too much money to use custom motherboards and parts. It was essentially the same problem phone makers got themselves into before the EU dictated that any phone sold within the EU have a common charging/data connector. Every time they came out with a new desktop PC model, they had to re-work the manufacturing process to fit the custom parts they required to be in them.

I have a 2018 Dell Inspiron that I have upgraded the drive to an SSD, upgraded the RAM, the video card, and added a USB-3x card. I have a separate multi-drive enclosure with a DVD-RW drive and a Blu-Ray RW drive connected to the main computer via SATA. Except for the RAM, all standard parts I can get at NewEgg or Best Buy.

 

[Laura Knotek]

PC OEMs have gotten away from the proprietary garbage a long time ago. It was costing them too much money to use custom motherboards and parts. It was essentially the same problem phone makers got themselves into before the EU dictated that any phone sold within the EU have a common charging/data connector. Every time they came out with a new desktop PC model, they had to re-work the manufacturing process to fit the custom parts they required to be in them.

I have a 2018 Dell Inspiron that I have upgraded the drive to an SSD, upgraded the RAM, the video card, and added a USB-3x card. I have a separate multi-drive enclosure with a DVD-RW drive and a Blu-Ray RW drive connected to the main computer via SATA.

The other issue with oem is the cases typically don't have good airflow or don't accommodate large graphics cards. Do you have an M.2 SSD or a SATA SSD?I have Windows on the M.2 SSD, games on a SATA SSD, and other data on a traditional HDD. I use physical media so little that an external Bluray drive spends most of its time in a drawer. My backup drive is an external HDD. The games aren't backed up because they're all from GOG or Steam.

 

[Village_Idiot]

The other issue with oem is the cases typically don't have good airflow or don't accommodate large graphics cards.

That is partly true. My case is a mid-tower, not a full tower. It is the mother board that limits my graphics card choice. It has PCI Express, not the full sized PCI 64bit slot. It is still not proprietary though. If I wanted to, I could swap out the motherboard, CPU, and RAM for something newer and it will fit. But since this thing is still going strong without any problems (and on the latest version of Windows 11, Canary channel), I'm not upgrading anytime soon.

Do you have an M.2 SSD or a SATA SSD?I have Windows on the M.2 SSD, games on a SATA SSD, and other data on a traditional HDD. I use physical media so little that an external Bluray drive spends most of its time in a drawer. My backup drive is an external HDD. The games aren't backed up because they're all from GOG or Steam.

Yes for the SATA SSD and no for the M.2 SSD. The SSD I upgraded too is a 2TB Samsung EVO SATA drive. However, there is a slot for an M.2; which currently is not being used.

I chose a SATA SSD for two reasons: a) SATA was cheaper when considering $/GB than an M.2, and b) I had a cloner at work, so I could easily clone my old drive (which was failing) to the new one without special adaptors.

The only PC games I play is Civilization and Age of Empires. My daughter plays some games on my PC, but so far, she hasn't had any problems. I do image processing with Lightroom and some video processing with Premiere, but I haven't noticed it being slower than expected.

 

[Laura Knotek]

That is partly true. My case is a mid-tower, not a full tower. It is the mother board that limits my graphics card choice. It has PCI Express, not the full sized PCI 64bit slot. It is still not proprietary though. If I wanted to, I could swap out the motherboard, CPU, and RAM for something newer and it will fit. But since this thing is still going strong without any problems (and on the latest version of Windows 11, Canary channel), I'm not upgrading anytime soon.

Yes for the SATA SSD and no for the M.2 SSD. The SSD I upgraded too is a 2TB Samsung EVO SATA drive. However, there is a slot for an M.2; which currently is not being used.

I chose a SATA SSD for two reasons: a) SATA was cheaper when considering $/GB than an M.2, and b) I had a cloner at work, so I could easily clone my old drive (which was failing) to the new one without special adaptors.

The only PC games I play is Civilization and Age of Empires. My daughter plays some games on my PC, but so far, she hasn't had any problems. I do image processing with Lightroom and some video processing with Premiere, but I haven't noticed it being slower than expected.

Nice! I don't do any Photoshop or Adobe Premiere, but I play Detroit Become Human and Cyberpunk 2077, hence the need for the GPU and SSD for the games. Most of my other games aren't so resource intensive.

 

[rikken]

It's interesting that Samsung phones usually cost as much or more than iPhones... not sure where that status symbol impression comes from?

It is not about costs ime. I know people who sticks to Iphone just because they are Apple products, I even have some of them in my family

 

[Village_Idiot]

Also, as much as I hate Apple, that might actually be the push to iPhone for me. I simply do not trust Google to have full control over Android without OEMs being able to counterbalance and fix their poor decisions and broken software.

That is because Android is open source. Whereas, iOS is proprietary. If Google were to go the iOS route. It would decimate the Android market.

BTW, Google left the PRC because it wouldn't share data with the Chinese Communist Party. Apple is sharing data with the CCP. How good are the firewalls that separate US data from the PRC data?