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Aaahh! Stupid annoying people!

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SWScorch

Diamond Member
So one of my 'friends' decides last week that he wants a laptop. No particular reason, he just wants to say he has one. Now, this guy also plays games on a regular basis, like RTCW, and many sports games. So of course he wants the laptop to play every game out there and for the next five years. Yeah okay, whatever. Get a GF2 Go or something and a P3 1.2 and a lot of ram. Well, now he doesnt want to spend over $1500. No way in hell he's gonna find a laptop under $1500 that will satisfy his needs.

Everytime we're both online at the same time, he sends me a link to a laptop and asks me if its good or not. If I say yea or nay, he has to ask why. And of course, he wants to know "can this laptop plug into a TV?" "Does this laptop have a floppy drive?" "Can this laptop burn CDs?" I told him what to look for: a 1GHz+ proc, at least 256mb of ram, and a GF2 or Radeon video card. But still he send me these links and refuses to look for himself.

Now apparently he's getting bored of searching for laptops and instead wants me to search for some good ones for him!!! His reasoning? Well, I know more than he does (granted) so it will be easier if I just give him the links to good laptops.

Right... he wants me to look for something that in no way effects me, when he has all the available resources, including an uberfast computer and the internet, just because hes lazy?

Gah!! Stop bothering me! This is why being the local computer geek has its disadvantages.. if no one is looking for you to "fix their internet;" thery want your advice on stuff. What ever happened to research? How do they think I know as much as I do?
 
I hate all these dumbass peeps that want the best, yet dont know what it is. "Isnt the p4 the best?" Yeah, if you wanna waste a couple hundred dollars more for a chip that does VERY little more than an Athlon. blah blah dumb peeps
 


<< I hate all these dumbass peeps that want the best, yet dont know what it is. "Isnt the p4 the best?" Yeah, if you wanna waste a couple hundred dollars more for a chip that does VERY little more than an Athlon. blah blah dumb peeps >>


Uh oh...don't open the flood gates
 
you can force him to read all the reviews online ... remember the old saying, teaching someone how to fish is better than giving that someone a fish.
 
i'd send him to review sites and tell him to look on his own, i did it for my friend and he found a better deal on a desktop build than i did
 
Dude, that's nothing. My friend kept on asking me for drivers for my D-Link ethernet card because his drivers for a generic ethernet card. I told him to look for drivers online and he said they didn't work for the card.. So, I send him the drivers and he says they don't work.. Then he keeps asking me where he can get drivers and such.. Then I ask him why he wants an Ethernet card, he replies, "To make my internet go faster."
I blocked him for like 2 days on AIM.
-- mrcodedude
 


<< Dude, that's nothing. My friend kept on asking me for drivers for my D-Link ethernet card because his drivers for a generic ethernet card. I told him to look for drivers online and he said they didn't work for the card.. So, I send him the drivers and he says they don't work.. Then he keeps asking me where he can get drivers and such.. Then I ask him why he wants an Ethernet card, he replies, "To make my internet go faster."
I blocked him for like 2 days on AIM.
-- mrcodedude >>



AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
😀
 


<< Dude, that's nothing. My friend kept on asking me for drivers for my D-Link ethernet card because his drivers for a generic ethernet card. I told him to look for drivers online and he said they didn't work for the card.. So, I send him the drivers and he says they don't work.. Then he keeps asking me where he can get drivers and such.. Then I ask him why he wants an Ethernet card, he replies, "To make my internet go faster."
I blocked him for like 2 days on AIM.
-- mrcodedude >>





LOL 😀
 
I hear you man, I hear you. A friend of mine wanted me to help him buy a computer when he had enough money saved up. He asked me if I knew how to build them, and I said yes. After giving it some thought, I decided I didn't want to be the resident tech support person until the day I die, so I'm going to help him configure a dell with a 3 year warrentee.

I know I could hook him up if I built it for him, but since he doesn't know a thing about computers, I don't want to have to service his machine any time it breaks down.

Ryan
 
So you're deffering this laptop searching to us now, just like he did to you? Just messin with ya! 🙂



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thank god im not the local computer geek. i just pretend im as clueless as everyone else.
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Word! That's what I do here @ school (university). If anyone needs comp help, oh Shawn next door can solve all your problems (yet I'm helping him on a regular basis - behind closed doors of course!).
 
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