Johnny said:
The point I always state is that you can build your own for a 1/3 of the price you will spend for an alienware. Most cases, you can probably get a better system also. People seem to feel that if a system cost $5,000.00 it has to be the best. Well folks, come to reality, it's not. I paid $600.00 for my dell. It is flawless. Not a thing wrong with it. This is my 5th PC, I know a lot more than an average AOL user, ( People who are usually the ones who spend that kind of money on their first pc. Mostly so they can say "hey, look what I got". While they are chatting with their online friends while listening to Michael Bolton and playing solitair. But in reality have no idea how to turn it on !!) And I will never spend $5,000.00 on a pc ..
Well i hope you would know more, you are on osnn. But this machine is a desktop replacement. My current box which is a nice box can't be carried anywhere. When i am gone 18hours a day and in between classes or at lunch at work i want to be able to enjoy it and frag a few people and what not and enjoy it, why i went for the nice on this one. I agree thought i would never spend this much but since i know its something i am going to be taking care of like a baby for a while i might as well go for the good one.
Johnny said:
Prime example: I have a relative who can tell you everything that is in his system as far as hardware. He will literally sit there and tell you you have to have what he has, some schmuck at best buy told him what he thinks is the best and such, so now my relative thinks the same thing. Anyway, I spent five hours trying to explain to him how to use winzip and change his themes. Yes folks you heard it. He had no idea how to use winzip or what a desktop was.
well for this one, your relative is a dip**** who needs a brain because the average "newb" doesn't need a nice system to start. But my point is stated before about my reasoning.
Johnny said:
That is what I am talking about. People want something to brag about. Sure they have a nice system, but I'll bet even odds they don't know how to turn it on. Or, if they did figure that out, they never rebooted it because they forgot how. These people are also the the ones who are constantly calling techs like me and spending $40.00 or $50.00 for five minutes of work to clear out all the junk they amassed while browsing the net and rebooting it for them because they never learned how !!
I don't talk to anyone to brag about it. My life consist of lady moo, work, school and bowling. Trust me the bowling guys know dick about computers. I am the tech they call btw so i know the deal with those people and trust me, none of them spent a lot of money on a computer. (esp the old ones they think over $60 is a lot)
Johnny said:
Here is another one for ya. I got called from a guy who said his pc was running slow an dwhen he would reboot it a bsod would come up. I ask him the noraml questions like; did you clean out the temp files and such. He said what are they. I said never mind and went to his house. I got in his system, download crap cleaner and ran it. He had over seven gig of garbage on his pc. I couldn't believe it, seven gig !! I went threw and cleaned it all out. I also cleaned out his registry and such. As well as disabling some things that didn't need to start at start up, he still had things he tried to uninstall running at start up. After doing all that his pc start up really fast. He looked at me and said that is the fastest he has ever seen it start up. I looked at him and just laughed.
Anyone see my points ??
umm no.. because they are all really lame stories to behonest. I am not one of those guys who can't turn on a computer or who can't run hijack this. Everyone of us have stories like that if not better. We should open a thread for that if there isn't one.
Damn 28days.. you guys need some fedex or ups that is crazy. I guess its just lazy on both sides, the shippers and the shipping companies, all that tea time makes you lazy
(is tea time actually real or just a misconseption from the US people?)
as for specs,
Intel® Pentium® 4 540J Desktop Processor w/ HT Technology 3.2GHz 800MHz FSB 1MB Cache
1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SO-DIMM at 533MHz - 2 x 512MB
Area-51m 7700 Case with 17" WideSXGA+ 1680 x 1050 LCD Display with Built-in Camera - Xeno Grey
160GB (80GB x 2) 5400 RPM ATA100 (i didn't think sata was needed for a notebook)
8X Dual Layer DVD+/-RW / 24X CD-RW Combo w/Software
Internal Wireless 802.11b/g miniPCI Card
Alienware® Premium Backpack XL(can't find another bookbag that does 17inch :[ )
and a razorback mouse.
lady moo is going to feel neglected when WOW is going to be played on the bed and she is going to be only watching. Which is why i got notebook from ferral_imp, so she can do online things and what not and not bother me
thanks btw, i am going to be singing the facts of life theme all day today.