Are all PC World employees...

newfoundglory

... scared of Macs? :rotfl:

Went to buy some blank DVDs today... but I can't help notice that the sales people seem to throw themselves at you when you are looking at PCs; but don't seem to keen if you are playing with the Macs :rolleyes:

I expected to have the chance to play with 10.4 today; but clearly no one in the store could actually be bothered to just slip a Tiger DVD in the display models and upgrade them from Panther! :mad:

I think the store was obviously more concerned people would try and nick it, as the OS X boxes on display were empty.

(But for those wanting to upgrade... you will find some great Tiger bargains over at Amazon.co.uk )

Realist

PC World employees are as thick as a short plank, well some of them anyway

Nelly.t

I could work in pc world if I was just selling new stuff and advising people on the best purchase for the money.

I couldnt work in the returns section, I pass it and the looks on peoples faces as they wait in a long queue and get redder and redder in the face holding a dead box of wires.
When the customer says "it doesent work no more" I just cant beleive thats the full story. All my friends who !!!!!! up their own comps are completely clueless and have just found the control panels by mistake, spend an hour in there and it wont restart. Or they inadvertantly right click on my computer and within 2 mins have wiped 90% of their hdd contents.

PC World employees have a lot of stress that is not their fault. They get paid badly so where is the incentive to improve the places?

God I am off on one arent I, better go make a strong coffee.

Nelly

(Oh yeh, the reason I replied, If you want to go look at macs then try John Lewis, they seem to have a mac savvy guy in every store.)

blinky

PC World staff are useless. Normally when you want to speak to one there's none to be found.

I went in near the end of last year to try and get some specs on their TFT's after my monitor died. I asked them about the response times and they could only answer with the refresh rate, even after I explained what the response time is.

Got a nasty habit of not labelling prices on stock and putting stock in the wrong place so you don't know what the correct price is.

I would agree with the above if you really want a Mac or need one then go to John Lewis. In general the running costs of a Mac are higher than a PC.

stuartw101

LOL, very funny

T4i

hehehe...

I give PC World a comedy value of 10 when asking techincal questions.

Go in and ask;

"Whats the difference between 32 and 64 bit chips"

Post back the answer.

I got told "64 is newer" LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL It could of been worse though, I was waiting for him to say "we are not a chippy"

sarahlouise210

If I want to know something about a prduct in PC world I normally pop next door,,ask currys and then pop back to PC world! Works for me! As for saying they are badly paid well yes.. this may be the case but they have got through the interview where (presumably) they were asked if they know anything about computers!! A lot of catering staff are poorly paid but you expect them to know how to cook!

Getafix

In general the running costs of a Mac are higher than a PC.

In what way?

Virus' - No problem
Trojan Horses - No problem
Operating System - Cheaper than XP
Hardware - You get everything you'll need in the initial package (extra RAM best obtained from crucial)
Software - Masses of open source sourceware on top of comercial software

If more people were to use mac's the Techie forum would only be half as active methinks.

patflanel

blinky wrote:

In general the running costs of a Mac are higher than a PC.

:rotfl:

I think that if you do even a little research that you will find exactly the opposite. You might have an initial higher cost when buying a Mac but when depreciation, ease of use, productivity, longevity, reliablility are taken into account, Macintosh wins hands down. Why do creative types use them? Because they can rely on them just working, out of the box, no hassle, no virus (yet!), no software or hardware conflicts, they just work.

Most PC users who have never used a mac or complain "I don't have time to learn a new system" have blinkered views. I have used a mac for years and when using OS X I have never had a OS crash (crosses fingers), unlike my PC owning friends whose machines crash with unnerving regularity and are forever running scandisk, Norton, AV software etc. (there is a couple of hours works each week you cannot be productive, mind you it does give you a chance for your coffee to cool).

So please don't make such general statements. You buy what you want to use. I want to use my computer when I switch it on not after do all the maintainence, so I buy a mac.
:beer:

blinky

It's not a general statement, it's experience as I have previously been responsible for MAc's and PC's. We found that the software cost more (smaller quantities shifted = higher margins needed). As for being immune to viruses this is not true, both older MacOS and the newer Unix based OSes are still liable to virus and trojan attack, it's just not as prevalent as PC's ones, simply because there's less systems to target.

I haven't used OS X or higher but my experience with OS 7/8 was that the alleged reliabilty of the OS was a fallicy (I've seen OS 8.5 completely destroy a database which Norton couldn't recover after a OS crash). They were significiantly less stable than Windows 95 even on clean installs, and lets face it 95 wasn't the most stable operating system. In theory Mac OSes should be more stable due to the smaller range of hardware which they need to support.

I hope you're experiences of Macintoshes are positive and remain so.

patflanel

Let's not get into an argument of "mine's is better than yours".
We buy what we buy based on costs and to a very large extent, what advice we are given. As the vast majority of users have windows and given the HUGE advertising budgets of M****s**t most people wanting a computer end up with a PC box with all it's pitfalls. A little research and a leap of faith and they would not be dissapointed. After all we don't all drive the same cars......