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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.'"
What boggles me is people like you just ACCEPT this... like it is ok. It isn't ok. It's fraud. Nothing can or will be done until you stop bending over and taking the whole broomstick.
"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson
Was it only a SMART check, or did you run a fitness test? There's a lot of ways to tell a failing hard drive, and it's not always up to smart. Did you, per chance, hear clicking?
It's people like you who make this a bad world.
a highly unlikely story since i've never seen a bestbuy machine go out without a year or 6 month trial ware anti-virus. nor have i ever been asked to be anti-virus software with a pc from best buy.
probably just another sad attempt at a linux fanboi to try to slip the name into a conversation no matter how much his claims are untrue.
Given the planet is overpopulated with humans (we are polluting our own "nest" and running short of water and food and room), a ~5 billion decrease over the next hundred year may be an unpleasant but necessary thing for Mother Nature to do.
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