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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Thursday, April 12, 2007 - 10:57 am
I was offering another perspective but I tend to agree with you Costa. It may be safer to go with a big company if you aren't computer savvy (especially if you don't have a rock solid recommendation for a local business). Also the in home warranty is a great idea! My concern with going with a large company is someone ending up trying to analyze and fix their computer problems by talking to someone in a call center. They give dreadful advice to people at times.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Thursday, April 12, 2007 - 12:56 pm
Jimmer,I knew what you meant! (yay, i knew something! LOL)
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Thursday, April 12, 2007 - 12:58 pm
Annie, I know you've had Gateway computers before, and have been happy. If I were you, I'd stick to Gateway.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Thursday, April 12, 2007 - 1:19 pm
HP service stinks!!! My parents had an HP (before their current Dell), and we've got all HP printers at school. When something major goes wrong w/the printers (which, granted, rarely happens), it is next to impossible to get HP to actually service them because our school does not maintain a "credit card" with them. We've finally given up and gone to the local guy in town who will service them AND he's cheaper! My parents, after a short "warranty" time, would be told any time they called (and before they even spoke to a human being) how much they would be charged for service calls (not to mention if a tech. was needed).
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Thursday, April 12, 2007 - 1:24 pm
You wouldn't believe the fricking run around I had with HP. I was ordering a computer that was to be sent to my mother in Colorado Springs. I confirmed EVERYTHING after I placed the order. So I get an email with a link to pay online (cool, yes?) and I pay. Then I get a confirmation email with the shipping address wrong (my address but my mother's city). So I call and I'm told that it'll be OK that the shipping office in Co Spgs will call because that addy won't exist. So I'm OK if you swear, OK. The next day I get a call that they can't ship the order cause of the wrong address. Hello? No kidding! So they want to cancel the order and recreate it. Fine. They do, and they've got MY ADDRESS as the shipping address for part of the order. Um, no, I am NOT reshipping the order from here to there. Cancel the entire thing, please, and I'll go elsewhere. Sheesh! Two days and I got conflicting stories from everyone I talked to!
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Thursday, April 12, 2007 - 5:36 pm
well, got a computer! called Gateway to configure what i wanted and found basically the same one at Best Buy for less! so i bought it. i am so excited! thanks for all your help!!!!!!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Thursday, April 12, 2007 - 8:43 pm
Yay!!!
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Friday, April 13, 2007 - 4:23 am
i got tickled yesterday. my son was asking about the new computer and i was telling him it was 2 GB of RAM and he asked what our old computer was. He was very skeptical that I had 'improved' our situation. I told him that our old computer was 384 MB of RAM. He said, 'yep, i guess that's an improvement!' LOL
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Friday, April 13, 2007 - 4:49 am
How the heck did you do ANYTHING with only 384 MB of RAM???? But... congrats! Glad you finally bought your new 'puter, Annie!
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Friday, April 13, 2007 - 5:08 am
ROFL!!!!!!!!!! told you it was an old one. but it was top of the line when we got it. 
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Friday, April 13, 2007 - 1:27 pm
oh wow!!! this is cool!!!! it's amazing what's happened in technology since the dark ages! LOL
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Friday, April 13, 2007 - 2:38 pm
The difference can be astonishing. You don't realize it until you see it!
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Friday, April 13, 2007 - 4:16 pm
HAHAHA! Welcome to the 21st century, Annie!
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Friday, April 13, 2007 - 5:42 pm
so true Jimmer. I thought except for the no sound and only having 3/4 of the monitor working, my puter was pretty good! Cost, LOL Thanks again for all your help you two!!!
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Friday, April 13, 2007 - 5:46 pm
Yay Tex for getting a new computer! Now you can use regular numbers instead of those darned old roman numerals. And you won't have to crank it up to start it.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Saturday, April 14, 2007 - 4:57 am
but i am gonna miss that hamster that ran on the wheel to keep it going! except for the sound and monitor, i am not really noticing all that much difference since most of the stuff i do is online and i have cable modem.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Saturday, April 14, 2007 - 7:31 am
Which is exactly why I said you needed to stop freaking out about buying a computer, and just buy one! I figured your requirements would be minimal compared to what I need, and pretty much ANY computer being sold today would work perfectly. My mother was using a really OLD laptop that I'd bequeathed her, with a dial-up connection. After I bought them their new 'puter, they went out and got DSL. And spent the next month calling me every other day to tell me how blazingly fast things were. I hadda laugh... um, mom, yeah, but most of it has to do with your Internet connection!!! 
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Saturday, April 14, 2007 - 8:33 am
i would die with out my road runner!!!!! Cost, you have to also know that i had my family 2nd guessing me every step of the way. they would listen to the 'experts at the message board'.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Saturday, April 14, 2007 - 3:22 pm
Smack yer family upside the hay-id and tell 'em ta trust in you! 
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Sunday, April 15, 2007 - 6:34 am
that's what i have been doing! LOL
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