Hey guess what I have just found a very interesting list from a particular website recommending:
WHY BUY BRANDED
1. Can buy on-line
2. Can use credit cards
3. Can pay 12 or 24 months
4. Delivered to door step
5. Telephone, on-line and on-site support
6. Very often comes with free upgrade e.g. Hard disk, RAM, DVD
7. Can check computer on-line for problems
8. Don’t have to worry about the warranty period of individual component.
9. Don’t have to fill in multiple warranty cards.
10. Don’t have to get involve with RMA of hardware yourself
11. Don’t have to buy Windows CD because it’s comes with computer
12. Some come with Recovery CD and/or Recovery Image
13. Very often comes with some free software e.g. M/S Works, PowerDVD
14. Colour of casing, monitor, keyboard and mouse matches
15. Don’t have to worry about hardware compatibility problem e.g. hard disk size, RAM type, graphic card and sound card etc.
16. Don’t have to update BIOS when certain hardware are not supported
17. Drivers are provided on CD or consolidated on web site
18. Don’t have to worry whether PSU can cope with load
19. Don’t have to worry about ATA, IDE, RAID, SATA, SCSI etc.
20. Don’t have to worry about not detecting hard disk
21. Don’t have to worry about IRQ conflict
22. Don’t have to worry if exhaust can cope with heat load
23. Don’t have to activate O/S after re-install
24. Don’t have to guess if CPU, motherboard or RAM are defective because diagnostic disk is provided
25. Can re-install O/S as many times as you like; don’t have to call MS to explain
26. No duplication of software
27. All cable are to the exact length
28. You can add cards, hard disk etc as and when you like
29. Don’t have to pay for assembly
30. Can also customize.
31. Don’t have to worry if hardware are Vista compatible
32. Certain brand provides on-site support
It is indeed very hard for me to decide to go with custom ore prebuilt.