saw the comercial today and was appaled that it took them this long to copy apple hardware...instead of calling it a CD-RW/DVD-R its now a "combo" goddamn them dell folk.
just fyi, over this past week, i stayed with my sister-in-law and she has one of those dell boxes bought off the ads, and boy oh boy, she saved a lot, but that thing is dog slow and crippled running windows xp home and hardly anything else. i could barely install acrobat reader on it (though i blame adobe's insistence on using an adobe "helper" script that seems to conflict with xp).
the monitor is SMALL (though the commercial makes it look big... probably a photoshopped high res image on the screen, and the speakers and tower are small in person, but on the ad, they make the monitor seem much larger.
and the whole thing felt cheap. damn cheap. i'm sorry, but it did. sure, she saved a lot of money, AND got a free printer in the deal, but i will still happily pay an extra $1000 for an imac equivalent.
just fyi, over this past week, i stayed with my sister-in-law and she has one of those dell boxes bought off the ads, and boy oh boy, she saved a lot, but that thing is dog slow and crippled running windows xp home and hardly anything else. i could barely install acrobat reader on it (though i blame adobe's insistence on using an adobe "helper" script that seems to conflict with xp).
the monitor is SMALL (though the commercial makes it look big... probably a photoshopped high res image on the screen, and the speakers and tower are small in person, but on the ad, they make the monitor seem much larger.
and the whole thing felt cheap. damn cheap. i'm sorry, but it did. sure, she saved a lot of money, AND got a free printer in the deal, but i will still happily pay an extra $1000 for an imac equivalent.
yeah.. i run off one at home and it sux...i got a G4 tiBook on its way tho
I have no problem with them calling it a combo drive. Everybody else uses the term combo drive for a DVD-ROM/CD-RW so buyers will be more likely to confuse the DVD±RW drive for lesser hardware.
Exactly Combo isn't a trademark. What's dumb is how they offer "free upgrades" like this. Um, free cd-rw/dvd? Wow that's like buying a car with 3 wheels and getting the 4th free. What a bargain!
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the monitor is SMALL (though the commercial makes it look big... probably a photoshopped high res image on the screen, and the speakers and tower are small in person, but on the ad, they make the monitor seem much larger.
and the whole thing felt cheap. damn cheap. i'm sorry, but it did. sure, she saved a lot of money, AND got a free printer in the deal, but i will still happily pay an extra $1000 for an imac equivalent.
Originally posted by rok
just fyi, over this past week, i stayed with my sister-in-law and she has one of those dell boxes bought off the ads, and boy oh boy, she saved a lot, but that thing is dog slow and crippled running windows xp home and hardly anything else. i could barely install acrobat reader on it (though i blame adobe's insistence on using an adobe "helper" script that seems to conflict with xp).
the monitor is SMALL (though the commercial makes it look big... probably a photoshopped high res image on the screen, and the speakers and tower are small in person, but on the ad, they make the monitor seem much larger.
and the whole thing felt cheap. damn cheap. i'm sorry, but it did. sure, she saved a lot of money, AND got a free printer in the deal, but i will still happily pay an extra $1000 for an imac equivalent.
yeah.. i run off one at home and it sux...i got a G4 tiBook on its way tho