Re: It was only a matter of time

On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:20:40 GMT, "Ed Chait"
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Marsha Wrote:
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Always try to blame the consumer for believing them. I hope they pay
out good on this one. Friend of mine just bought a Vista machine. Oops,
only thing is it has the 500ish RAM instead of the 4 GB required to run
it optimally. This really pisses me off. Make the end user responsible
for understanding all the technology and if they can't, blame them.


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RaeMorrill


Ummmmm, the end user *should* be responsible for knowing enough about the
technology to know what their needs are and what they need to buy to fill
those needs.

Buying a computer isn't like buying a toaster. Computers and computing are
highly technical things. Buyers need to be educated or to ask someone who
is educated to help them with their purchase.

Unfortunately, that is rarely the case, and most computer
manufacturers for the public have tried to make it "like buying a
toaster." Just walk into any major big box store, and you'll see all
sorts of offers. Turn on any TV, and you'll see similar offers.

It's not until you get that "great" computer home that you'll find out
that it isn't quite as good as the sales pitch would have you think.

I guess Microsoft should hold free classes in every community in the world
and make it mandatatory that everyone attend so they won't sue them when
they buy the wrong pc.

ed

Well, MS brought a lot of this on themselves, Ed. Even when they were
at RC 1, they weren't saying exactly what was going to be needed for
the system, and left a lot of the PC manufacturers dangling. I've
been around long enough to know that any time MS says you'll need a
"minimum" to run their new system, you'd better double that right out
of the box in order to get anything resembling decent performance. But
then again, I've actually run a computer shop, so I'm much better
informed than the average user.

What's really fun is that most of the tech magazines (even the "pro
MS" ones) are calling Vista the "Windows ME" of the XP family. Which
is not a good thing.

Doug Jones
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