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Title: PS3 or $8k CPU? Post by: MrHat on November 17, 2006, 05:16:52 AM Er, DUH!
PC Gamer on a quest to convert the unwashed masses to PC, by giving away a monster of a computer for Falcon Northwest. (http://www.pcgamer.com/archives/2006/11/111706_-_one_le.html) Ya, I would've cut my band off too. I would cut my pinky off. Title: Re: PS3 or $8k CPU? Post by: NiX on November 17, 2006, 02:45:29 PM Seriously, I'm not surprised so many people stepped out of line for that.
Title: Re: PS3 or $8k CPU? Post by: geldonyetich on November 17, 2006, 02:48:05 PM Should have made him sign soemthing to make sure he doesn't eBay it for PS3 money.
Title: Re: PS3 or $8k CPU? Post by: schild on November 17, 2006, 03:19:32 PM I would've dumped that machine [on ebay] double time. The cost of a computer drops 80% once you drive it off a lot.
Also, ugggggggggggly. Green flames? What is this 1987? Where's my hyper color shirt? Title: Re: PS3 or $8k CPU? Post by: SurfD on November 17, 2006, 04:06:10 PM Should have made him sign soemthing to make sure he doesn't eBay it for PS3 money. Im not 100% sure, but the article seemed to indicate that whoever won had to sign a contract saying that they were essentially winning that PC on the condition that they never purchase a PS3, ever. One of the pics down near the end has the discriptor saying it is of him signing the contract, and them mentioning they will be checking in on him periodicly over the next few YEARS to make sure he honours it.Im with Schild though. I would have dumped that thing on ebay for as much as i could get, and used the money to purchase a slightly inferior, but probably just as usefull gameing rig, and used the difference to pick up a PS3 later on down the road. Title: Re: PS3 or $8k CPU? Post by: Krakrok on November 17, 2006, 04:39:38 PM That was a pretty shitty monitor for an $8k PC. Title: Re: PS3 or $8k CPU? Post by: schild on November 17, 2006, 06:59:45 PM By posting this from my PS3, I have now done what that 8k machine would be doing 90% of the time.
Title: Re: PS3 or $8k CPU? Post by: Trippy on November 17, 2006, 09:35:37 PM By posting this from my PS3, I have now done what that 8k machine would be doing 90% of the time. Surfing for porn?Title: Re: PS3 or $8k CPU? Post by: schild on November 17, 2006, 11:55:28 PM Well, what else could I have meant?
Title: Re: PS3 or $8k CPU? Post by: StGabe on November 18, 2006, 12:53:13 AM *reads contract*
The next day: "What's that honey? You bought yourself a PS3 for Christmas?" See, wives are good for something. |