{"id":53558,"date":"2013-05-11T13:13:44","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T11:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=53558"},"modified":"2013-05-11T13:17:56","modified_gmt":"2013-05-11T11:17:56","slug":"what-is-a-barebone-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/53558-what-is-a-barebone-pc","title":{"rendered":"What is a barebone PC?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Advertising Standards Authority of South Africa (<a title=\"ASA\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/306365-ASA-Advertising-Standards-Authority\">ASA<\/a>) complaint against a <a title=\"Matrix Warehouse\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/526504-Matrix-Warehouse\">Matrix Warehouse<\/a> advertisement, promoting a \u201cBarebone PC\u201d, raised the question as to what a barebone PC really is.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>\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<p>Matrix Warehouse responded, saying that its barebone PC advertisement did not give any indication that these PCs come with a Hard Drive.<\/p>\n<p>They argued that many websites describe a \u201cbarebone PC\u201d as generally consisting only of a case, power supply and a motherboard.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>\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<p>\u201cThe general consensus &#8230; 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<p>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<p>The ASA subsequently dismissed the complaint.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More PC news:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/53367-how-much-for-the-ultimate-gaming-rig.html\">How much for the ultimate gaming rig?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/52466-top-5-recommended-amd-gpus.html\">Top 5 recommended AMD GPUs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/53500-intels-new-leaders-are-good-news-for-pc-enthusiasts.html\">Intel\u2019s new leaders are good news for PC enthusiasts<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/53363-amd-radeon-hd7990-sa-price-point-revealed.html\">AMD Radeon HD7990 SA price point revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matrix Warehouse advertising complaint raises the question as to what a barebone PC really is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":50063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9865,21,9866],"class_list":["post-53558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-asa","tag-headline","tag-matrix-warehouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53809,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53558\/revisions\/53809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}