OEM’s are mass produced for one thing. And sometime cost of inventory is
huge so they have to clean it up anyway. And some other time ( hopefully not
a regular case ) it is just plain evil to get the small-shop out of
business. And there might be bundle more causes for this thing to happen !!!
On the otherhand, the labor cost ( if not anything else), is bit high for
individually build machine, and I sincerly think that it is only for those
customers who wants to pick-n-choose.
Few months ago, I was able to buy a 64 bit dual-core ( ready to run the
marthon 
machine for about 200 plus some odd dollars. Well, of course we
are talking about US market now. No OS whatsoever ( it is sometime cheaper
to have a family package vista - one ultimate, two others premium ).
Back in the 386 days I used to have one machine for multiboot ( win3.1,
nt3.1, os2). Need to feed a family so there was no telling which way the
wind would start to blow :). Couple crashes made me to start separating the
os and build machine(s) on my own. Fry’s was good enough to keep the
componenents need ( scci, ata, vga, svga, MO …). And in sillicon valley
there were many thrifty stores that would have spare components (used ) and
could be had for a small change. In 186 and 286 days, I used to be scared
off by the admin people ( main story was - hey you might generate huge
static to ruin the drive or the chipset ). After couple times, playing with
programmer and ICE it seemed like lot of floklore than anything else.
Now comparing the time one would spend to hand-assemble a machine, off the
shelf machines ( without OS ) is quite cheap ( unless someone is up against
game machines - those have cool cooling systems
Whatever the case may be, … it is hard to tell why is this the case in
some country like Russia !!!
-pro
----- Original Message -----
From: “Peter Wieland”
To: “Windows System Software Devs Interest List”
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 6:37 PM
Subject: RE: RE:[ntdev] Mixing C and C++ files in a driver project.
Yes - that sounds truly horrible and evil.
-p
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com] On Behalf Of
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Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 9:27 AM
To: Windows System Software Devs Interest List
Subject: RE:[ntdev] Mixing C and C++ files in a driver project.
BTW, what I forgot to mention in my previous post is that the
newly-assembled machine was Vista-free, while the OEM version always comes
with Vista. Therefore, assuming someone who needs Vista and display, the
resulting conclusion is that buying OEM PC is more than twice cheaper,
compared to assembling the one in a shop…
Anton Bassov
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