{"id":76816,"date":"2013-05-02T12:06:27","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T10:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=76816"},"modified":"2013-05-02T12:07:16","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T10:07:16","slug":"what-is-a-barebone-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/76816-what-is-a-barebone-pc.html","title":{"rendered":"What is a barebone PC?"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Advertising Standards Authority of South Africa (ASA<\/a>) complaint against a Matrix Warehouse<\/a> advertisement, promoting a \u201cBarebone PC\u201d, raised the question as to what a barebone PC really is.<\/p>\n

Matrix Warehouse advertised a Barebone PC special, which contained an image of a PC box. This product did not contain Hard Disk Drives or CD\/DVD Writers.<\/p>\n

Martin Nyirenda, an IT Engineer, lodged a complaint with the ASA, arguing that a \u2018barebone PC\u2019 is a system without optional extras, such as a Sound Card, Graphics Card or Ethernet Cards.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor a product to be called a PC it would require at least a Motherboard, Memory (RAM) and Processor (CPU) and a Hard Drive,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Matrix Warehouse responded, saying that its barebone PC advertisement did not give any indication that these PCs come with a Hard Drive.<\/p>\n

They argued that many websites describe a \u201cbarebone PC\u201d as generally consisting only of a case, power supply and a motherboard.<\/p>\n

The ASA called on the Computer Society of South Africa (CSSA) for help, and the organisation said that a barebone PC (computer) is regarded as containing a Motherboard and Power Supply.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome manufacturers will have the inclusion of a Hard Disk Drive (HDD) as a component of a Barebones PC, but many do not,\u201d the CSSA said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe general consensus … is that a Barebones PC is to be assembled by the user and consists of a minimum of a computer case, a motherboard and a power supply, with all other components being additional\u201d.<\/p>\n

The ASA said that it was happy that a hypothetical reasonable person would not be mislead into expecting more than what Matrix Warehouse was offering in its barebone PC special.<\/p>\n

The ASA subsequently dismissed the complaint.<\/p>\n

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