(11-14-2010, 10:09 AM)LavCat Wrote: More seriously, whenever I hear "refurbished" I think of "used", which makes me think someone found something wrong with a piece of equipment and that it's not going to work. Like my answering machine.
Yes, I know, which is why I'd get the 4-year extended warranty this time!
(11-14-2010, 10:09 AM)LavCat Wrote: Why not replace the motherboard in the system that you have?
Two reasons: time, and money.
TIME: Doing that takes up a lot of time pulling out each and every component, at least a couple of hours. With all four of my kids in after-school sports and three of them on the fence with school, and between work, believe me, I cherish every hour I have.
MONEY: Inevitably, something is going to get zapped in the moving process, always does. Usually RAM, but that costs money, and to figure out what the trouble is takes more time, which I don't have. That's not to say I haven't built a computer without any problems, it's just very rare *not* to encounter some sort of trouble in the process. And to be honest, that would be the cheapest road, however maybe this is part of my excuse to get a rig capable of running upcoming software? Didn't really give that much thought. Subconscious making its influence perhaps
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