One of the sites I look after has a couple of HP’s Laserjet 1320 printers. Very nifty, but only 16 MB of memory. So memory upgrades are in order.
For a 128 MB stick, HP want £579.
For the same 128 MB stick, Crucial want £30.
£579 or £30. Come off it, HP, you cannot be serious.
HP, if you simply don’t want the business, why not simply subcontract it to Crucial or whoever instead of making yourseves look like greedy asses?
Typical, really. I used to work for a Canon dealer, and we had hard drive upgrades for laser faxes (useful if you receive high volume and are out of toner, etc) which came standard with 2mb of RAM.
They were standard IDE hard-drives. 20MB (At a time when 80mb hard drives were pretty much bottom-end.)
The price? Over $300. We couldn’t install third-party HD’s for our customers without losing our “Authorized Dealer” status – but sure as shit all the ones we used in house had several times more storage space on 'em, had for a fraction of what Canon would charge us for their “official” hard drive upgrade hardware.
And of course, it never said “hard disk” anywhere in the literature – just “20MB memory upgrade.”
I like Canon products, but that sort of thing is just scummy.
“You’re taking the piss” that’s an odd expression. I’m assuming it’s Brit-speak for… what? Are they taking a piss (like, on your head maybe?)? Are they taking your prized piss? Or perhaps it’s like “cake” as in “you take the cake” I don’t want anyone taking my cake, for fuck sake I sure don’t care if they take the piss.
“Kidding,” in this context.
It usually denotes mockery or ridicule, though: “Nigel went on at length, taking the piss out of his American guest for his peculiar interest in his aunt’s fanny.”
… especially as she was having a fag at the time.