People who pretend they know loads about computers :@

Just two days ago the last part happened...

From a niece, "Uncle Fred, I got a HP laptop from the pawn shop I work at, it won't boot. It starts and I get an error." I tell her it can't find the boot partition, since she is getting it from somebody else and no telling what crap is on it she needs to start from scratch. She did great formatting the drive and reloading Win 7.

Later they got some parts in from a buy-out of a small repair shop. One thing was a 250 Gig larger hard drive than in her laptop. She called and asked if I could put in the 750 Gig so it would make her laptop "a lot faster". She thought it would make it 50% faster. :lol:
 
I still have mates that call the tower of a PC it's ''hard drive''... and even ones who think the monitor is the actual PC x.x
It's a sad, sad world.
 
I go into PCWorld just for the lols sometimes. Walk in and pretend to know nothing but ask a simple question... Like... I want a laptop to play games on the highest settings. Their immediate reaction? MacBook Air or those Sony ones with Beats audio only because they're the most expensive. Then I start dicatacting to them how a GT630 can't possibly play BF3 on high and how the memory bus width is restricting the card... They look at me as if I'm a criminal.
 
Netroxen said:
I go into PCWorld just for the lols sometimes. Walk in and pretend to know nothing but ask a simple question... Like... I want a laptop to play games on the highest settings. Their immediate reaction? MacBook Air or those Sony ones with Beats audio only because they're the most expensive. Then I start dicatacting to them how a GT630 can't possibly play BF3 on high and how the memory bus width is restricting the card... They look at me as if I'm a criminal.
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Ya i ignore everyone who just spits out shit from their ass... Not worth arguing but if they are willing to listen and learn from someone who is more knowledgeable(not always me) then it's not that bad, just makes them look less arrogant.
 
I now a few people who still argue that 3G means that the phone is unlocked to any network, how do the figure 4G then ?
 
last time i went to scan to rma a broken pin on one of the nzxt led kits (which the guy happily fixed for me btw) but i couldn't fail to notice the neighboring technician installing the goddamn nvidia drivers from a cd. i didnt say anything cause i didnt want to sound like a know it all but part of me died in there :(
 
Weird happening Sunday. I was at a store called Sam's...it is a shopping club you have to pay to shop at. We kept the family plan, my ex wife pays the membership fee. She benefits since I had the membership for decades and get special offers being a long time customer.

Anyway, a couple at Sam's kept looking at me, I thought they looked familiar, but I'm like that with faces, if I had seen them before and they were nice or we interacted I'll remember the faces. Later in there they came over to me and asked if I used to work at Sears. I said I never did, but used to go there a lot when I bought Craftsman tools for myself and my training classes where I worked. They said a guy that looked just like me helped them in the computer area many years ago and they remembered because they were sent to Tenex, a local computer store, and got exactly what they wanted.

Then I remembered them. I was at Sears near the computers and overheard a sales guy giving them a line of BS about computers. He got called away to a call. I walked over to them and asked what they were looking for. They wanted a computer for their home business. Sears had outdated overpriced crap. I told them about Tenex, it was just down the road. I told them to go there and tell the sales people what they needed a computer for and they'd fix them up with a custom built system and for a better price. After I gave them directions, just had to mention Louie's Tux Shop, they knew where to go. After they walked away the salesman got off the phone. He came over to me and asked where the people went. I told him I sent them elsewhere for something good. He said, "What do you know about computers? I'm trained." He got to me a bit, I told him, "First, I work with computers, have been longer than you are old. Second, you are a lying sack of shit, 99% of what you were telling those people was bullshit." He stomped away like a 2 year old.

Back to the couple. At Sam's they thanked me for sending them to Tenex all those years ago. The company went under long ago during a custom PC slow down (everybody was buying Dells and Gateways, not customs anymore), they said Rob, one of the former custom builders there still takes care of them. Has his own business building customs and servicing them.
 
Today I went into PC world to pick up a simple case fan for a freind's future gift. It took 3 people and one of their special "tech team" (Or whatever they went by) to work out what a case fan was.I'm not joking, the closest one of the non techies got to was a laptop cooler. Disgusting. No apologies either, just sheep impersonations. I wouldn't have minded if they were supposed to specialise more in the Curry's bit but still they were right in the computer section so I thought it'd be reasonable to ask them seeing as I couldn't see the fans. In the end I found them, suprisingly only about 10p more than amazon which shocked me.
 
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So one of my mates keeps bragging on how system cost him (or rather his parents) €1100 excluding peripherals. And when I jump in, he tells me that I know nothing and that he still has the receipt. Then I walked away.
His specs? An FX4100, an HD7770, 4gigs of ram and a 7200rpm "SSD". Yes, he called his HDD an SSD. :/
 
just remembered another one, here in malta we have a shop which has good prices and deals and whatever but the goddamn desk clerk whatever you call him has like 0% knowledge(sometimes goes full retard) of the thousands of parts that surround him. whenever i go buy something i have to explain every little detail about what i want and its shape and colour and its use and after being shown about fifteen different items he gets the right one. then after i gave up i started printing the items i wanted of their website and just hand it to him.

sometimes i cant take such stupid people especially if theyre working in a computer parts shop and all i wanted was to become a goddamn pc technician :P off to computer engineering now!
 
Personally I have not used PCworld for years. And I mean, years, probably close to five.

Around five years ago I wanted a cheap PC so I got an Advent with a Phenom quad. Wasn't bad but the hdd packed up (they replaced it quickly though).

However, I still had the nightmare experience with PCworld in the back of my mind. In 1999 I wanted an Imac Carbon DV. It had a 400mhz CPU in and a carbon coloured finish.

I went to PCworld and then realised I did not have enough money on me so I almost walked out when one of their sales staff came over. He said that I could buy the regular Imac and return it within a month and pay the extra to swap it out for a Carbon DV model.

I figured "what the hell" and bought the Imac.

Within a week I had enough to change to the DV model so I packed it up and put it in a taxi (costing £15 each way) to go and change it. Got there and their entire story had changed. I ended up being escorted out by the security guards.

When I got home I was absolutely seething so I phoned and asked to speak to the district manager. He pretty much started with the same crap they did in the store but asked me who had sold it to me (their name is on the receipt).

Long story short this salesman did confess and was given the sack, but apparently he did it because they only got paid minimum wage and the commission sales thing made all of their employees say anything they had to just to get a sale.

The best I was offered was the deal I had been promised in the first place but nothing to cover the £30 or the time I wasted packing it all up and taking it back. I didn't bother in the end and just sold it for £30 less than I had paid for it but yeah, PCworld's staff are "know nothing" kids that have commission dangled in front of them like a carrot so it's no surprise they will lie to make sales.
 
There is this dude who claims he knows a lot about PCs, but yet I had to explain to him that Intel CPUs don't fit in AMD MoBos and vice versa and that you can't run Crossfire/SLI (or as he calls it: two videocard set) with different make GPUs (like a GTX 670 and an HD7970).

He also even though that he could connect two pcs together and play all games on ultra on it and such (and no, he doesn't mean clustering, but just connecting them with a double powercord or something).
Yet he always says that he knows more about computers than me and that I'm stupid and that he learnt everything from his dad and of course his dad is right because he has done a course...

Most of my mates know not to argue with me when it comes to tech though, as I always pwn them / make them feel emberassed.
 
Lystfiskern said:
Sorry bro. Doesnt sound like youre the best of friends. Continue that route and youll find yourself pretty alone in the long run.
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What ?

People beeing cocky to a person with knowlegde in that field should expect to be "pwnd". Especially if they know the other person is intrested/knowing in this field.

Are you just leaving your freinds clueless becaus you dont wanna hurt them ?
Truth hurts sometimes, and if that means being corrected when youre talking bullshit you shouldnt moan about that.
 
Lystfiskern said:
Sorry bro. Doesnt sound like youre the best of friends. Continue that route and youll find yourself pretty alone in the long run.
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Believe me, when you hear them bragging about their knowledge, you'll know what I mean :p
I'm not a mean person, but if someone is bragging and talking s#!t that bad, they're just asking to be corrected :p
Worst so far must be the dude talking to everyone that his FX4100 and HD7770 system cost him €1100 excluding peripherals with his "7200rpm 'SSD'". They're also not going to learn anything if I don't correct them.
There was this dude with his own company who didn't know anything about computers and wanted to build his own computer, also for video rendering.
I specced a system out for him, corrected him when needed and answered all of his questions, even if the answers were quite obvious for me. He now has a rig which he can be proud of and meets all of his requirements :D
 
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