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Four years ago, I made a big mistake buying one HP computer after building all of my own since the mid-80s. The HP computer had no way to add a second hard drive! Even if I broke their plastic drive housing to squeeze one in, there was no power supply lead for it and, even worse, no free SATA port on the motherboard to connect it. Obviously, this motherboard was designed just for the prefab PC, and that's all.



I think this is true for nearly any non-house brand these days. I looked at what appeared to be a juicy deal on a Lenovo tower about 6 months ago. Once I got inside the thing online with the manual (at least Lenovo still do proper manuals), I could see that there was ZERO expandability in the box for anything, drives, cards, you name it.

I passed.

However, I probably will never buy another desktop. Plenty powerful lappys for recording work in the under $500 range and oh-so portable and handy for other stuff.

I've been stuffing things in PC cases since about 1983 so it's hard for me to say this. One brand I used to buy alot of back in the late 80's was Zenith. Their cases were a thing of beauty, rolled over edges on every die-cut-line on sheet metal parts inside - no way to gash yourself inside. Then my employer switched to digital and what a let-down. Almost had to start wearing leather gloves to avoid cutting the backs of my hands.

The 'joy' of DIY as it pertains to building a PC is gone for me. The last one I built, I spent probably 25% extra to make it 'quiet' per silentpcreview recommendations. Sucker is still way louder than any laptop on the market.

-Scott

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