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What's the point of buying partially assembled or "barebone" computers ? The answer may sound obvious (modularity), but I think it also relies on a personal level of choices. What are yours and why ?
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>>55745378
Back before ITX motherboards that fit regular desktop CPUs became common, barebones machines were the only way to get a full power machine that small.
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>>55745431
Because ITX motherboards now contain all kind of parts that weren't there in the sold-in-kit computers era ?
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>>55745492
Yep. Until ~2008 when LGA775 ITX boards started arriving, they were mostly aimed at low power media/web browsing machines, with mobile CPUs from Via or later Intel's Atom range, with integrated graphics, no PCIe slot (or AGP back when that existed).
At the same time, Shuttle were making barebones machines that could support a full Athlon XP/64, Pentium 4 etc, with space for a video card, half decent power supply and cooling, if you wanted you could turn one into a pretty neat gaming machine. Cost quite a lot though. See what they had in ~2004 http://www.shuttle.eu/_archive/older/en/xpc.htm
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