[Shorel]

Back in 1999 the common knowledge among geeks was actually 'buy Dell'.

They had better internal cabling than the competition, and have been leveraging 1999 since then.

[warfangle]

Back in 1999 the common knowledge among geeks was actually "build your own."

[lostlogin]

Build your own laptop? That's somewhat harder than the desktop build - the geeks I know never ventured into laptop builds.