Easy as my PC

You’re getting an Intel chip, a disk and a motherboard - and told to get on with it.

Over the years, I have never quite understood how it is that since the average desktop is only a sum of its parts, there isn’t more of it - self-assembly, do it yourself desktops…

The site is How to Build a Computer and getting the product is simply a case of navigating the dropdowns, choose your operating system (which is XP or Vista, with Vista as the default), choose a monitor and media reader if you want. The graphics card is also optional in the package, which is nice, you’d think maybe the opportunity would have been taken to push something not completely suitable.

If something can be done from components, then why not - I was surprised, when the time finally came to do the job how much it was just plug it all in - once the right set of wires go in the right place, that was pretty much that…