motherboard question

[Rockin Robbins]

I forgot about another great case company, Directron, which sells hundreds of different kinds of cases for great prices. http://www.directron.com/. Then you can free yourself from the straightjacket the PC vendors try to stick you with. The reason PCs are better than MacIntosh is that we have hundreds of companies all competing to build cheaper better components. Companies like Dell, HP, Gateway, Compaq and others try to lock you in by selling you a computer at a reasonable price and then charge top dollar for hardware and software additions or alterations.

I refuse to be a prisoner or a victim and will gladly pay money to get out of jail.

And I will not be making the mistake of buying any of the above computers again. From now on my first question to a PC vendor is, "Do you use standard form-factor components and what form-factor is the computer I'm interested in." If I get the wrong answer the phone call is over.