Blog » Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage. Build Your Own PC. It is increasingly popular to build your own computer.
In most cases, it saves money, and it guarantees you get what you want. It also assures you avoid proprietary designs many companies use to keep you coming to them for new parts. Best of all, having built the system yourself, you become very familiar with that system and with computers in general. People from all walks of life today build their own PCs. Build a Hackintosh Mac for Under $800. @iFrodo: I'm not really sure where you're getting your figures from here.
Going on newegg.com, I can get a Samsung 24-inch LCD for $449 before rebate, $399 after, not the 330+270=$500 figure you quote in your post (and if I settle for a generic, I can go even cheaper, down to $369. But, just to keep things fair, I'll go with Samsung, which is a brand name with a good rep). Considering that the build quotes $150 for 4 1GB sticks of RAM, 1GB would be $37.50, much less than the $150-90=60 you mention.