Computer buying project

In the computer buying project I found that buying every part individually can become expensive. I think that the only reason we would need to look at the individual pieces like this is to build a custom computer. Most computers have optical disk drive and the hard drive and RAM is in the computer when you buy it. When I bought my computer it was $500 and I didn’t have to buy a sound card, video card, or optical disk drive. The only other reason that you would care about all of these different parts is if you were going to customize your computer to do a certain job. If you are just buying a computer that you want to take to college to write papers then just buy a standard laptop or desktop and that should be about it… I chose to go with PC because I have been using PC all my life and Mac is harder to understand and I have used it before and I just don’t like the whole setup and feel of it.