In the last 6 months how many people have you advised on purchasing a PC or Notebook?

[Hiren]

In the last 6 months how many people have you advised to purchasing a PC or Notebook?

Just trying to understand the bit-tech readership better.

[DaveVader]

IRL or online (or both)
I dunno to be honest, if it's replying to threads then quite a few, but IRL not many people know of my "geekiness"

[steveo_mcg]

Not so many of late, I've already bullied advised most folk i know on purchasing computers, so most are less than 3 years old which tbh is more than enough for most of the population.

[badders]

Originally Posted by steveo_mcg

Not so many of late, I've already bullied advised most folk i know on purchasing computers, so most are less than 3 years old which tbh is more than enough for most of the population.

+1 To be honest, most people I know are mid-upgrade cycle at the moment.

[oasked]

1 here, I even went through and chose all the options on Dell's site for them.

[badders]

Originally Posted by oasked

1 here, I even went through and chose all the options on Dell's site for them.

He said Advised, not sabotaged!!

Jokes...Dell aren't bad for normal office stuff/websurfing

[oasked]

It was a laptop....

[Journeyer]

20+ actually - I'm well known as being the office/neighbourhood geek.

[UncertainGod]

I think I've built/bought around 5 systems in that time and probably advised on quite a few more when down the pub.

[VictorianBloke]

I've never advised anyone to buy, I have built for people though that have asked for advice and will be again soonish. I nearly got burned at uni by a company that went into receivership the day after I took delivery of a faulty base unit. Since then I've trusted myself. If I count that as advice then one in the last 6 months, upgrades...lots

[Squadexodus]

7 Of them, 5 Followed through. One of them is better than my comp, Unfortunatley...

[The_Beast]

I've helped people pick out parts, does that count???


if so I'd say 5-10

[LeMaltor]

Everyone that has posted so far needs to buy a PC or laptop, that's 12 people I have advised then

[Delphium]

Advised on some upgrade bits for a couple of friends online, and assisted a RL mate with picking the parts and building it for him.

[BioSniper]

Advised parts builds mostly as I seem to be the only one that keeps with with the "bang-for-buck" stuff out of people I know.
Most just say I have £xxx spec me something that you think is good for the money, and they usually buy it.

[Oreon_237]

Told my sister what laptop to get, i specced out something for my friend (cost way more than i could ever spend), and specced my cousins rig up too. plus all the upgrades that ive done

[Geektechnica]

20+ Easily. I'm a SysAdmin for a medium sized company, I get people walking into my office all the time asking for recommendations for a new PC, or a new laptop for the wifey or their kid that is going off to college.

[Shadow_101]

grand total of about 2.

[sotu1]

loads, but the conversation usually goes like this:

me: what do you want a new pc for?
them: my one runs slow. i use it for msn and facebook and myspace.
me: reboot your pc. a 10 year old pc will do the job fine.

and when someone really does want a new pc and ask me what to get i make recomendations on exactly what to get. then they buy any old ill suited crap off dell.

idiots.

ppl on bit-tech are cool tho. you guys listen

[mctigger]

probably 3-5 to IRL, but the number of times people have asked me at the pub and which i have "forgot" about, so it could be more