[Cialug] OT: what computer....

[chris129 at cs.iastate.edu]

Tell them not to buy it at Best Buy and wish them luck!

It doesn't matter what they buy now they'll:
1.)  Want Vista in 2 years.
2.)  Have to pay someone to reload it in 18 months.
3.)  Probably have utterly destroyed it with spyware within 2 months (I'm
assuming it's a home computer).

I usually tell people to go for Dell desktops and to avoid their laptops like
the plague.  Buy a Thinkpad or a Toshiba (or Apple if you want something
approximating a useful OS).
And if they do buy a Dell, I usually recommend the long warranty.  Unless they
just like buying computers often!



There's also the cop-out option:  "Do I look like the kid down the street?  I
deal with big iron lady, I don't even know how to turn a PC on!"  Or, mine. 
"I'm a programmer not a pc repairman."  Then there's also, "What's Microsoft
and Dell?"

Quoting "Nathan C. Smith" <smith at ipmvs.com>:

> 
> Inevitably you get asked the question by a family member or somebody at
> work: what computer should I get?  Is Dell OK?
> 
> I always shrug.
> 
> To me telling somebody to go to dell is akin to sending somebody to Wal-Mart
> or Microsoft and hanging them out to dry.
> 
> And just to keep this off-thread, and Linux out of the picture, let's say
> Apple is not an option.  This person wants "Microsoft".
> 
> What do you do?
> 
> -Nate
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