So I was at Walmart looking at laptops

Psoasman

I was looking at a nice Dell, which I can't get until my old Dell dies, which it won't.
Anyway, a girl was looking at the laptops and the walmart associate was telling her that the RAM was the drive. Normally, I would keep going, but decided to help her out. I explained the differences to her and she picked something else.

Just wanted to share

mikedisd2

I wish my RAM was the drive. That would give me 160GB of RAM.

msteinhilber

Psoasman wrote: »

Normally, I would keep going, but decided to help her out. I explained the differences to her and she picked something else.

Is this how us geeks are trying to pickup the chicks these days?

Did it work??

qwertyiop

Psoasman wrote: »

I was looking at a nice Dell, which I can't get until my old Dell dies, which it won't.
Anyway, a girl was looking at the laptops and the walmart associate was telling her that the RAM was the drive. Normally, I would keep going, but decided to help her out. I explained the differences to her and she picked something else.

Just wanted to share

I dont know about the rest of you but I hate going stores cause the sales reps don't know anything. I used to go with my dad when he needed something and found it funny when he asked them a question or about a function of one of their products and they tell him that it doesn't exist or is not possible when I know that it does exist and that it is very possible. I've always hated the way the way geek squad and all those other "in-store techs" think they know everything especially when you know alot more then them. They care more about selling there unnecessary service then actually helping the customers. The only real requirement to get one of those jobs is to be able to speak and know 1% more then the average customer.

Psoasman

msteinhilber wrote: »

Is this how us geeks are trying to pickup the chicks these days?

Did it work??

I am married and her rather large husband was standing there. I did manage to get a dirty look from the "knowledgeable" associate

Psoasman

qwertyiop wrote: »

I dont know about the rest of you but I hate going stores cause the sales reps don't know anything. I used to go with my dad when he needed something and found it funny when he asked them a question or about a function of one of their products and they tell him that it doesn't exist or is not possible when I know that it does exist and that it is very possible. I've always hated the way the way geek squad and all those other "in-store techs" think they know everything especially when you know alot more then them. They care more about selling there unnecessary service then actually helping the customers. The only real requirement to get one of those jobs is to be able to speak and know 1% more then the average customer.

I went with my niece to get a laptop from Best Buy. The salesman was very pushy about the service contracts, especially the one with the batter replacement and the "over 100 vista hacks" to make it run better.

Pash

qwertyiop wrote: »

I dont know about the rest of you but I hate going stores cause the sales reps don't know anything. I used to go with my dad when he needed something and found it funny when he asked them a question or about a function of one of their products and they tell him that it doesn't exist or is not possible when I know that it does exist and that it is very possible. I've always hated the way the way geek squad and all those other "in-store techs" think they know everything especially when you know alot more then them. They care more about selling there unnecessary service then actually helping the customers. The only real requirement to get one of those jobs is to be able to speak and know 1% more then the average customer.

Dunno why it jacks you up lots. At the end of the day if those people didnt exist a lot of us would find trouble getting the real gigs?

Kaminsky

When I was a lad I got a Commodore 64 which had a thin cable going to the screen. Within a week it was knackered so I went to the shop on a Saturday afternoon when it was very busy. As I expected, being so young they ignored me at first then tried to fob me off but I stuck at it.

Eventually this sales woman said to get a wire coat hanger and unravel it and stick one end in the back of the C64 and the other in the back of the tv. That was probably about the first time I realised, sales assistants really don't have a clue. Initially I was staggered at just how rediculous her answer was but then proceeded to get very, very loud until they stumped up a new cable as lots of other people were leaving the store fast.

Zartanasaurus

msteinhilber wrote: »

Is this how us geeks are trying to pickup the chicks these days?

Did it work??

Dear Penthouse...

veritas_libertas

Psoasman wrote: »

I did manage to get a dirty look from the "knowledgeable" associate

Always a plus

arwes

Well I'm sure the drive is randomly accessed!

msteinhilber

arwes wrote: »

Well I'm sure the drive is randomly accessed!

Clearly the Walmart associate was an uber-geek and that was a top of the line notebook with numerous massive number into the megajiggasuperbytes of RAM and the partition was a massive blazing fast ram-drive.

arwes

msteinhilber wrote: »

Clearly the Walmart associate was an uber-geek and that was a top of the line notebook with numerous massive number into the megajiggasuperbytes of RAM and the partition was a massive blazing fast ram-drive.

I'll take one of those and a cup of those popcorn shrimp they have at the checkouts.

UnixGuy

msteinhilber wrote: »

Is this how us geeks are trying to pickup the chicks these days?

Did it work??

LOL