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hasbeengrendel

Gateway and Acer Suck

Jan 09, 2009 07:05

Gateway and Acer suck. We've had a brand new Gateway for about 60 days, and have yet to see it boot directly to Windows. Gateway's solution? Send it back, over and over again, and then they return it ... unrepaired ( Read more... )

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riverpebble January 11 2009, 06:36:11 UTC

Dude, I've known Gateway sucked for about a decade, the last time I had to troubleshoot one, the damned thing was running Windows Millenium Edition, MILLENIUM!!! and also the tech support and drivers were shit...

Also, Acer? where the hell has the school been shopping, Fry's? Microcenter?

go for Lenovo, they went from being cheap to buying out chunks of IBM and making the new ThinkPad

Ha riverpebble January 13 2009, 03:39:25 UTC

Not a school computer. It's my own. Wait, it's Stephanie's. I have a Dell. The school district makes us buy Dells, and they're OK. I worked on a ME computer once. After an hour I just wiped the piece of crap and put a different OS on it.

catcherof22 January 13 2009, 02:11:03 UTC

I'm thinking of a new computer... you heard my video card went to shit, right?

It's just starting to get tired... and big... and loud...

Also, I signed up for Netflix - any suggestions on movies I wouldn't have heard about otherwise?

Also - go listen to Jesse Cook. See if you can find the song Cafe Mocha, Matisse the Cat, or It Ain't Me Babe. I promise they're good. (But search in that order :) )

Hair today, gone tomorrow hasbeengrendel January 13 2009, 03:36:20 UTC

I bought a Dell at Best Buy and am very happy with it. I'm even happy with Vista, which can be tamed, and which runs really fast, at least on this machine. I have a shitpot full of RAM, which helps. Still only $800.

Movies: Lives of Others, In Bruges and Grizzly Man (or anything by Werner Hertzog). I'll look up the music. Didn't sleep last night and am in a rotten mood, not a good thing for music.

I like that third pictures. Hair looks splendid.