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RE: I got my laptop but...
In my experience, if the specs are really good for the price, it means they're skimping on the other parts.

Computer shops like PC World do this all the time, they have laptops with amazing features like a huge hard drive, a massive screen, a fast processor and loads of RAM. For a really low price.

But the only reason they can get it so cheap is because they know that most of the people who buy laptops from them aren't going to do much research, and they aren't going to notice that everything else is crap.

The RAM will be slow, the build quality will be really poor, the screen will have bad specs (contrast ratio, colour depth etc..), and all the parts will be really bad, like the wireless adapter.

But because people like to be able to easily "score" things for comparison, they ignore this stuff.

Cameras are probably the best example, after about 3 megapixels, for most people, any difference will be lost, yet people by cameras soley based on how many megapixels they have.
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I got my laptop but... - by Nathan on 01-12-2008 at 01:40 PM
RE: I got my laptop but... - by Thor on 01-12-2008 at 02:08 PM
RE: I got my laptop but... - by Nathan on 01-12-2008 at 02:10 PM
RE: I got my laptop but... - by SikStyles on 01-12-2008 at 02:19 PM
RE: I got my laptop but... - by Nathan on 01-12-2008 at 02:21 PM
RE: I got my laptop but... - by saralk on 01-12-2008 at 02:31 PM
RE: I got my laptop but... - by absorbation on 01-12-2008 at 02:33 PM
RE: I got my laptop but... - by Nathan on 01-12-2008 at 02:35 PM
RE: I got my laptop but... - by aNILEator on 01-12-2008 at 03:43 PM
RE: I got my laptop but... - by Voldemort on 01-12-2008 at 05:54 PM
RE: I got my laptop but... - by kao on 01-12-2008 at 06:42 PM
RE: I got my laptop but... - by Nathan on 01-12-2008 at 07:04 PM
RE: I got my laptop but... - by Dane on 01-12-2008 at 09:10 PM
RE: I got my laptop but... - by Nathan on 01-12-2008 at 09:28 PM
RE: I got my laptop but... - by Nagamasa on 01-12-2008 at 09:44 PM
RE: I got my laptop but... - by aNILEator on 01-13-2008 at 01:43 AM
RE: I got my laptop but... - by prashker on 01-13-2008 at 01:44 AM
RE: I got my laptop but... - by segosa on 01-13-2008 at 03:29 AM
RE: I got my laptop but... - by Nathan on 01-13-2008 at 10:14 AM
RE: I got my laptop but... - by kezz on 01-14-2008 at 02:16 AM
RE: I got my laptop but... - by aNILEator on 01-14-2008 at 07:48 AM
RE: I got my laptop but... - by kezz on 01-14-2008 at 09:33 AM
RE: I got my laptop but... - by aNILEator on 01-14-2008 at 10:23 AM
RE: I got my laptop but... - by kezz on 01-14-2008 at 10:26 AM
RE: I got my laptop but... - by aNILEator on 01-14-2008 at 10:41 AM
RE: I got my laptop but... - by kezz on 01-15-2008 at 04:41 AM
RE: I got my laptop but... - by Nathan on 01-15-2008 at 08:31 AM


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