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I suspect that it's a lot like building your own PC these days.

Around the end of last year I decided that I needed to replace a couple of very venerable DIY Windows boxes I had for gaming and other purposes. I started pricing out CPUs, graphics cards, motherboards, and so forth and I ended up just buying a big Alienware laptop. It fit into my environment better, was certainly fast enough, didn't cost much more, and was just less hassle.

I've spent many, many hours building PCs but I was sort of "been there done that" about doing it again.