Warranties and Technical Support

If you are worried about warranties, you need not be. In most cases you can get a manufacturers warranty on every component you buy. As for technical support, I've had much better luck with getting questions answered through friendly helpful forums on internet than I ever have from technical support lines. Not to mention you don't have to pay to sit on hold.

Upgrades Are Painless And Fast

When you build your own computer upgrades are a snap. You've already put it together so switching a hard drive or changing graphics card is extremely easy. For instance I just upgraded my graphics card. It took me longer to unplug everything from back of my tower than it did to swap graphics card. All in all I was up and running with new drivers installed in about 10 minutes. If you are impatient like I am taking your machine to a store to have it upgraded just isn't worth wait.

How To Build Your Own Computer

I hope I've convinced you to build your own computer. It is a very rewarding experience. As I've said it isn't very difficult. I do however recommend that you do your research. There are several good books published on topic such as "Build Your Own PC", by Morris Rosenthal. You can also find a great deal of information regarding building computers and computer hardware at my website

Gavilan later failed largely due to their computer being incompatible with other computers – Mainly because Gavilan laptop used their own operating system.

Apple Computers introduced apple IIc model in 1984, but it wasn’t all that much better than what Gavilan had produced a year earlier. It did feature an optional LCD panel which had on impact on later notebooks.

Finally in 1986 a true laptop was created by IBM called IBM PC Convertible. I say “true” because unlike a few of others, this laptop didn’t have to be setup everywhere. And unlike others it featured two modern 3.5 inch floppy drives, and space for an internal modem! Also found on Convertible was an LCD screen and basic applications user could use to create word documents, and schedule appointments.

Maybe most interesting was that IBM PC Convertible sold for $3500! Of course you would be hard pressed to find that price tag on any laptop these days – (They have gone way down).

Since late 80’s many manufacturers have come forward to produce new machines that are even faster and more powerful than their previous counterparts. These days buyer has a lot of choice, and laptops are faster than ever.