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Mikki

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Well, 2 X 256 is 512, so that MUST mean it's twice as fast, right?

hehe :)
 

Thegonagle

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Wow! 2000 downloaded MP3s. Woohoo!

And installed copies of "his friend's dad's" Windows and Office software! (I bet he doesn't even have the CDs.)
 

Furor

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Mar 31, 2001
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The gateway quote for the custom machine is 3,126.00

Buy it now is set for 4,000 dollars, half of what gateway would charge

I am the fararri of computers

rolleye.gif
 

geno

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And Ram? 1024MB of DDR Ram. Thats double data rate. Which means it works FASTER than 2 GIGABYTES OF RAM!!!!!!!!!!
Wow, that doesn't even make sense....


This must be JeffK's computar mahcine :D
 

athithi

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Mar 5, 2002
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Hey, don't be so tough on the poor guy :) Maybe the case is made out of 24K Gold! Maybe he's got a midget sitting inside (that would explain how the motherboard "talks" to you ;) )

spp, everytime I need a laugh I watch this wimp selling computers on HSN - I think the program is called Electronics Essentials or something like that :D I love the way they hang up those CDs like some trophies :) But you gotta love the wimp - he takes himself so friggin' seriously :|
 

HappyPuppy

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Anybody looked at the pictures? It looks like the burner tray is broken and there's an empty bay where the floppy drive would be.
 

jlee

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2000 mp3's? You cant put a pricetag on that, it's taken a lifetime to download them

Rofl, sounds like someone has been stuck on 56k! ;)
 

Swanny

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Ok, my machine is almost as good as that. I'd take mine any day before his. The funny thing is: There's nothing special about it.

I drop an XP 2000+ and another 512Mb my machine and it's the same thing.
 

MaxDSP

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Id seriously consider reporting him to ebay for fraud if I wasn't late for work and ROFL

:D
 

Frosty3799

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Originally posted by: Turin39789
he has relisted it, toned it down a bit but its still got a lot of nef in it

re-list link

EDIT: Damn, you cant even read the new one.. thats pretty bad how he copy-pasted the whole Gateway and Dell configs onto the page, without spacing it out or anything...

And he doesnt even tell you the prices for the configs. just says that he should be charging $2000-$5000

... oh yea, and he also WAY over configed the systems compared to his
 

geno

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his 1 Gig of DDR ram is as good as 2 Gigs of SDR - *LOL* :D:D

I'm so very close to sending this guy an email just so I can point out the moronic claims... :p
 

cwem1984

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Hello all of you. I am very very amused that my little auction got so much attention. I hope it wasn't my "15 minutes" but it might have been close to it. I am fully aware the computer is not a supercomputer. It is only a single p4. Now maybe if it had a quad board maybe it would be. Supercomputers, by at least my definition, are wortstation servers, preforming teraflops per second, not exactly within a p4's range. It is a very fast computer, but nothing too special. I posted the auction for 2 reasons. One as an experiment. Put on crap and a high reserve and see if someone buys it, or say the truth and sell it for a dollar with no reserve, and see which gets more. As of now with the relisted auction, there has been 14 bids in 4 hours, and it is already at 405 dollars. I see my experiement has great results. The other point was, to see actually how dumb the american people can be. It is true, gateway would charge 5 times more to build that, but I built the damn thing for a little under a grand. It's just a simple marketing scheme to see how stupid and gullable people actually are. And those who said I was probably laughing when I put it on...........were very correct! the only time ive ever laughed harder was when I saw goldmember. It is true the average population has the intellect of a rotting eggplant, but it is incredibly fun to take advantage of that and use to to ammuse me. I wish I saved all the hate mail I got, because, well, it shows that our country at least has some intelligent people out there. I cant say I would have been upset had someone bought it now for 4K thinking it was great. Oh well! The real listing is on, and yes I did inflate it SOMEWHAT, like the 512 cache and the DDR Ram, becuase 512 is faster than 256 and DDR is alot faster than SD Ram. Just the way it goes. I dont work for crappy computer companies, im just an 18 year old who's trying to make alot of money. To those who couldn't possibly believe I was telling the truth: Im glad you had a good laugh, as did I. Thank you for providing me with amusement. For those who thought I was serious: Might a reccomend a catscan? Visit my auction and bid if you'd like. I thank you for participating in my experiment and providing me with enjoyment. Please email me at Cwem1984@hotmail.com with any more questions/comments. I love getting mail. = ).
 

Salvador

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Dood.. Have you ever considered using paragraphs?

BTW.. I thought your description was brilliant! You are definitely talking the "Ebayer" language. I'm surprised that you didn't sell your "super" computer.

Sal
 

cwem1984

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Also in addition my relisted auction has nothing wrong with it. I didn't space the words out out because I dont need to. If you bothered to look at the auction it has 14 bids in under 5 hours. I could say it was filled with doggie poo and the'd still bid on it, becuase they know it has a pentium 4. Thats all they look for. It shouldn't be that big of a deal, considering the fact that Im making alot of money on it, and im doing it by people being stupid! It'll sell for 2 grand, and i'll build 2 pc's and sell one of them. And from that 2 grand, i'll build another 2, and another 2, and another 2, and sell them, continually making alot of money. So perhaps you might want to follow my lead, because im making a incredible amount of money from this....