Fun Thing To Do (Score 1)

The last time I got a Dell catalog in the mail, I noticed that there was a section for customizing your own computer. It started with a base computer with a PIII (I think) and some flavor of Windows. So I called the sales department at Dell and had some fun. Since the sales lit said that I could get any computer I wanted, I figured I could get an AMD processor instead. The sales guy sputtered something off about Dell doing research and finding that AMD processors don't last as long as Pentiums.

So I guess the computer isn't exactly what I wanted, but maybe I could get a free network card in exchange for keeping Windows. When I suggested this, the sales guy first thought that I was crazy and then said, but Windows comes with the computer for free. I pointed out to him that M$ wasn't going to _give away_ Windows, so it had to cost something. In the end the sales guy decided that I couldn't trade Windows for anything (guess it is worthless).

The moral of the story is that Dell shouldn't send me anymore catalogs since I will never buy from them anyways and I find that being annoying alliviates boredom.

BTW, I won't buy from Dell 'cause their tech support people always yell at me when I call 'cause I put Linux on their pretty little laptop.