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Holy Shit!
Monday June 05 2006, @07:14AM
They actually redesigned this place?
Bush's deep thoughts at the UN Summit
Wednesday September 14 2005, @09:18PM
Dell is unbelivable
Saturday August 27 2005, @09:27PM
Little sister goes off to college in a couple weeks, so I was asked to config her a laptop.
Now, before I switched to my Mac mini, I'd had two Dells, and I was quite happy with them. Cheap, did the job, etc.
Now, sure, the site says you can get a laptop for $800. Okay.
You then go through three pages of options, with all sorts of spammy "hey want AOL?" "hey want a colored anal plug?" etc. type prompts. Three huge, long pages of configuations.
Not only that, but the $800 price is for irresponsibly poor config options. 128mb RAM for Windows XP? No thanks, mofos.
By the time I'd config-ed it for her, it was $1600 - and no tax or shipping yet. Yeah. Nope, she'll use Dad's spare instead.
Buying an Apple laptop?
Memory
Hard drive
Extra display
Extra keyboard/mouse
Applecare
Done! And for approximately the price they quote you on the store pages, not twice as much.
Now, before I switched to my Mac mini, I'd had two Dells, and I was quite happy with them. Cheap, did the job, etc.
Now, sure, the site says you can get a laptop for $800. Okay.
You then go through three pages of options, with all sorts of spammy "hey want AOL?" "hey want a colored anal plug?" etc. type prompts. Three huge, long pages of configuations.
Not only that, but the $800 price is for irresponsibly poor config options. 128mb RAM for Windows XP? No thanks, mofos.
By the time I'd config-ed it for her, it was $1600 - and no tax or shipping yet. Yeah. Nope, she'll use Dad's spare instead.
Buying an Apple laptop?
Memory
Hard drive
Extra display
Extra keyboard/mouse
Applecare
Done! And for approximately the price they quote you on the store pages, not twice as much.
