Re: exchanging computer at store advice neede

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That's around $922 in US dollars, a bit more than you'd spend here.

In any case, spending that much money, you'd expect the darn thing to work
consistently.

Make a big noise at Staple's if they don't give you any satisfaction.

Good Luck.


MD





"Ninip" wrote:

> The computer cost me $1100.00 Canadian and that is without a monitor, for I
> had a LCD monitor already. Also it did not come with speakers. I don't
> think that this would be considered a cheap computer.
>
> WINXP Home with Serivce Pk 2
> HP Pavillion a1030n
> 512 MB ram
> 200 GB Hard drive
> Pentium 4
> DVD Rom
> CD writer
> 3 GHz
>
> Thanks
> "Miss Perspicacia Tick" <test@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:ZxZQe.6256$Y85.5228@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > MadDog wrote:
> >
> > > For the record, why did you buy a computer from Staples ?? That's
> > > the last place I'd buy a computer.
> >
> >
> > There's only one reason I can think of - it was one of their Deals of the
> > Week. We have Staples over here too and the last time I saw one of their
> ads
> > in the national press they were selling 3GHz HPs for something silly like
> > £399. But you're right, it never pays to purchase a cheap system from a
> big
> > chain store. Buying from an independent might cost you more initially but
> > you'll be quids-in in the long run - and you'll have saved yourself a
> > helluva lot of grief.
> >
> > I tell you what else, I bet that system has barely enough RAM to run XP.
> > Stores like Staples sell systems on processor power alone - you read the
> > small print and you'll find it has 256 or even 128MB RAM.
> >
> > For the record, there are utilities that will allow read-only access to an
> > NTFS drive from a FAT32 based OS. I used one successfully some while ago,
> > though I forget the name (Googling will bear fruit, I'm sure).
> >
> > It's also worth bearing in mind (though I doubt this will help the OP)
> that
> > file systems are irrelevant when accessing a disk over a network.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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