Bad PC Sales Staff Exposed

Barence writes "An undercover investigation has revealed how Dell's online sales staff take liberties with the truth when trying to sell customers new PCs. One member of staff told an undercover reporter that he would need a PC with a good graphics card to download digital photos. Another, who was more incompetent than devious, was asked how many photos could be stored on a 250GB hard disk. 'Its[sic] on average 2 MB then 1024 MB * 2,' came the bewildering reply. Meanwhile, a sales assistant at supermarket Tesco told the reporter that netbooks got their name because 'a Japanese man on a plane fell asleep with a laptop on his thighs and was horribly burned, so the industry has dropped the name laptop.'"

Comments

This graphic card stuff is more widespread

[Anonymous Coward]

This graphic card stuff reminds me on my typical conversations with ./ geeks...

something along the following lines:

troll: what graphic card does your notebook have?
me: something onboard - i don't care about this stuff
troll: that's bad, a graphic card is way faster than this onboard stuff, you should buy a notebook with a REAL graphic card
me: i don't care - it does not make a difference - i don't even use opengl but just xmonad, firefox, and a few xterms
troll: doesn't matter - without a REAL graphic card all graphic stuff will waste some of your precious RAM
me: I DON'T CARE if a few megs out of my 4GB of RAM are wasted
troll: but you know... the generic RAM is slower than the memory of a REAL graphic card, so you're graphic performance suffers
me: ...