Heh, 13yo Mac user's first foray into the PC DIY scene.

[Martin]

Link


I couldn't stop thinking: whatta n00b.


But he'll learn with time....

 

[fatbaby]

spoiled 13 year olds that can afford a better case than i have =(

EDIT: Genius at work!

 

[LordThing]

Rather well built site...but i am curious why it even exists. Like we even friggin care one Iota about him or his experiences.

 

[Danman]

<< spoiled 13 year olds that can afford a better case than i have =(

EDIT: Genius at work! >>



Yea, that's what I'm saying! What a b!tch!

 

[MacBaine]

Looks like mommy and daddy didn't pay him enough attention, so he fell pray to the dark side.

 

[tweakmm]

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<< spoiled 13 year olds that can afford a better case than i have =(

EDIT: Genius at work! >>



Yea, that's what I'm saying! What a b!tch! >>

 

[glenn1]

He can afford a iMac Lickable Fruitbox? but balks at the cost of an Intel cpu and board? How odd...

 

[Epsil0n00]

<< referring to my father with questions, I started to make a detailed list of things I thought I needed. >>


BWAHAHAHAHA! I can see it now...

"Hey Dad, what is a computer again? When are you going to install my internet?"

Ha! He did all that himself my ass! Hey, if his dad did it and the kid sat at his side, fine. But I don't believe for a second that that 13yo did all that, and hosted his own custom designed website too. right... If so, then cool, but I sorta doubt it.

 

[kami]

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<< referring to my father with questions, I started to make a detailed list of things I thought I needed. >>


BWAHAHAHAHA! I can see it now...

"Hey Dad, what is a computer again? When are you going to install my internet?"

Ha! He did all that himself my ass! Hey, if his dad did it and the kid sat at his side, fine. But I don't believe for a second that that 13yo did all that, and hosted his own custom designed website too. right... If so, then cool, but I sorta doubt it. >>


huh?
i'm not defending this ridiculous and laughable site but what is this BS? why couldn't a 13 year old build a PC? i knew how to put one together at that age...i also started making websites then (albeit sh!tty ones) since at that age i first got on the net. oh wait, i just remembered... my dad did it all for me. i sat on the sidelines.

just because you can't do it, doesn't mean a little kid can't.

 

[TallBill]

im pretty damn confident that if i had the money to afford parts and teh information resources that i have now, i'd be able to build a pc when i was 13 or younger

 

[Martin]

<< Looks like mommy and daddy didn't pay him enough attention, so he fell pray to the dark side. >>




Macs lead to boredom, boredom leads to curiosity, curiosity leads to building your own PC, building you own pc, leads to the dark side

 

[Kadarin]

Not to put the guy down or anything, since I only read the first few paragraphs on the site, but it'll be nice when he finally takes a writing class in high school and learns how to put complex sentences together. Reading short, choppy sentences one after the other gets to be a bit painful after a brief while.

 

[Martin]

<< Not to put the guy down or anything, since I only read the first few paragraphs on the site, but it'll be nice when he finally takes a writing class in high school and learns how to put complex sentences together. Reading short, choppy sentences one after the other gets to be a bit painful after a brief while. >>




lol, true.

He aint the next anand, that's for sure.

 

[Epsil0n00]

maybe I was a bit too harsh on the little guy... however, either way, my point is that building your own PC at 13 is a bit abnormal and I am wondering just how much help he had?

Yeah for him!

 

[MrBond]

<< maybe I was a bit too harsh on the little guy... however, either way, my point is that building your own PC at 13 is a bit abnormal and I am wondering just how much help he had? >>

It might be abnormal for some people, but I think the average tech savvy kid would jump at the chance to build his own pc. I built my first one when I was 13, it was a webserver for the ISP I was working at around that time.

 

[Jfrag Teh Foul]

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<< Looks like mommy and daddy didn't pay him enough attention, so he fell pray to the dark side. >>




Macs lead to boredom, boredom leads to curiosity, curiosity leads to building your own PC, building you own pc, leads to the dark side


>>



BHAHHAHAHHAAHA!

 

[Jzero]

<< Not to put the guy down or anything, since I only read the first few paragraphs on the site, but it'll be nice when he finally takes a writing class in high school and learns how to put complex sentences together. Reading short, choppy sentences one after the other gets to be a bit painful after a brief while. >>


Hahaha
I was actually more thankful that it wasn't written as follows:
"HI MY NAME IZ KENT AND IM A K3WL MAC USAR, BUT ALL MY FRENDZ ARE 3L337 (THATS ELEET FOR ALL j00 n00bs) AND SEZ IM TEH GHEY FOR USIN MACZ BUT MY DADDY SAYS MACZ ARE THE BEST BUT I WANT TO BE L33T SO IM GOING TO BUILD A PC THAT 0WNZ ALL OF U WHEN I PLAY MINESWEEPER..."

To the others, I see no reason why a 13-yo couldn't figure out how to put a computer together. If you can READ you can figure it out.
I have no idea where he got the money...he probably sells his "vitamin 'R' " on the playground hehe

 

[Czar]

I guess mac users must learn somehow.. but this is definetly not what they need




<< Problem No. 2. I could not get Windows XP to installed on one of the new hard drives. Windows XP install dialog says I need to format my hard drives to install Windows XP on, DUH!!! I thought Windows would figure that out by itself but guess not.
Solution: In the BIOS set-up I had to make the cd-rom drive the first boot drive which allowed me to first initialize and format the hard drives and then install Windows XP. >>


what a mac newbie he is

 

[Czar]

<< There are tons of games available for the PC and more often than not the games that are released for the Mac often come out on the PC months before the Mac version is available. >>


omg:Q realy !

 

[Jimbo]

<< << maybe I was a bit too harsh on the little guy... however, either way, my point is that building your own PC at 13 is a bit abnormal and I am wondering just how much help he had? >> >>


Not really. I MAKE my kids build their own. My daughter built her first when she was 9 years old and my son built his first at age 7. I printed out an online guide and let them use that for directions. I was right there with them but the only thing I actually touched was the memory module because my son was not strong enough to force it in all the way, and my daughter thought she was going to break something. I did not stand there and say this goes there and that goes here. When asked questions, I ask them questions back so they had to think and not just be told what to do.

 

[GermyBoy]

<< my son was not strong enough to force it in all the way, and my daughter thought she was going to break something >>



That's pretty funny, as not a lot of pressure it required. At my work, the information department always bends parts of comptuers when they "Fix" them. It's humorous.

Anyways, where did this kid get his funding? Man, I want to build a computer like his. Too bad I'm so poor.

 

[LaBang]

Good for him. I don't see why you guys are bashing him though. You all like windows, he built a computer to try windows. What is wrong with that? He seemed to take a good look at what he was doing and probably learned a lot from it.


Good thing he realized that the Mac OS is better. Because it is.

 

[im2smrt4u]

Well, I was building PCs when I was 13, I just had a FAR lower budget! :Q

 

[Haircut]

<< I found a website that had a user forum on which a lot of people who call themselves PC Enthusiasts who were all recommending a website called Newegg.com. >>


Think he stumbled across AnandTech then?

 

[Russ]

Actually, this kid seems a lot wiser and more mature then most of the fanboys that hang around this BBS:



<< I posted some questions on internet usergroups and many people started to get down right ugly defending their CPU of choice. I mean both CPU's run the same operating system and basically do the same thing, right? Now that I think about it, it was kind of funny. Grown men and some women too, threatening each other over a little piece of plastic, glass and metal. >>



Russ, NCNE