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On Wednesday 24 January 2007 10:10, Adrian Midgley wrote: > Tom Potts wrote: > > If you have yourself organised (large desk space, tools etc) it takes > > about 15 minutes to put a machine together, and you can leave it > > installing while building another, which, if you build lots of identical > > machines will be quicker - I have often found opening the boxes/bags to > > be the limiting factor. So thats a £200PH saving.... > > But the components arrive in boxes? I think you'll find the PC's come in boxes too. If you buy the bits for a lot of PC's in one go the opening boxes problem tends to reduce - all your ram comes in one box, your drives in another etc so it quickly comes down to near opening pc boxes level -and you don't have the problems typing in massive license keys with linux - though there are a few companies that will build and install for you. > > > The problem with these things is quality control, isn't it. The line, > and the quality control engineer and so on seem to make a difference. In my experience putting 10 or so machines together at one go they tend to work first time, QC being a case of whether it works or not - if not check the leads and pop the ram in and out and go again. > Still, building machines is an occasionally entertaining thing. Theres those little scratches that an be got no other way.... Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html