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#6
"Blandine Alexander, 33, said one woman standing in front of her was so desperate to retain her place in line that she urinated on herself."

That could be a new ad campaign for the next sale. "Savings so huge, you can afford to buy yourself a new pair of pants!"

That's rediculous. A mob scene to get their hands on a 4 year old out of date piece of fruit.
 
#11
More than 1,000 people turned out at the Richmond International Raceway in hopes of getting their hands on one of the 4-year-old Apple iBooks, which retail for between $999 and $1,299.
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4 Year old computers? Well... Hmm... What would you do with that!?

If you want to hook up your 28.8kb internet and browse some text-only websites. I guess it would work...
 
#13
KeithBMI said:
4 Year old computers? Well... Hmm... What would you do with that!?
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Plenty...just because the industry makes us all think we need the newest machine, a 4 year old iBook is still a powerful machine and for $50 a no-brainer.

I use a 10+ year old Mac in my MIDI setup. That replaced a 20+ year old Atari ST I finally retired this year.

I refuse to accept the idea that I should pay another $1000+ every 4-5 years for a new computer. BTW I've worked in the computer industry as a design engineer for 25 years.
 
#14
"...Latoya Jones, 19, who lost one of her flip-flops in the ordeal and later limped around on the sizzling blacktop with one foot bare."

there's something really sad about shopping for a computer while walking around in only one flip-flop. mayhap i will try that next time i shop for electronics.

(loosly quoted from a friend's response elsewhere, because I think it's funny)

Personally, I'm with Brian on this one. I only bought a newer machine after 10 years simply because it would have cost about as much to upgrade my old computer (ram, hd, processor & OS) to run the recording rig I recently bought. Otherwise, if you're just using a computer as a glorified mailbox / net-box, why bother upgrading?

The mad panic side of this story just simply doesn't surprise me. Funny how a board of educators couldn't have come up with the idea of doing a bulk "buy it now" type auction on Ebay and given the money to charity or reinvested it back in the school system. They certainly didn't do the community that much of a service. I hear some people caught wind of this sale on line, and FLEW IN and were first in line.
 
#15
If you couldn't afford a new computer, someone offered you one for $50, even 4 years old, and you were terrified your kid twouldn't be able to compete with all the kids who's parents could affort computers, yeah, I think some serious interest is to be expected.

I'm using a 1999 Dell laptop to compose this message, by the way. Admittedly, a few minor mods here and there to keep it current. 7200 rpm 60GB hard drive, 512Mb memory, upgraded PII 300Mhz processor to PIII 800/650 speedstep, DVD +/- RW/CD-RW burner, wireless networking PCMCIA card.

I'm installing w98 on an old 1997 laptop I had laying around to give my neice to go to school. Put a network card on that sucker and its plenty fast to cruise the internet, do email, MS word, etc. I'm pretty amazed, actually, it's as fast as my 2.4 Ghz XP desktop for cruising the internet. You only need the latest and greatest high horsepower machines for gaming, not normal everyday stuff or schoolwork.

Randy
 
#18
steveksux said:
If you couldn't afford a new computer, someone offered you one for $50, even 4 years old, and you were terrified your kid twouldn't be able to compete with all the kids who's parents could affort computers, yeah, I think some serious interest is to be expected.
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Sure, but I wouldn't beat people with a chair to make sure I got one.
What kind of example would that set for my kids?

Edit: Lol-Davidoc. exactly, that is very douchey behavior.
 
#19
burnt said:
Sure, but I wouldn't beat people with a chair to make sure I got one.
What kind of example would that set for my kids?
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Well, you'd only probably have to hit ONE person with a chair, presumably the others would stop trying to take cuts after that.... :D

But I was only addressing the "why would anyone be so interested" aspect, not justifying the mob behavior. They should have known this would cause massive interest but the
out of control part would be harder to anticipate.

Hard to blame the people putting it on too awfully much though, I mean the whole point of posting the article is its shocking, therefore unexpected, and we're surprised to hear something like this happened. So why should the people putting it on have expected any differently, could have gotten out of hand pretty quickly.

As for me, I always expect the worst in people, and I'm rarely disappointed. But this would have probably taken me by surprise too.

Randy
 

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