The reason why it was difficult finishing it on time is that I have taken some time off to spend it with Kate this week. I still hope that I could think of an interesting topic for you. I even wonder how many readers of this website are taking the effort of putting their own system together with single components from scratch. Thus I think it makes sense focussing on systems rather than single components in this Monday Blurb. People who go out looking for a complete system are much better targets for marketing campaigns, because it is much more difficult to have an overview over 10 different components than simply picking one part that suits you best.
Complete systems sell a lot better over the price than anything else.
Many of us accept a few mid or even low-range components in a system that s overall cheap, and the ones of us who want to spend a lot of money are mostly guided by brand names like Compaq, Dell or Gateway, rather than the particular components inside this system. The average user doesn t have the time, nor the desire to do a major research that could easily take several weeks. He decided long enough how much of his money he wants to spend for his computer, and once the decision has been made, he wants to get that long awaited system as soon as possible. The start for almost anyone of us, regardless if he purchases a whole system or builds one up from scratch, is to decide which processor is going to be running the system. If you look at the ads supplied by all the large and also the smaller OEMs and system integrators, you will always find that that the displayed systems are most of the time only determined by the processor.