***** Case choices added to the PC Builder *****
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*Whistles*
I did with my P200MMX with 32Mb RAM and a huge 1Gb hard drive! Cost me a small foryune (I was an apprentice at the time).
Oh yeah! It was from the defunct/bankrupt company Special Reserve.
It might be useful to make the existence of this feature more obvious. I didn't even know it existed until I saw this thread while idly clicking through GD and wondered what the PC Builder was. I've just looked on the front page of the site and it's tucked away in a drop-down menu without anything to draw attention to it or explain what it is.
I've known people buy from a certain big company with a short name (a competitor, obviously, so I'm not naming them), precisely because they have a very good PC "tailoring" setup on their website. It's the same thing OcUK is offering, so much so that I'm assuming you got the idea from there. It's a good selling point (pre-built PCs are often not quite what you want, but this feature allows you to alter one to exactly what you want), but a shopper is unlikely to notice it here. It might well be more of a selling point here than at the competitor I don't name - OcUK probably has a much higher proportion of customers who do know exactly what components they want, as opposed to wanting "a computer".
It's also very useful for people like me. You know how it is - a friend of a brother of a coworker wants to buy "a computer", doesn't know what to buy and they get directed to me for advice. I'm not willing to buy all the components and build a PC for them as a favour, but I am willing to ask what they really want to do with it and then point them in the direction of a prebuilt system locally that's a good match for what they really want and their budget - or online with one of your competitors that offers the service you call PC Builder. Now that you have it, I can do it here instead.
I've known people buy from a certain big company with a short name (a competitor, obviously, so I'm not naming them), precisely because they have a very good PC "tailoring" setup on their website. It's the same thing OcUK is offering, so much so that I'm assuming you got the idea from there. It's a good selling point (pre-built PCs are often not quite what you want, but this feature allows you to alter one to exactly what you want), but a shopper is unlikely to notice it here. It might well be more of a selling point here than at the competitor I don't name - OcUK probably has a much higher proportion of customers who do know exactly what components they want, as opposed to wanting "a computer".
It's also very useful for people like me. You know how it is - a friend of a brother of a coworker wants to buy "a computer", doesn't know what to buy and they get directed to me for advice. I'm not willing to buy all the components and build a PC for them as a favour, but I am willing to ask what they really want to do with it and then point them in the direction of a prebuilt system locally that's a good match for what they really want and their budget - or online with one of your competitors that offers the service you call PC Builder. Now that you have it, I can do it here instead.
Rupert The Bear?