• DarkThoughts@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Why would you buy that? Overpriced and with that case it’s no wonder that things get toasty. There’s like fuck all for airflow. If you want a case with wood accents, there’s the North from Fractal Design, which have great airflow thanks to their open fronts.

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      1 year ago

      I’m so happy something like this exists. I hate RGB and love wood on my electronics. Think I’m gonna pick one of these up.

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      I didn’t buy it for a gaming machine. I was pleasantly surprised that a fancy new Windows game ran on it at all!

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      Because it’s open source i.e. fully upgradable and repairable, and the mission behind the company is something I would want to support.

      It’s a prebuilt company that doesn’t use proprietary garbage to force each and every customer to buy an entire new system when their original purchase starts to become obsolete.

      I don’t own anything from system76, I’ve built my own my whole life, but I still believe prebuilts should be for people who can’t build their own, not a timeless and somehow socially acceptable way to scam your customer and still have them come back for more

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        Are there prebuilt desktop PCs that aren’t? I have personally yet to see one, even though I build my own. Maybe some small form-factor office rigs would be a hassle, but those are not really marketed to usecases where upgrading makes much sense anyway,

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        That doesn’t make sense. Many hardware stores offer an assembly of your hand picked hardware, which gives you 100% control over the components and actually fair prices, as well as the option to use a more sensible case. Of course it costs a bit extra to let them do that and you have to buy everything in one store, which might be more expensive than spreading it out, but it is still better than 90% of those prebuilt systems.
        And nothing there is open source, you can install Linux on any computer you want, regardless of where it came from. They just save the Windows license costs.