One has to remember the KW area is pretty computer savvy and it isn't always
that cheap or easy to assemble your own machine in other parts of the world.

$275 doesn't buy you much of a custom assembled system in most parts of the
States or even T.O. I always thought it was the two universities and
multiple colleges that drive the areas tech prices.

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Any computer customer in the "free world" can buy all the components
required to build a computer, and assemble it, following relatively
complete and simple instructions, in half an hour or less. He can run
whatever flavour of whatever OS he wants on that machine, with no
interference from Microsoft or anyone else - and it can be totally
"intel free" if he is stupid enough (inmy opinion) to go that route.

There are small computer shops in every reasonably small town that
will assemble the computer for you for a relatively small cost - and a
dozen or more "geeks" in every populated area of any consequence that
will do the same.