Cereal
I’m constantly being surprised by the low cost of PC’s and PC components. Whenever I see the price of things on Overclockers, usually because I’m there buying more hard disks, I wonder how long it’s going to be before PC’s are being given away with cereal packets (although it’s obvious they’ll be giving away DVD players first).
But when it actually comes to putting together a new machine, the costs quickly mount up and all of a sudden things don’t seem so cheap anymore. For a new WOPR, my video server, which I’d also like to give PVR support to (via MythTV probably), the costs are almost up to £700. I’m not even buying the best parts available, there are far better CPU, motherboard and graphics combinations I could put in there, but it’s still far more than I expected it would be.
So don’t be fooled. PC’s may be getting cheaper, but Tony the Tiger isn’t going to be swapping his decoder rings for them any time soon.
