Re: OT::No attachments from me

On Sun, 18 May 2008 12:25:28 -0400, "cybercat" <cyberpurrs@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


"blake murphy" <blakepmNOTTHIS@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote


so what's the alternative, if you want to buy a new machine from, say,
circuit city or the equivalent?

But why would you want to buy a computer from Circuit City?


convenience, mostly.

Are you like me, don't want a Dell but don't know why? They give
you a choice of OS, and you could get everything I just bought for
$500. (That's with no monitor.)


yes. and i'm not sure why, because i know a very sharp guy who works
for dell. i think they were having problems some years ago and the
idea stuck that they make bum machines.

spend another hundred or so bucks for
a copy of xp? i'm not sure i'm ready to deal with unix, and i'm not
sure a mac is wonderful enough for the money. (i'm sorta in the
market, but unlike some others leaning toward h.p., who made the
getting-creaky machine i'm on now.)


You can do worse than HP. Mine was poorly thought out with regard to
software and hardware conflicts, but for its time powerful and the price was
right.
And, after all, it is still running. Among the tackier things about HP is
that after a
certain period of time, you have to pay to *talk* to their tech guys about a
machine
you *bought* from them. I never paid. I am the "fuck you, I will learn to
fix it myself
or shitcan this thing" type."


i can recall only having to deal with them once or twice.

my machine is five or six years old. when i was looking at new ones,
i was kind of upset there was only one c.d. reader/writer, and my
dinosaur has two. (well, one of them quit on me, but still.) i used
to like that to just dupe a c.d. without having to write it to the
hard disk and then back out. the salesman said, 'well there is a bay
for another one' and i said 'that you have to buy.' well, yes. (in
fairness, the machines cost a quarter of what i paid.)

the box has been behaving itself of late, though. maybe it knows i'm
thinking of shoving it out the window.

your pal,
blake
.

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