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Jacob Mei
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Posted - 2009.04.21 03:40:00 -
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Arnt they owned by Dell these days?
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Jacob Mei
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Posted - 2009.04.21 03:48:00 -
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 Originally by: Brea Lafail
Also, Alienware already has a reputation of overpriced ****. My brother was talking about buying his next PC from them. I no longer have a brother.
Harsh but likely saved you a bunch of I.T. headaches, lol.
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Jacob Mei
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Posted - 2009.04.21 06:03:00 -
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Originally by: Velocity Prime
Yep, you guys are right. I won't be buying anything from them in the future, I'll be building my own.
Good call. In this day and age its so easy to build and customize a computer that you will wonder why you didnt do it sooner. You will find that generally your headaches will be less when you just have to swap out a heat sink or graphics card to fix your problem as opposed to shipping the thing back and finding out that the company is trying to screw you by putting in older parts than they should.
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Jacob Mei
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Posted - 2009.04.21 15:19:00 -
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Edited by: Jacob Mei on 21/04/2009 15:23:04
Edited by: Jacob Mei on 21/04/2009 15:20:27
Building your own computer only takes about three hours even if you donĘt know what you are doing thanks to the "plug it here stupid" approach the interior of pc's so really the cost of your personal time, unless you are making high double low triple digits an hour is quite negligible.
The sheer number of people who show off what consists of their rigs these days means posting a thread asking for help, stating what you are looking at and what you need the computer to do means that on a site such a this will see several responses of free help within the hour.
IT tech support is over rated, in my experience so long as you donĘt actively abuse your computer (ie download programs with wreckless abandon, constantly keep the thing stressed with all the resources at 100% and so forth when a problem does arise a few minutes of trouble shooting will usually give you a good indication of what the problem is and again thanks to the internet you can get a second opinion for free from fellow computer users on websites such as this even.
Also Dell is the worst company to expect IT support from. I bought my first computer from them because at the time there support was supposively award winning. Looking back I spent no less than two plus hours either doing what they asked me to or convincing them that I knew what I was talking about before they finally admitted there was a problem and sent someone to fix it per issue (the computer had about 6 issues throught the time I owned it). The worst instance was the last when the IT was in my house and insulted me because my father demanded Dell come out and fix their computer. After that I just wont give Dell a second glance these days.
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