grawk

Alpine CDA-9851 w/ sirius connect, so I can listen to the grateful dead channel at 150mph.

3.91 limited slip differential from a 735 to put into my 535. Door lock actuators to go into the same 535.

Torx is the best choice, honestly. Least likely to strip. Hex next, philips last. And really, come on, more screws isn't to keep people out, it's to hold things together better. You'd be bitching that he put it together in a shoddy manner if he used fewer.

Not to mention a 2mm allen wrench is hardly a rare tool.

google is your friend

I'd recommend checking out the vizio sets at costco etc too. I bought 2 vizio 37" displays this spring (during a woot off), and couldn't be happier.

So gramma, tell us what it was like in the days before dirt

That's not what your signature says Nan. Besides, when I was in high school, I had to walk to school each day, both ways, in the snow, up hill. And I was happy with my sony earbuds that came with my cassette walkman.

ECU for my E34

Nate, I agree. That's why we have 3 laptops and a mac mini . The kids have a dell desktop I bought for them 3 years ago, but when the time comes, it'll be macbooks for them too.

Did you include things like firewire and comparable video boards, dvd burner, etc?

Ok, you've done that enough that I just have to correct you. It's i2s. Not is2.

I used froogle, and picked good quality parts. If you skimp on the quality, then I'm not gonna argue, you can definitely build a shitty linux box for less than an imac

I just specced out a full sized desktop comparable to the imac 2.8ghz core 2 extreme, and it was about $1400. Plus labor, plus additional clutter and desk real estate. No warranty. No operating system. No keyboard, no mouse. So add $175 for vista ultimate oem, and you're at $1575. Add $50 for a decent keyboard and mouse . $1625. So you're saving about $600, which is a decent amount of savings. But you're not getting the warranty, you're not getting the integration, and you're not getting the form factor. Not to mention, you're still not getting OS X, although theoretically you could get the hacked version that would run on that system. But really, the high end is just listed on the website to show it's possible. You can get a similar configuration but with the 2.4ghz processor and 1gb of ram, and a 250gb disk refurbed for $1450. Downgrade the above home built system to those specs and you're at about $1300.

The apple website, under mac deals. I paid $480 for a mac core duo w/ 1gb ram, 80gb drive, superdrive, and 1.83ghz processor. Comparing an imac to a self built multiple chassis setup isn't exactly an apples to apples comparison. The imac is what it is, a 20" display housing a computer, where you only need to have 1 cable.

Just look at hte refurbs, that's where the deals are. I've gotten exactly 1 new mac of all the macs I've owned. The rest have been refurbs.

sound, wifi, optimized X?

You'd want a mac for needledrops anyway. Get a cheap mini if you don't already have a mac.

Fully functional and ready to run a compiler, maybe.

yup

linux is only cheap if your time has no value.

Just pick up an apogee duet, use that for the ADC, and start doing 24/96 captures

midget porn?

$ whoami grawk $ id uid=0(grawk) gid=1(wheel) $

$ apt-get microsoft\ office What? Are you KIDDING ME? Buy a mac, cheapskate $