As some people may know from my series of confused posts, I am buying a computer. In fact, I just did. Or at least, I thought I did. What I actually bought was a Ferrari with a butane lighter instead of a starter. The computer itself is extremely powerful for the money. It simply doesn’t have the ability to back up its claims with juice.
Basically, it has a piss-poor power supply. Now, I wouldn’t really care. I considered that I might have to put a new one in. The pain came form the fact that Dell had no info on the items is sold Best Buy, not even much printed on the damn box. I eventually had to open up the case to find out what the power requirements were.
Now, following this I decided I would be quite content to run the new video card with low power. I’m good with it. Graphics aren’t that important - I just needed to get the thing running so I can actually use 3D. But no. No no no.
They didn’t actually include any cables to plug in the damn graphics card. Yes, there are other things which use PCIx slots. But not bloody many. In fact, I can’t actually think of any. At all. The only possible use for a PCIx slot is for a damn graphics card. A card you can’t plug in because there no cable for. There is not a 4-pin molex plug. There is not a 6-pin molex plug.
So, I go get a more powerful power supply. But wait! Dell doens’t like people actually using their computers. That would have been too easy. Fortunately, one of their engineers had a cunning plan to stop any such fun. They simply cut the case in such a way as to prevent anyone from putting in a useful power supply, and then added a couple metal tabs for good measure.
Right now, the only way I even imagine this thing being useful is to remove the entire computer assembly from the case and pull out a teeny-tiny power saw. And maybe a blowtorch.
However, I’m not going to let Best Buy* off the hook here either. They pretty much have no information on anything. The only reason trained monkeys can’t do their jobs better is that they can’t yet speak English. Although the monkeys would probably treat customers beter and not fling as much poo. The only efficient employee around is the guy who sits at the front and treats everyone like thieves.
And believe me, if I could have found another supplier anywhere in the county, or the next counties over, or even on this side of the damn State, I would not have bought at Best Buy. My only other option was to have a crappy, overpriced computer bought online. This way, I can at least still complain to the manager of Best Buy tommorow and watch with glee as they take the stuff back.
They are simply the only game left in town, and they don’t even operate in half the city. It’s not so much that BB is competent but that all the competition was so absofuckinglutely incompetent that BB is left standing. I suppose in the land of the blind and deaf people with no noses or tongues and a rare all-body eczema and only two fingers per hand… the guy with all that except still with one cataractic eye is king.
Now, since this is the Pit, probably forty people will pop up informing me that it’s blatantly obvious that you need a metalurgist and laser-cutter these days, or that al l the cool kids know you develop X-ray vision with internal rulers for looking at parts hidden inside the case inside the box and comparing them to other, possible hardware you might need which is also inside a case inside a box. )r some similar nonsense.
Please, go enjoy your fun somewhere else. I’m too tired and too torqued off.
