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The thing that killed me is that I was debating between a Blackjack (which runs Windows Mobile) and the Blackberry, and the kid tried to tell me that "nothing running Windows will work with a Mac" and refused to believe me when I told him I'd been happily syncing my 8125 via Missing Sync with no problem. SMACK!
Little moron! It drives me crazy when people tell me things that are incorrect in stores that I can confirm with a five-second google search.
Glad you could get your phone partially working though, Kristin.
I remind myself that salespeople in electronics stored don't earn all that much money. If they actually knew what they were talking about, they could probably get much higher paying employment elsewhere.
These guys make a fair amount of money on commission. Regardless, no excuse for giving customers misnformation. (I feel justified saying this, having worked my share of minimum wage retail jobs.)
These guys make a fair amount of money on commission.
Oh yeah. When they put a huge amount of effort into pushing one product over a similar one - I figure that currently their commissions must be higher for that product.
IORandomLookBackN, on March 22, 1993, the first Pentium chip was shipped.
Damn, I remember reading about the Pentium a year / 18 months before they came out. I was amazed that the Pentium would run at 60mhz! With higher speeds to come!
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IORandomLookBackN, on March 22, 1993, the first Pentium chip was shipped.
Ah, the good old days. The hopes! The dreams! The bizarre floating-point errors!
The bizarre floating-point errors!
Oooh. I\'d forgotten about that one. Ahh.... good times...
I'm about to order a Harmony. I hope it works on my Mac because my roommate's computer is the slowest Windows computer in the universe (I believe he paid $500 for it almost 3 years ago).
ETA: Hmm. The 670 is $100. The 880 is apparently only $150 on Amazon right now. Should I pay $50 for pretty colors? Very tempting!
I ordered the 880! Not so much for the colors as for the greater number of activity keys.
I went for the 880 too. Woot. Now I just need to figure out how to actually make sure it gets delivered to me... living in a non-doorman apartment is a big PITA.
I was very tempted to go browse amongst the Harmony remotes when I found myself near a store that is said to carry them, but I am being all rational and holding off on getting a fancy remote until after I replace my TV. My 10 year old Symphonic keeps right on working fine, except that it refuses to take IR instruction of any kind. Or show things in high definition, of course.
