PC manufacturers
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Customer service - what a concept!
Christopher Duncan Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Coming soon: Got a career question? Ask the Attack Chihuahua! www.PracticalUSA.com
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That's my current thinking these days - a box is just a cheap wrapper for a hard drive.
Christopher Duncan Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Coming soon: Got a career question? Ask the Attack Chihuahua! www.PracticalUSA.com
Unless it is Apple. There are +100 man points for buying a Mac. ;)
You have, what I would term, a very formal turn of phrase not seen in these isles since the old King passed from this world to the next. martin_hughes on VDK
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Unless it is Apple. There are +100 man points for buying a Mac. ;)
You have, what I would term, a very formal turn of phrase not seen in these isles since the old King passed from this world to the next. martin_hughes on VDK
I thought you got Fluffy Bunny Points for Mac stuff. :-D (ducks and quickly leaves the room due to mortal fear of psycho bunnies...)
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Regrettably, no. It involved a sharp, bladed instrument, some very tall weeds, and an idiot who thought that half an hour bending over and whacking them off at ground level would have no consequences. :rolleyes:
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My dad bought a gateway computer years ago, it was sweet. It had a 40 Gig hard drive, 800Mhz processor, two, thats right TWO cd burners, and the most uber flatscreen big resolution monitor ever. It even had a zip drive, talk about cutting edge! It lasted until a couple of years ago when the motherboard died, it was a sad day. But the monitor is just as big and uber as ever.
My current favourite word is: Bacon!
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SK Genius wrote:
My dad bought a gateway computer years ago
SK Genius wrote:
It lasted until a couple of years ago
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It even had a zip drive, talk about cutting edge!
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Sadly, it's another vote for Dell from me. We have 3 Dell machines in this house, and all are working fine. (Well, the oldest one is running out of life, but it should last a little longer yet) You get some pretty decent deals too. Although i did notice they always use some strange unknown versions of everything. For example my PC came with an nVidia 7300LE card, with 512MB of memory. Where the hell did they get that? I've only ever seen those with 256MB maximum.
My current favourite word is: Bacon!
-SK Genius
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For example my PC came with an nVidia 7300LE card, with 512MB of memory. Where the hell did they get that? I've only ever seen those with 256MB maximum.
They're occasionally seen in retail. They're distributed by Inflate A Useless Spec to Fool N00bs Ltd. Like every other Take a Stock Card and Add Extra Ram model the only performance 'gain' they provide over stock is increased power consumption. :rolleyes:
You know, every time I tried to win a bar-bet about being able to count to 1000 using my fingers I always got punched out when I reached 4.... -- El Corazon
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Never buy a Gateway...ever.:mad: Only some here will understand that one.
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I bought a Gateway back in 1997 and it was a wonderful experience. Great service, great product and then Dell came and started squeezing the bottom line. Technically I still have lifetime support on the box if I can find it :P
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First (PC) machine: Sperry XT Second-current machines: home-built. No troubles with any of them.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001First machine Wang 286, second an Olivetti with 5mb disk. I have used white boxes recently but cannot get a QUIET machine, the office Lenovo is quicker and quieter than my beast at home. I will probably go back to Dell for the next one - at least they are quiet.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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The problems with Dell only occur when you (eventually) get a human on the other end of the line. Older stories revolve around interaction with less than competent outsourced tech support. More recently, bought a Vostro (larger case) for the purpose of having something expandable, i.e. additional drives, etc. Talked to a rep to get recommendations on the best box for my needs and was assured this was the ticket. Last month another box crashed, I pulled the hard drive to pop it in the Vostro, and there was indeed a spare slot for the drive. But only 2 power cables from the power supply, one for the DVD and one for the existing hard drive. Additionally, their drive bays are also non standard with some sort of sliding mechanism - the brackets to which weren't included. Can't mount, no power if I could. Yep. Truly expandable. Fast forward to conversations today. Looking for another standard, expandable box, wanted to talk to a rep so that I didn't repeat my previous mistake. For the sake of comparison, told him the previous box was a Vostro 200 and asked questions about other boxes that might avoid this problem. He asked questions about the box several times, and I finally asked if he couldn't just pull it up on his browser so that he'd see what I was talking about. He snorted (yes, actually snorted and mumbled something on his way out) and hung up on me. Any reaction I might relay would simply be belaboring the obvious.
Christopher Duncan Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Coming soon: Got a career question? Ask the Attack Chihuahua! www.PracticalUSA.com
Christopher Duncan wrote:
The problems with Dell only occur when you (eventually) get a human on the other end of the line
I had the opposite result... my problems stopped when I finally got onto a human. Once you get a good support person, make sure you get their direct line and email
"There are three sides to every story. Yours, mine and the truth" ~ unknown "All things good to know are difficult to learn" ~ Greek Proverb "The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary" ~ Vidal Sassoon
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First machine Wang 286, second an Olivetti with 5mb disk. I have used white boxes recently but cannot get a QUIET machine, the office Lenovo is quicker and quieter than my beast at home. I will probably go back to Dell for the next one - at least they are quiet.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
My first PC was a 286 (20 MB HDD :omg:)... Still goes strong today, and plays price of persia like a pro.... in fact I can start it up and play a bit of prince of persia before vista *shudder* even gets to the login screen
"There are three sides to every story. Yours, mine and the truth" ~ unknown "All things good to know are difficult to learn" ~ Greek Proverb "The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary" ~ Vidal Sassoon