Re: Levono to Offer Choice: AMD or Intel

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 02:39:14 +0000, nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 14:05:43 -0500, Keith <krw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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I generally pay for deliver, even though I have a pickup (though I picked
up the dish washer from Sears). For $35ish the local stores will deliver
the new unit, put it in place, and cart packing materials and the old
$49.99+tx delivery and another 49.99+tx installation. Isn't it too
much for a $199 appliance? And the town collected the old one.

Crap! I've never bought a $199 appliance. Ok, the coffee maker was less
than that. ;-) Lessee; refrigerator, stove, dishwasher, and microwave in
five years (house's 15-year-itch) total about $4K. Installation? Crap!
They don't install anything. They put it it place. Even with the
dishwasher they wouldn't even connect the water for over $100, so I did it
all myself. OTOH the refrigerator was a PITA to move around (even though
I had to do the water thing there too).

appliance away. There are a few local stores around that are very good,
so I deal with them, mostly. They usually get a delivery every Thursday
from Boston, so if I order it by Monday it's here the same week (the
refrigerator was a close call).

Our microwave was $650. ;-) It had to fit in the hole in the copper
range hood over the island and have an exhaust fan upward. SWMBO wanted
a convection oven too (useless).

GE in basic black for $199. If you really cook on the range over which
it is mounted, anything else, especially stainless, gets that dirty,
greasy look in no time. Black is more forgiving.

Who said sainless? It's all black, except the refrigerator (almond
matte). Stainless sucks pond scum (and looks it). The range is a
glass-top though. It's not easy to keep spotless, but it's easy to cook
on.

And one more thing - I wanted it to be the exact replacement of the
old one that got its door accidentally smashed. Old folks come to us
daily to babysit, and it
would be a pain to teach them the new button location and
functionality(got this wish - GE didn't change the controls in 6 years).

Grin. No problems with sitters here (the brat is 27 and long gone).
Maybe for us soon...

Also hoped to re-use old mounting bracket and holes in the cabinet
above (no luck - they changed the mounting so I had to drill new holes
in the wall for the bracket and in the cabinet, too). If not for that,
I could've picked a Magic Chef for $130 (model year end sale or
something like that) - same functionality, same wattage, just different
control configuration.


Yeah, I had to change the whole superstructure above the island. What a
PITA and crinkled the custom copper hood in the process. :-(

$650 for a microwave is beyond my comprehension. Is it gold-plated, or
encrusted with diamonds? I woud've rather picked a couple of opty250 for
that kind of money.

Nope, just a Sharp convection microwave. Opterons weren't around five
years ago. Besides P-4s would do a better job today! ;-) No, the
microwave had to fit in the custom hood that has more copper in it than
Wisconsin.

The store is organized in such a way that if you are going to
appliance section, you have to walk by either home theater section
or computers.

Aren't all the stores clones? ;-)

They have to fit the store into existing mall config.

Hmm, all the BBYs I've seen have the building built around the store.

Our area is so densely developed that they had to get whatever space was
available for rent. But since it is in the center of the mall, they get
good traffic.

Never seen such a place. Good thing; I don't like *dense*, even if it's
only one person. ;-)

--
Keith

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