Style or substance

[Rave]

Computers are a bit of a special case- you can pay over the odds for a Viao, or Voodoo/Alienware etc. but even in the 'normal' scheme of things if you want the latest and most powerful you have to pay for it. You can cheap out like I did and overclock/softmod etc. the hell out of cheapo stuff but if I wanted to play the latest and greatest games at high res I'd have no real choice but to cough up for an A64 and a £200+ graphics card. As it is my main/gaming rig is a Tbred at 2.2GHz with a softmodded 9500 which has lasted me well over a year in its current spec, and I also have a Dual Athlon XP2000 backup/crunching machine which cost me about £150 all in using leftover/secondhand parts. I'd rather have 5.5GHz of FAD crunching power under my desk than one very slightly whizzier single rig.

Everything else in life (cars are the best example) doesn't update at such a breakneck pace, but does depreciate enormously. The answer is to buy secondhand. If I had (say) £6000 to spend on a car I wouldn't have a new Citroen C2 or a Kia Picanto, I'd spend £3000 on a ten year old BMW 740iL, save the rest to cover the higher running costs, and enjoy cruising around in something absolutely superb.

[Stewart]

I'm typing this on a Sony Vaio now, and to be honest, whilst its a fine piece of kit, I'd not have paid any more than I thought it was worth, beyond the specs, etc. The novelty soons wears off, and its what it can do, not what it looks like that really counts.

And I'm only on it because Sarge knocked a cup of tea over, that I'd left on my monitor, breaking it, so my main PC is out of action for a bit.

It is nice though...

[Wyoming]

Hardly, the chassis is the same, but the suspension setup etc is completly different. And if anyones talking about stylish jags i dont think theyre gonna e thinking of the x-type

I concur entirely with that. When I think of Jaguar, the first model to come to mind is the XKR in Jaguar Racing Green.

I agree with Rave that computers are also an exception to the rule when it comes to style/substance.

[herulach]

I concur entirely with that. When I think of Jaguar, the first model to come to mind is the XKR in Jaguar Racing Green.

I agree with Rave that computers are also an exception to the rule when it comes to style/substance.

Order of jaguar coolness
XJ 220
E type
Whatever the big 60s ones are called
XKR
XJ sport

[Nox]

I could never class an xj220 as a cool car, oh yes, i'd love one, but its got a metro engine in it...

no way is that cooler than an E Type

Nox

[herulach]

I could never class an xj220 as a cool car, oh yes, i'd love one, but its got a metro engine in it...

no way is that cooler than an E Type

Nox

Sorry when exactly did they put a 550 hp twin turbo v6 in a metro? I mean if they did great, i want one, i suppose it might have been the 6r4, but i didnt think that was quite so insane

[Rave]

Sorry when exactly did they put a 550 hp twin turbo v6 in a metro? I mean if they did great, i want one, i suppose it might have been the 6r4, but i didnt think that was quite so insane

Yes it's the 6R4 engine, although it wasn't turbocharged in the 6R4 AFAIK.

However, as far as I'm concerned the 6R4 is pretty much the definition of insanity.