Don Foreman wrote:

On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 06:46:09 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:


Don Foreman wrote:

On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:22:55 -0800 (PST), Too_Many_Tools
wrote:

Since we are in the last week before Christmas, I was wondering if
there were any GOOD sales for the metal or wood workshop?

If you know of one, let us know.

Thanks

Do you regard a 'puter as a shop tool? (I do)

It occurred to me to wonder if computer makers might be pricing
aggressively with consumer spending so constipated. The "house" 'puter
is a decade old, never has crashed. It's time to retire that
faithful old box.

Dell had some good deals going when I looked toward end of Nov. One
could get a 'puter with a 20" monitor for less than the monitor would
have cost not long ago. The specs are nuts: quad core, 4 gig of RAM,
500 gig of HD are now cheapseats ordinary. Good gawd!!!


Not to mention VISTA, and device drivers that are not availible to
the end user for their SATA CDROM & DVD drives.

I can't find anything about Vista to recommend it. My son will be
converting the box to XP. I'm too lazy to learn Linux and we have a
bunch of legacy apps that run under Windows.

A freind of mine bought a new dell earlier this year. I installed some
A/V and anti spyware software for them. They moved north nd had to
change to Verison for their DSL provider. As soon as they turned the
computer on it started to download & install a bunch of crap from
Verison. It crashed during their force feed, so they called Verison tech
support. They let them do a remote session, and proceeded to screw it
up, even worse. Finally, they had to pay Dell to reinstall the drivers
that disappeared, like the drives and USB ports.


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