Very sorry to hear that about the Canadian market.
It's just the way of things when you live in a low-population-density market. Nothing here is as cheap as in the U.S., even when our dollar is unusually strong, because there just isn't enough genuine capitalism possible to compete for said buck. This is especially noticeable for electronics.
You seem to have a pretty firm idea of what you want.
I do indeed. I'm just fishing for ways to get what I want without paying a premium, or for ways to get more bells and whistles if I must pay that premium. What has me asking publicly this year is the seeming explosion in motherboard and processor choices. There's more out there than there ever was in the past, and it seems bizarre that two P45 boards with Gigabit, PCIe 2.0, etc., can be at $60 and $500.
In your copious free time, of course.
Heh, yeah, that. What specifically takes time that I hate to burn is the install-reboot cycles as you stick drivers for each device on the machine, and then the day spent talking to Windows to convince it that everything is kosher. The purely hardware parts don't really bug me.
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It's just the way of things when you live in a low-population-density market. Nothing here is as cheap as in the U.S., even when our dollar is unusually strong, because there just isn't enough genuine capitalism possible to compete for said buck. This is especially noticeable for electronics.
You seem to have a pretty firm idea of what you want.
I do indeed. I'm just fishing for ways to get what I want without paying a premium, or for ways to get more bells and whistles if I must pay that premium. What has me asking publicly this year is the seeming explosion in motherboard and processor choices. There's more out there than there ever was in the past, and it seems bizarre that two P45 boards with Gigabit, PCIe 2.0, etc., can be at $60 and $500.
In your copious free time, of course.
Heh, yeah, that. What specifically takes time that I hate to burn is the install-reboot cycles as you stick drivers for each device on the machine, and then the day spent talking to Windows to convince it that everything is kosher. The purely hardware parts don't really bug me.