The OP is someone wanting to build a machine for side-work, not an overly enthusiastic, green IT guy mistakenly thinking he can single-handedly provide his boss with mission-critical hardware
1. He didn't say side work. He said "side business". Work and business are not synonyms. Until the poster further details--if he does--what he means by that phrase, it is assumed he means side business in the typical sense. That is, he works a full-time job and uses some of the remaining time to run his own business. Or in others, take the words literally and don't change them. I am assuming his choice of words is
not sloppy.
If his "side business" is in line with the typical sense of the phrase, I think it quite clear you are trivializing the scope of what he is doing. More on this later.
2. Well, I would like to meet the posters who thought that, because
nothing in his two posts implied anything to the effect. Hence, they have no rational basis to think that. Care to give me their location? Also, I'm aware you could have been referring to me. But since I have given my analysis, I would have condemned myself adequately and accepted it were it actually true.
So the rationale for ignoring self-built and directly advocating prebuilt is just not very strong.
It is one thing to merely assess and advise, another to advocate; the latter implies sticking to the same "side" consistently a limited and biased scope of information that is typical in politics. An example of the former is "from these data, we conclude this is the best option". An example of the latter is "buy this" with little or biased backing.
The information
so far favors a pre-built in this particular case because it will provide him with the most benefit. Benefits include lowered risk of lost time, monetary savings, and the potential ability to dedicate those preserved resources to an actual self-built computer, thus negating the "losses" of doing the whole process of "building" a computer, from research all the way down to getting it set up and working. Or in other words, he can get all of the good without the bad. The subsequent paragraphs will provide support to these statements.
However, should sufficient information come forward and show that he benefits more with building his own, then he should go build himself.
A custom built machine can easily provide a more enriching experience in more ways than one, providing more pride in ownership and being easily tailored to the task at hand.
I distinctly recall saying something to that effect in my post. I have no reason to feel guilt nor question my own objectivity. Why did you bother to repeat the same things I said, I don't know. Oh, perhaps you didn't know I said because your brain automatically assumed that by antagonizing you, I antagonize everything represent. I've grown beyond that childish level of thinking.
If the potential builder does indeed wants certain custom features and/or the learning experience that much, sure, he can build himself.
I said those things prior to you; note that.
Of course there are risks associated with building one's own, but the OP's mere presence on this forum, and the tone of the post indicate a cursory weight of these risks has been performed,
Cursory?
Time is very limited if he already works 40 hrs a week and has a wife and kids, or even just a wife. And no, it is just my speculation. In this article from
moneycrashers, the article writer specifies what any interested party should expect to deal with so they can make their side business successful. If there are lessons to be learned from that advice. One, it takes time. Two, it can be stressful. Three, it isn't something that is just short term or something to take lightly.
What was this so-called cursory analysis has suddenly become rather detailed.
and it could be construed as condescending to tacitly tell him he probably doesn't have what it takes to support his own PC, as has been done in this thread.
Who attacked the person's abilities? Quote the exact sentence. Read it out loud. Look up the words in a dictionary. That person doesn't exist because it is not me. Disagree? You have the text to read sentence-by-sentence.
I did not say he was unable to do his own support; not one of my statements was in reference to his personal abilities. All of my statements were in reference to extrinsic(outside) variables (money, time) affecting the the person negatively.
there are very significant costs with regards to time and money in this particular case.
There are the monetary costs and there is the risk of having to be your own support, which for most people, stinks because researching and testing problems is a
tedious task.
The subordinating conjunction makes it clear that being your own support stinks because you will be bored and annoyed(definition of the word tedious).
I said that it is a massive drain on time to support computer issues because I personally had to maintain and troubleshoot various items around the house. Troubleshooting is a time killer, but I don't mind troubleshooting and actually do have the time to kill; others do mind and/or simply don't have the time to do it. In this case, it is almost certain that the committing to troubleshooting would result in some tangible loss regardless of whether or not the OP likes to do and is capable of troubleshooting
And yes, if the guy negotiates a good price(~$2000) on a hexacore workstation, he comes out with $500 to burn on a dedicated computing box for building experience and pleasure.
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