I have mentioned through this blog that people love cheap. I have noticed that society likes quality and speed of computers to a point. When a low price tag is thrown in front of them, they don't care what the thing is they will just take it. If someone through a bag of dirt in their cart, they don't care they will ask how much is it.
I have noticed this since I work in this type of business. On black Friday (the Friday after Thanksgiving) many people lined up at the doors waiting for those craptastic deals on computers. While outside I noticed this. The first person in line wanted the computers I was selling, she already had tickets for three other computers, so now she had five tickets total for these computers.
I do understand these computers that were door busters are supposed to be cheap, but they are not the computers that will meet their needs. The computers are near the bottom of the totem pole. Some computers have the base operating system which would be Vista Home Basic. I totally recommend Vista Home Premium at least. This system will run better. With Home Basic these will be equipped with 512MB of RAM, which is just enough for this OS to operate but not well. The Home Premium computers will have 1024MB or 1GB of RAM which will again be just enough. The processor will also make the difference on how the computer will perform.
Yet, people don't ask questions on that day, they don't care they just see that sticker price and run with it. (On to the next store they say). So when the recipients receive the gift under that Christmas tree, they will have to take grandma's gift card back to the store to have it beefed up or the computer changed out to meet their needs.
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That is so true. My mom wanted one of those "door busters" a couple of years ago. I spent about 2 hours explaining to her why it would be cheaper to get the right computer than the sale one. I finally won the debate when I refused to wait outside. There was no way she was going to do it. Mom - zero, Daughter - one!
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