On 1/23/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Urban Nightmare</b> <<a href="mailto:urban@inetdesign.org">urban@inetdesign.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
The moral of the story. Plan your hard ware purchases! Don't always go<br>for cheapest and don't always go for newest. Listen to people when they<br>say to get a PVR-1/2/350 as they are the best I've found. Don't just
<br>settle for a 100 gig HD as you will run this out of space if you record<br>alot. Wait for the next paycheck and get at least 250. My advice to my<br>co-worker was to pick up the pieces as you can but make sure you get
<br>what you know from others will work.</blockquote><div><br>Absolutely right... the best thing is to do opportunistic buying. If you live close to a Fry's or comparable computer/electronics store/warehouse/barn, spread out your purchases over a couple of months. That way you *know* you can get the $0.20/GB hard drive special(s), the Antec Sonata for $60, the P4 mobo/CPU combo for $105, the gig of RAM for $60, etc. This applies to online shopping, too. And mail in any 0% credit card offer you have so you don't end up paying 200% of the final cost up front, or paying interest on rebates while they process.
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