Best Buy Rant
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Hmm.. I have a desktop w/ the AMD_Athlon 64 bit 3500+ I also have a recently newly purchased Gateway Laptop w/ the centrino.. The processor speed of the sony is a lil faster than my laptop and the processor speed of my desktop is a lil faster than the gateway..
All I know is my desktop outperforms my laptop by far.. But it also has twice the Ram
However, the centrino battery life is what I like, since it's based mostly on the fact it's just needed the essentials and good battery life.. 3+ hours on the centrino; prolly from my research about 1 1/2 hrs on that AMD
I want to upgrade my ram on the laptop to really compare the two, but for multitasking; I like my desktop..
Both will seem like decent laptops; just depends on if you are more of a multi-tasker or if you want longer battery life.. -
Looks to be you got a better computer in the end neways; and 640GB wow.. I got 250 and I thought that was overkill, can't ever have enough ram though..
what kind of vid-card you going to be running..? -
your desktop will outperform a laptop of the same specs 9times outta 10...centrino is kind of a crock of shit really...the only thing that makes it "centrino" is the M proccessor and the wireless card...i guarantee i can get the same battery life out of my laptop(with new battery) as someone with the same laptop with the centrino bullshit...if you have a laptop with a desktop chip of course the battery life is gonna suck...thats used to running on a basically unlimited power supply...also that 64 bit processor isnt good for shit unless your running 64 bit windows and 64 bit software....gateway has really cheaped up since they almost dropped outta the market...a couple years ago i wouldnt have recommended anything else BUT a gateway...you need to remember the processor/video and on board stuff like that is more important to buy right away than a bigger hd/more ram etc cause that stuff can be upgraded easier than a processor(it can be done but a lot of times the specs of the board etc cause it to be a pain in the ass)...
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Ya.. Well I bought my Laptop for general purpose reasons, don't use it for gaming, etc..
However it does have a DVD+RW; and.. what not.. and a decent 80 gig..
Battery life is good though.. boot up is kind of slow
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I understand what you guys are saying, but really...you can not judge a company on one bad employee. There are many companies that have one or more bad employees. When I bought my laptop, the guy that helped me was Cody, and he was very helpful, didn't try to sell me bullshit or anything like that. It is all in who you get to help you. I think Best Buy is an awesome store that has a lot of different items to shop for. And seeing that Media Play is going out of business, Best Buy will be one of the few electronic stores left. BTW...was in Media Play last night and some guy bought a life size Halo statue for $1025, after 70% off...does anyone know how much they origionally sell for in the beginning. Good luck with your Dell Jim!
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Lindz wrote:
I understand what you guys are saying, but really...you can not judge a company on one bad employee. There are many companies that have one or more bad employees. When I bought my laptop, the guy that helped me was Cody, and he was very helpful, didn't try to sell me bullshit or anything like that. It is all in who you get to help you. I think Best Buy is an awesome store that has a lot of different items to shop for. And seeing that Media Play is going out of business, Best Buy will be one of the few electronic stores left. BTW...was in Media Play last night and some guy bought a life size Halo statue for $1025, after 70% off...does anyone know how much they origionally sell for in the beginning. Good luck with your Dell Jim!If its the cody that i know hes definetly a good guy. seemed fishy to me that he(the employee jim is talkin about) said that the sony was not going to be onsale again for awhile and it was today......
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i think cody sold me my laptop to. i just flat out said gimme the laptop i dont want anything else besides your 3 yr warranty for extra.
he went to do somethin and another salesman kept askin me questions "what do you use for anti spyware" i said ad aware, he says some cheesy line like ad aware was rated 5th outta 6th programs, and spysweeper was ranked 1st and it can be yours for 30 bucks. i said nah.
i came home and downloaded spysweeper anyways.
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It sucks to hear about a bad experience like that, I know i've a few at some other stores but best buy has always seemed to be a good experience for me. I bought a vaio pc a while back, no problems whatso ever, then again I had cash in hand at the time. I haven't had anything computer oriented done there except buying some games since then though. I've always had peope ask if I needed help though. If I'm in there in the future to buy anything I'll just try to avoid that bastard. Who needs to buy antivirus software anyways when you can pirate.....um I mean download it off the internet.
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Jim wrote:
640gb (Dual RAID 0, 320gb Drives)
KidSupreme wrote:
Good god.I went more overboard then Jim...i have a terabyte of hard drive space. 2 500GB drives. btw jim i have the dual core intel chip too, and it's freakin fast. i wish you luck and enjoy your processing speed
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also on a side note, you would be amazed at some of the uber fuck-ups that best buy makes with thier geek squad team when they're 'fixing' people's computers. then people take them to me and i get to undo the damage by best buy. my personal recommendation...do NOT ever have the geek squad work on your computer.
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I have boughten two laptops from Best Buy. My first one was a Compaq at the Fargo store, can't really remember what happened, but I was cool with it. My second one was at the Richfield store, this is the best Best Buy store in the country, well..that's what the people at the Apple Valley and Burnsville store told me. The Richfield store is the best due to it being located two blocks away from the Coporate Campus, this store supposely has everything. No doubt, the people here are really nice, the guy who sold me the laptop offered all the plans and I turned him down. Right after he offered me the $150 anti-crap, he said don't get it.
Still wondering why Circuit City and Comp USA have yet to make their way up there....
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PSiedTSi wrote:
your desktop will outperform a laptop of the same specs 9times outta 10...centrino is kind of a crock of shit really...the only thing that makes it "centrino" is the M proccessor and the wireless card...i guarantee i can get the same battery life out of my laptop(with new battery) as someone with the same laptop with the centrino bullshit...if you have a laptop with a desktop chip of course the battery life is gonna suck...thats used to running on a basically unlimited power supply...also that 64 bit processor isnt good for shit unless your running 64 bit windows and 64 bit software....gateway has really cheaped up since they almost dropped outta the market...a couple years ago i wouldnt have recommended anything else BUT a gateway...you need to remember the processor/video and on board stuff like that is more important to buy right away than a bigger hd/more ram etc cause that stuff can be upgraded easier than a processor(it can be done but a lot of times the specs of the board etc cause it to be a pain in the ass)...i love my centrino, the battery lasts six hours.............:p
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From what I was told about w/ Best Buy is each stores goes off of a demographic area.. For ex: 1 store may be known for it's Video Dept like TVs etc. and what not..
Another 1 may be better known for it's Computer dept. depending on demographics, and the store is kind of setup for those areas.. -
personally jim, i think you got a good machine, but for future reference i would have to say go with alienware....alienware computers are sick
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