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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cloudane" data-source="post: 42306">Everything has disadvantages, and that's one of them.  On the other hand, it makes Macs wonderfully predictable and reliable as you don't have obscure problems caused by different mixtures of hardware, mismatching FSB rates, driver conflicts, and people fretting about what type of heatsink goo they use etc.  Personally, after about 15 years of building and tinerking, I'm about ready to accept computers as appliances.  It's not like I have anything to prove.  How many people build their own houses?  Mobile phones?  Cars?  TVs?  Washing machines?  It comes to a stage when all you want is a computer that works, and predictably.  Building your own computer has awesome rewards and PCs are wonderful that way.  Just sometimes, it's better to be standard.</blockquote>

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