Please correct me if I'm wrong
I was at work in the computer lab again today (helping the 80 year olds learn to use computers) and one of the shaky old ladies asked me if I had heard of a certain computer place here in town. It's one of those places in the back of someone's garage where they put together their own computers - where hard-core gamers go to build their own systems - and she wanted to know what she should tell them to put on her new computer that she was ordering from them.
Somebody told this old dear not to go to Staples where it all comes in a box and you just plug the darn thing in 'cuz supposedly they will rip you off. NOOOOOOOOOOOO, they sent her to this back door place where she doesn't have a clue what they're talking about and they don't have a clue what an old woman might need and 6 months from now when she's run into trouble, they'll be long gone.
I wanted to tell her to just go to the big box electronics store. It's all in the box and if you go to the right store, for an extra $20 the guy will even come over and plug it all in for you - AND it comes with a ton of software pre-installed and your don't need to trot all over the place looking for it.
This system she's specing out won't have any office stuff on it since it's a gamers machine and I know of this place and they HATE Micro$oft so they'll put some Lotus stuff on it if anything and where is she going to find anyone to help her with that??
I'm riled, can you tell? At least at Staples, if it doesn't work, you can take it back.
Margaret
