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Originally Posted by ThEGr33k
Yea i dont plan on getting into that trap! I just build my own and the one for the imediate family.
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That's the very people I'm talking about ... family ... who think they can get away with phoning you up at the drop of a hat and telling you that they've just pushed their XD card into the SD slot, and it appears to now be rattling around inside the computer
This is just the start LMAO
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Originally Posted by ThEGr33k
I also dont rate pre builds because of the hardware they use. A typical pre built that compainies like Dell sell are usually kitted out with good numbers, by that i mean good CPU with a nice amount of RAM and HDD space, but then to keep cost down they put in a £20 special Graphics card (arguably the most important part of a computer) and Motherboard. These are really two items you shouldnt skimp on unless all you want to do with the computer is go on the internet...
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Yup ... you got that right LOL but I'm willing to buy a pre-built and upgrade it myself when I see fit
I remember some twit in PC World trying to sell my friend a PC with a DVD drive in it when she specifically said "I don't need one, I have a DVD player for that", the argument was fun, but pointless, and its always a laugh seeing the faces of the staff in PC World flumoxed by a simple argument
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Originally Posted by ThEGr33k
Best thing i know of recently is companies selling Vista on compters with 1GB RAM or less, it takes more than 1 GB of RAM to run Vista properly, never mind programs.  . Madness. |
This isn't just a recent phenomenon ... jeeez this one has been raging for years
I remember companies flogging PC's with XP on and 256MB RAM
Software is always pushing hardware requirements ... its the way of the world (of IT). I remember buying "Need For Speed" for the PC thinking, 'This is gonna be fantastic driving around in cars that look and sound like the real things
and it's gonna look great on my Pentium 120Mhz BEAST' ... what I failed to notice was the memory requirements which my PC fell well short of, and so my brand new game ran in a window the size of a postage stamp, at a resolution more akin to early 1970's home video console game systems, and at about 2 frames per second
not quite "Need for
Speed" and more like "Need to READ (the system requirements!)" LMAO