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 Posted: Wed, 21st Dec 2005 03:54 Post subject: People buy cheap computers. |
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I am getting sick and tired of working on cheap computers. ( emachine, HP and Compaq ).
When will people learn?
Damn hard drives always fail after one year.
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| Posted: Wed, 21st Dec 2005 08:01 Post subject: |
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People will never learn.
We live in an age where most people can afford to have PCs. However, 95% of the households that have them should in fact not even be allowed near one.
My close friend runs a tech support/repair service around town. He visits your average household, but also some pretty high up clients (doctors offices, lawyers offices etc. etc.).
If you could only hear some of the stories he has told..oh my christ. Its the kind of thing that makes you lose faith in humanity.
A bigshot lawyer with his own practice, yet within 5 days of my friend disinfecting/cleaning/firewalling his comp. , he had run it to shit again. Even after my friends lecture of what NOT to do.
Your average household is just as bad.
Computer illiteracy does not discriminate on the basis of income, sex, or age.
JUST CLICK NO - or I willl fucking shoot you.....
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| Posted: Wed, 21st Dec 2005 10:41 Post subject: Re: People buy cheap computers. |
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| YourGod wrote: | | Damn hard drives always fail after one year. |
That has nothing to do with cheap computers, but with cutting production costs and lowering general quality. I've made the experience at work that the quality of hard drives has really gone down. And it's not just the cheap ones, but all of them. We recently ordered a new 15TB Raid system wich came equipped with 400GB Hitachi sata hd's (raid editions). A few weeks later 5 were already broken. Same goes for scsi hd's, not the same quality like they used to be.
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| Posted: Wed, 21st Dec 2005 16:36 Post subject: |
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Yes Dell & HP Pcs really stink - had onboard graphic cards blowing on HP & HDDs failing in Dell (IBM Deskstars). Always found it best to build my own systems - work fine for years (8 years & counting on an old P60).
Compaq Proliant is really the only way to go with PC servers.
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| Posted: Wed, 21st Dec 2005 17:03 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Wed, 21st Dec 2005 17:04 Post subject: |
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Well, they are trying to cram in more and more data on the same area of spinning disk, so it's not at all weird to have this trend. Also, there are several ways a hdd can 'break', I'm assuming that you mean that it starts getting a butload of corrupt data, in which case 1/2 of the HDDs are still salvagable and could serve for a while longer after a few procedures have been preformed on them. Also HDD's motor could break, the needle could dislocate, heat damage to chips... But we are talking about the usual kind of kaput, right? I've just lost a 250 gib baby in a series of small fires. With some 'advanced' software I was able to read some data off it, but it was real slow, so I said - fuck it, i'm getting a new HDD. Maybe this is the price we have to pay for cheap roomy drives? - A yearly cost. 
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manwithplanxyz
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| Posted: Wed, 21st Dec 2005 21:50 Post subject: |
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y was yourgod banned? was it for being a general assfuck and dumbass
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| Posted: Wed, 21st Dec 2005 22:14 Post subject: |
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| manwithplanxyz wrote: | | y was yourgod banned? was it for being a general assfuck and dumbass |
Pretty much..
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manwithplanxyz
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| Posted: Wed, 21st Dec 2005 22:14 Post subject: |
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ok good he deserved it is it a perm
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deelix
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| Posted: Wed, 21st Dec 2005 22:18 Post subject: Re: People buy cheap computers. |
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| YourGod wrote: | I am getting sick and tired of working on cheap computers. ( emachine, HP and Compaq ).
When will people learn?
Damn hard drives always fail after one year. |
wtf, was he banned for this :S ?
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He was banned? Wonder what he said...?
still, no loss
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| Posted: Thu, 22nd Dec 2005 11:53 Post subject: |
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| Immunity wrote: | People will never learn.
We live in an age where most people can afford to have PCs. However, 95% of the households that have them should in fact not even be allowed near one.
My close friend runs a tech support/repair service around town. He visits your average household, but also some pretty high up clients (doctors offices, lawyers offices etc. etc.).
If you could only hear some of the stories he has told..oh my christ. Its the kind of thing that makes you lose faith in humanity.
A bigshot lawyer with his own practice, yet within 5 days of my friend disinfecting/cleaning/firewalling his comp. , he had run it to shit again. Even after my friends lecture of what NOT to do.
Your average household is just as bad.
Computer illiteracy does not discriminate on the basis of income, sex, or age.
JUST CLICK NO - or I willl fucking shoot you..... |
What the hell are you talking about? Didn't it ever cross your mind that not everyone is interested in computers? That some just want to use their computers to send and recieve e-mails, browse the internet or whatever, and therefor don't feel that they need no-more general knowledge in the subject?
The same thing goes for cars and a bunch of other stuff. I'm not the slightest interested in whatever is under my hood or how many horsepowers a car got, but still, when i get my license i want a decent car.
Youre losing faith in humanity because people aren't interested in computers? Maybe you need to get out more...
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| Posted: Thu, 22nd Dec 2005 20:46 Post subject: |
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| towelie_swe wrote: |
What the hell are you talking about? Didn't it ever cross your mind that not everyone is interested in computers? That some just want to use their computers to send and recieve e-mails, browse the internet or whatever, and therefor don't feel that they need no-more general knowledge in the subject?
The same thing goes for cars and a bunch of other stuff. I'm not the slightest interested in whatever is under my hood or how many horsepowers a car got, but still, when i get my license i want a decent car.
Youre losing faith in humanity because people aren't interested in computers? Maybe you need to get out more... |
You may have missed my point man.
I understand that there are some people that could give two shits about their PC.
However, this does NOT give them an excuse to be complete fucking idiots about basic matters.
When you tell them what NOT TO DO, and they turn around and fucking do it anyway...
One of my buddies customers had the audacity of accusing him of installing a dialer on his PC, resulting in a monthly phone bill of $5,000USD. Of course, the dialer was cause the stupid fuck was browsing free porn, even after he was warned against it.
Don't think you can understand where I am coming from until you've seen it yourself firsthand 
Trust me, you don't wanna experience it heh.
I can never be free, because the shackles I wear can't be touched or be seen.
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| Posted: Thu, 22nd Dec 2005 21:00 Post subject: |
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I have experienced it first hand. it is to me all my freinds come to whenever they have a problem with their com.
But you should realise that it is very probable that the guys that he talked to didn't know what the hell was being said so they just nodded their heads to not look like a retard
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| Posted: Fri, 23rd Dec 2005 00:22 Post subject: |
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I hate opposite (is that well spelled?)
I hate fuckin rich people having omgcomputers and having less performance than mine only coz they have tons of adware installed!!
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Hamigo
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| Posted: Fri, 23rd Dec 2005 01:42 Post subject: |
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I always rather format the HD, then work on the PC. And especially if kids are users.
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Dec 2005 10:53 Post subject: |
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Why wouldn't someone who's buying their first computer buy a dell or hp or whatever? they see them in ads and stuff and think that they ought to be the best. remember, they are NEW to the buisness, they don't even know what a video card is!
I bet that 75 % of the people who today have a non-company-made computer started with a company-made!
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honestly, i think dells are not THAT bad, all depends what you use your computer for. for gaming, sure it sucks. but my mother in law bought a dell last year, and all she does on that is browsing through the net and play some hoyle casino thats it, and for that a dell is just fine. and about 90% of the hardcore gamers build their own systems anyway, so there is no reason to talk down on dell or hp, they just offer cheap computers to the beginners...
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| Posted: Fri, 30th Dec 2005 22:35 Post subject: Re: People buy cheap computers. |
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| YourGod wrote: | I am getting sick and tired of working on cheap computers. ( emachine, HP and Compaq ).
When will people learn?
Damn hard drives always fail after one year. |
what do you work with?
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| Posted: Sat, 31st Dec 2005 03:43 Post subject: |
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| towelie_swe wrote: | Why wouldn't someone who's buying their first computer buy a dell or hp or whatever? they see them in ads and stuff and think that they ought to be the best. remember, they are NEW to the buisness, they don't even know what a video card is!
I bet that 75 % of the people who today have a non-company-made computer started with a company-made! |
I guess I'm one of the remaining 25% then...My first PC was a 386 whcih someone built for me...Never owned a 'Company Built' machine.....
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