Don't know if this is the right area, but I've just spoke to a mate who had a hard drive go down, as he doesn't know all that much he went to Dixons and bought a 20 gig drive, for £60!!! I nearlly fell off my chair, you cna get a 60 gig for near enough that price!! :cries:
In the states we call that place Best Buy. Great for a tv, DVD, or a CD but ddddaaammnnn what a rip with anything worth while on a comp..
When I upgraded my system recently with an Epox board -lurvley- which was quite reasonably piced at PC world I then asked if they had a 256Mb stick of PC2100 the guy came back with a -no brand- stick of RAM and asked me for... £129.99 okay not quite as bad as the PC133 price but man.. I promtly pointed out a bus journey down the road and I could get the same -if not better RAM- for £60. Urg Jon
i must be very lucky as ccl computers is a bus ride away from em & a 3 second car journey if my dad drives (i live in dewsbury about 40 mins away from bradford) & my other passion hifi is also cheap as i have a richer sounds in leeds (also not long away from me) & a lot of other hifi stores in leeds as well i finally found an upside to where i live
Not entirely true that, I just got a keyboard from there for just over 6 squid, and it looks the buisiness
That reminds me of last year when I was on holiday, a good friend of mine had a problem with his PC. His PSU fan was making a lot of noise, and as I wasn't around to ask he phoned up one of my "competitors" in the local paper. The guy charged him £120 to replace the PSU when all it needed was a new fan! That's an even worse ripoff than PCWorld.
So you're saying it's ok if you're looking for something under 10 squid? In the states Best Buy is definately the leader in ripoffs. I've gotten to the point where the only thing I think of, related to computers, there is changing the screensaver to "BestBuy5u><0|25"
LOL That reminds me of what me and my mate Stuart used to do in our local Tempo (R.I.P.) We changed the screensaver to scrolling marquee with the message "This computer has been hacked, in 10 minutes it will be rendered useless". We did it when no one was looking, then stood well away to watch the action. Within minutes all the staff gathered round, **** scared, trying to figure out what to do
for all of you terrorists like adam, on all the pc's in dixons & currys you can get rid of the rolling demp by control - alt - delete, then set a scrolling screensaver to come on a minute later
PC wOrld aint that bad, when i bought my logitech cordless intelimouse, the woman at the till screwed it up and got the wrong price for the mouse, (a lower pric)
ok ok, calm down. I admit they're not tha bad but they are not great either. Sometimes you get a good deal but most of the time you don't.
u can have even more fun on the macs cause they don't know how to fix them... one of the best i've heard is setting smpletext to say out the same phrase you've typed in over and over again.... then carefully move the window out of site.... turn the speakers up and leave
Yeah, i went into my local curry's and changed all the passwords on the PDA's + a few screensavers. (ok, it's not big and its not clever, but who cares it gives the sales assistants something to do!) AoD :dude:
In case anyone gets the wrong impression I should say that I was very young when I did this. I remember one computer I did it on was a P200 with 32mb RAM costing £2000. That's how long ago it was.
I once walked into Commet, got out my CD with 3DMARK2k1 on and installed it. The sales assistant came up to me and asked what I was doing, and I said I was benching it. He didn't bat an eyelid while I installed 3DM on all the machines. LOL
