computer pain

Let me say right now, don't ever, ever buy a computer from cyberpowerpc.com. Ever.

I bought a new machine from them about a year ago, it was in a gorgeous case, customized to hell and back, neon blue and deadly. It arrives and doesn't recognize its hard drives. I look inside, and they'd used cheap power cables that fall out when you blow on them. Next, the machine boots, and the RAM was bad. I paid to ship it back to them, they sent me new RAM, it worked fine.

A few months later, the hard drive goes bad. The master hard drive, with all my shit on it. I lose a bunch of data, pay to mail the hard drive back, they mail me a new one.

Last week, the onboard RAID controller went bad. I've never in my entire life seen such a poorly made, expensive machine with cheap shitty parts. Cyberpowerpc is a horrible company who should burn in the lowest reaches of hell.

So today I said fuck it. I went to Dell, checked out their outlet, and I bought a freaking dual core 3 ghz system for $450, I shit you not. Free shipping. That's roughly 1/4 the price of my crappy cyberpower system. I've had two Dells since college, and I've never had a SINGLE problem with them, I don't know why I ever left. But I won't be leaving again.

I highly recommend checking out the Dell outlet if you're looking for a machine, they've got a bunch of returned machines where people ordered something nice, and shipped it back. Hence I got a $1k machine for $450. Plus their machines aren't shit. You can browse through all the returned systems and find something you like. They had some machines for like $300.

Anyway, yeah. Buy from Dell. It's cheap and works. I can't wait for my system to get here. Especially since I have no goddamn desktop to work on. Thank god I bought that terabyte RAID.