^^^With all due respect, my take on name brand/off the shelf PCs is that they are usually cheaper than build your own machines. The single biggest cost savings being the Windows operating system. They also tend to use cheaper (inferior quality) parts than you would use if you were building your own machine.
FWIW, I have always built my own machines - for sound editing (LP transfers and clean ups many years ago) and for my professional stuff - enterprise Oracle databases. I am getting very near the end of my rope with Windows 7, and have no interest in 8 or 8.1. But I also fear that I won't have much more ease in doing my database stuff on a Mac. I figure I'll go Linux some day.
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