Santilli
Hairy Aussie
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- Jan 27, 2002
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Hi
A friend who bought my 3000 Athlon 939, called me up, and asked me if I'd install software on his new 1.6 Ghz AMD processor, Gateway laptop. It came with a gig of ram, 15.4 inch screen, and, a 4200 rpm harddrive. When I looked at the bill, it was amazing. They charged him 120 dollars to install two AV programs, and windows, and make an installer disk. I'm still in shock, but, they managed to tack 425 dollars onto a 600 dollar laptop, with no software, except Vista.
They 'gave' him a POS all in one printer for a 129 dollars. WHAT A DEAL. It was his lucky day, since he hadn't picked it up, or opened it, so, it's returned.
His needs are a basic printer. A laptop that he can take to work, connect via Cat5 to the internet, and surf. Down the road, he MIGHT actually buy a digital camera.
Anyone have any suggestions for an inexpensive laptop, with basic software, for a good price?
Thanks
Greg
A friend who bought my 3000 Athlon 939, called me up, and asked me if I'd install software on his new 1.6 Ghz AMD processor, Gateway laptop. It came with a gig of ram, 15.4 inch screen, and, a 4200 rpm harddrive. When I looked at the bill, it was amazing. They charged him 120 dollars to install two AV programs, and windows, and make an installer disk. I'm still in shock, but, they managed to tack 425 dollars onto a 600 dollar laptop, with no software, except Vista.
They 'gave' him a POS all in one printer for a 129 dollars. WHAT A DEAL. It was his lucky day, since he hadn't picked it up, or opened it, so, it's returned.
His needs are a basic printer. A laptop that he can take to work, connect via Cat5 to the internet, and surf. Down the road, he MIGHT actually buy a digital camera.
Anyone have any suggestions for an inexpensive laptop, with basic software, for a good price?
Thanks
Greg