Quote Originally Posted by Scott Campbell
Quote Originally Posted by MJZiggy
I think I'm more confused than when I started...

I'm not surprised. The suggestions are all over the board. I like Skin's advice the best - treat it as a disposable purchase. Don't over buy on specs.
That's the thing. I don't give a donkey fuck about what's inside the computer anymore. When they started coming up with all their clever nicknames for the motherfucking processors and made it impossible to compare across brand much less across nicknames, I said fuck it. I'll just spend what I consider fair for 3 years or so of usage and make the numbers as big as I can without worrying about all the minute details that won't end up meaning shit to me anyway. So applying a filter in Photoshop's going to take 4.6 seconds or 3.4 seconds. What the fuck do I care when I'm farting in the fan on a daily basis?