I hate to agree with you but what has the space program really delivered to the american/russian/chinease/etc... people but a more efficient nuclear weapons delivery platform?
There are a lot of enviromentally friendly programs that have grown under the patronage of the space program but at what cost? Have we paid for our solar summers with our nuclear winters?
I belive that 99.9 percent of the time integrated components work just fine. In the case of your law firm you could have put in a 3rd party ide card. And concerns of not being bootable, why not just use a bootdisk?
Integration of components used to be a pain in the rear, but hardware has gotten better, and so have the drivers. I bought a Gigabyte mobo for about 130 earlier this year. It has integrated nic and audio including the other standard stuff. Should I have to buy a 100 mobo, then lay out thirty or fourty bucks more per part for extra cards?
As for dead ports on the back of the machine, I imagine that you probably have open PCI slots on machines that are just dying to be used. Give them a shot.
Integration is not a bad thing if it is implemented properly. But the devil is in the details on that one. 810 chipset video is nothing to write home about, but hey buyer beware!
Honestly most people don't care about that stuff, they just want a good cheap computer, and if it came to saving 5 or 10 bucks on a port that they are never going to use, they would rather save the money.
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I hate to agree with you but what has the space program really delivered to the american/russian/chinease/etc... people but a more efficient nuclear weapons delivery platform?
There are a lot of enviromentally friendly programs that have grown under the patronage of the space program but at what cost? Have we paid for our solar summers with our nuclear winters?
I belive that 99.9 percent of the time integrated components work just fine. In the case of your law firm you could have put in a 3rd party ide card. And concerns of not being bootable, why not just use a bootdisk?
Integration of components used to be a pain in the rear, but hardware has gotten better, and so have the drivers. I bought a Gigabyte mobo for about 130 earlier this year. It has integrated nic and audio including the other standard stuff. Should I have to buy a 100 mobo, then lay out thirty or fourty bucks more per part for extra cards?
As for dead ports on the back of the machine, I imagine that you probably have open PCI slots on machines that are just dying to be used.
Give them a shot.
Integration is not a bad thing if it is implemented properly. But the devil is in the details on that one. 810 chipset video is nothing to write home about, but hey buyer beware!
Honestly most people don't care about that stuff, they just want a good cheap computer, and if it came to saving 5 or 10 bucks on a port that they are never going to use, they would rather save the money.