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10 Oct 2024 23:19:55 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Suggestions on case  
From: Doctor John
Date: 18 Mar 2008 17:32:07
Message: <47e042e7$1@news.povray.org>
Orchid XP v7 wrote:
> Doctor John wrote:
> 
>> YoYo Tech, 30 Windmill St, W1
>> http://www.yoyotech.co.uk/officehour.php?osCsid=99ccb4cf89e2fc121bd3f6f7619552c2
>>
> 
> Looks nice.
> 
Gets crowded at weekends but otherwise not bad and most of the staff
know what they're talking about.

>> Some of the larger Maplins,
> 
> That's where all my cases so far have come from. Nice people, but their
> case range extends to, like, 4 models. (Much of their stuff is a bit
> like that though. If you want, say, a GeForce 6200, they can sell you
> one. If you want an 8-series... forget it.)
> 
True

>> ... and if you ask nicely PC World (But
>> their selection is abysmal)
> 
> Here's what happened the last time I tried at PC World:
> 
> Hi, is this case steel or aluminium?
> Uuuuuhhhh... I donna mate...
> ....         ...well can you find out please?
> Oooohhh, ooookaaaaayy...
> 
> He walked off and started sulkily prodding buttons on his PC until
> eventually [about 45 minutes] I got bored and left the store. Clearly
> had no intension of doing anything remotely useful. [That would involve
> him getting off his fat **** and doing some actual WORK.]
>
Ah, yes. He and his clones are being used by PCW since they require
minimal maintenance and they don't actually give out false information.
The other 5% of the staff work at Head Office (... a beach hut in the
Sechelles afaik :-D )

John

-- 
I will be brief but not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the
world's shortest speech. He said, "I will be so brief I am already
finished," then he sat down.


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