My sister is a complete idiot!

Shes in her first year of university and she went out today to buy her laptop, with my help she found a great one (this one:http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetai...470&catid=#) and she just left to go buy it. She calls me up asking me how much I paid for my flash drive, I tell her I got my 8gb on sale for $20 at bestbuy, shes like ok and hangs up. She calls me again saying shes getting the laptop, and futureshop will set up Microsoft office basic, Norton security and "optimize" her system for her for $249.99 before tax before the price of all those programs put in. With all those programs put in she'll be paying $449.99 before tax extra on top of the $730 for the laptop its self.

Hold in your laughter please, it gets better.

I tell her not to go for it, I can easily install every program you'll need and these people are idiots for even suggesting that. Shes argues with me asking me if I know how to "optimize her system" and saying how if they do it there it will be better. I keep telling her not to get it and how it wont be refundable and then she gets mad and says shes buying it and shes smart because they are throwing in the flashdrive for free. She ends up paying all together around $1100 for a $730 dollar laptop. I was mad as hell for like 10 mins but now im pretty apathetic to the situation as they are her student loans and she'll have to pay them back.

Most people are idiots when it comes to computers.
Good thing too, or else tech support wouldn't exist.

But could you optimize her system as well as they could? Could you?

She sounds pretty smart to me.

As said above most people are idiots when it comes to computer, just a couple of weeks ago my friends had a video they made ripped from the cd, converted and edited, they spent 50$ for it, now if they had just asked me I could have done all of THAT for free. In fact getting your computer opened (yes just opened) is around 10$ I think + examining + repair=...... I'm somewhat shocked that simple things like that are expensive.

I've witnessed the "system optimization". The process effectively involves only installation/uninstallation of some programs that came with your computer.

The drivers handle the hardware accelerations, the OS handles how the drivers work. The standardization of the computer industry means there's nothing to optimize unless you want to write new drivers and firmware for your machine, which is something the hardware manufacturers look after and is far beyond the limit of capability of those undertrained employees.

It's another scam, like calling on-board video cards "integrated graphics". Ask those dudes exactly what they are doing next time, or I'm going to open my own "optimize your computer" store and become extensively wealthy.

maybe it's because you're like my brother that thinks he's a computer master but it seems like everytime he makes a new computer, tries to fix the one I have or does something he always ends up making things worse so she might not trust you anymore

but now im pretty apathetic to the situation as they are her student loans and she'll have to pay them back.

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Clearly. Do you regularly create topics about things you don't care about?

This is not really interesting - why are you angry, was it your money?

maybe it's because you're like my brother that thinks he's a computer master but it seems like everytime he makes a new computer, tries to fix the one I have or does something he always ends up making things worse so she might not trust you anymore

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