When faced with the question “Should I spend $400 upgrading my current PC or just buy a new one for $600, I opted for the new box. My old one was a Dell, and now I’m using an HP with dual 19″ monitors. I bought it at Best Buy, despite a bad experience I had there a few years ago. And guess what? Once again BB has undermined my shaky confidence. The box I bought had a 320GB hard drive. When I got it home and turned it on, went through all the fundamental setups required by Vista and began loading my program set, I found out the box I brought home only has a 50GB HD, which is only 10GB more than my Dell had. The HD space was one of the main reasons I decided to upgrade. So today I’ll disconnect the new HP and take it back to BB, where they’ll either replace the HD or give me my money back.
Side note: The dual monitors look great! I’m about to kick my productivity into overdrive.
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Nosy readers wanna know: did BB take care of you?
I “gotta guy” who handles all my ‘perputer stuff.
But that’s Cheecago for ya…everyone “knows a guy”
:)
Well, I am that guy for all my friends and family. My mom calls me almost daily with some new scourge that’s attacked her and is wiping out her hard drive faster than she can speed dial her son. And in answer to Part A of that question: BB did fine by me. The 50GB HD was mislabled at the HP factory, so it wasn’t Best Buy’s fault at all, so all my unrelenting fury fizzled pretty quickly once I realized that. (Plus, the Geek Squad Agent was very nice to me, so it was very difficult to unleash doom upon them all). Anyway, I’ll probably post about it soon, so you can have details you never dreamed possible! Except… you know, in dreams ‘n stuff.
L8r :-)