I always use second hand stuff (With the exception of hard disks) ... Basically I just replace a part when it's broke or if I can get a better part free or cheap (Like graphics, or CPU).
Yeah, I'm a cheap ass ... But this actually works rather well, since I don't need a quad core CPU, 8GB RAM, and who knows what else to run vim and mutt...
Another advantage is that I've rarely had any hardware problems with BSD ... Since all the hardware has been around for a while...
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