New Dell XPS 630 Arrives Wednesday

For the last 10+ years I have built every computer as needed from scratch. That means: no pre-made, take it out of the box, plug it in, surf the web 5 minutes later, type computers.

Rather, these were: buy every little component (even the screws), hand picked after researching them on the web for hours, from little hole-in-the-wall shops manned by never-to-be-married super nerds, bringing the parts home to assemble over many days a "box" that NEVER worked the first time you tried to power it up, requiring days of testing and tweaking to create a system you could call "stable."

It was fun, you could build your own for half the price, and if someone made a faster part out there in the world (this happened exactly 4 minutes after you called your system "stable.") you could open your bad boy up and replace the part. That Again, required days of testing and tweaking to call your system "stable."

So last week I had to make a decision: build or buy pre-made. Pride vs. time.

Dude, I'm get'n a Dell!




- Intel Core2 processor Q9650 (3.0GHz,1333FSB) w/Quad Core Technology and 12MB cache
- 8GB DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz - 4X2GB
- NVIDIA GEFORCE 9800GT, SLI
- SATA 2 RAID 0 With Dual 500GB Hard Drives
- Dell 19 in 1 Media Reader withBluetooth 2.0
- Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 Home Premium 64-Bit Edition English
- 6X Blu-Ray, DVD+R/RW, CD-RW Drive
- Network Card PC Interface Killer, K1
- 23 inch Samsung SyncMaster 2343BWX Widescreen Digital TFT-LCD Monitor