Calling all Computer Geeks
 

Ok here is my dilema..
I have this lap top(Compaq Presario) that I purchased like 2 years ago from Best Buys .. Its Enough to get my homework done and play a little ..lol... But it only has a DVD Rom in the next ffew months I am planning on going back to a Desk Top with features like cd/dvd Burner
But for the mean time I have a few vids I would like to copy from my windows Media Player and Real Player Should I A. Wait to purchase the other computer?? or B get an External CD Burner to attach to my lap top????

I have an external USB CD/R you can borrow 8)

Sounds like problem solved.

Excelente my friend...
When Can we meet to borrow it?

you dont need it today, do you? Its at the office in Sac. I can pick it up the next time I'm down there :D

I would definatly say "dont" buy one. they are not worth the money when the ones in computers are so cheap now and come with everything :D

No no !! It's cool when ever you have time no need to make a special trip... Unless you want to drive your baby for the hell of it .. ;) .. lol
Ohh and I am glad I asked because I was planning on buying one but was going to go into Best Buys to ask for Pro Help..


Thanks again Mike... :)

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haha :lol:

You know, I heard Fry's is even more helpful with that kind of stuff.

There isn't a Fry's in Reno. I think there is one in Sac though.

Plus, Fry's has realistic pricing on so many items. BB & CUSA always wants today's prices for yesterday's technology. I wish we had one here!

Anyone who's actually set foot in a Fry's before knows that I was completely kidding with that statement. :lol:

oh....oops. Can't say I have ever been in one. I went to a Fred's once in Seattle.

In the one time I went to Fry's, I thought the store was cool - you can find every color of UTP and other kinds of wire you could ever hope for, pink, green, purple, silver. If I ever needed to wire my bathroom for something, I'd know right where to go. :)

The problem with Austin's joke, is that none of you remember when there was *one* Fry's and it was a giant, dank, dirty, warehouse in Fremont. (edit: I think there were actually 2 Fry's back then... both were black-holes of shipping horror.)

*Nothing* was brand name. Everything was in brown boxes, in disorganized racks. Customer service was non-existant, let alone "expert". The running joke was that all the people that worked there were too busy talking to their baby's momma on their cell phone to help you with anything.

You had to be a true geek to be able to navigate the store and come out with what you were looking for... however, if you knew exactly what you needed you could usuall yfind it and get it for a raging good price.

Here's an example of the jokes that used to fly back in the mid-90's:

http://braith.best.vwh.net/frys.htm

I went to that Fry's once. It's pretty cool. You can buy stuff, and no one bothers you or trys to upsell you.

Very funny. I live at the YMCA. ha.

Point being, if you say "I'm here for that XP1800/ECS $60 combo", they'll know you're talking about a CPU/MB package on sale instead of walking you all the way into Home Theater, thrusting an audio cable splitter into your hands, and yelling back over their shoulder "anything else you need just come see me".

Don't bash Fry's too hard, they're one of our customers... 8) But they still kinda suck.

Yea, just don't ask them to fix your computer.

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lol. yea the SRIC boards have died down! :(

I thought they had a frys in Nevada?

maybe in Vegas, but not up here.

Vegas has one, and its very... Vegas. Shiny, lots of lights flashing. Not like a real Fry's, its like a SuperFry's or something.

ohh that's right Vegas!

How far is Elko from Reno?

Elko? Like 4 hours. Why are you interested in Elko?

I was reading about that town in the National Geographic mag. Seems like a rough town. I hear you can never leave once you move in.

My friends went to a stripclub in Elko, while they were visiting there parents and saw a 300+ lb'er ride the pole. That is some rough shit.

I used to go trucking out there...yeah, it's rough, kind of beat down, but its okay.

Are you still driving?

No, No more Supertrucker...Howver, Eric still goes out there all the time...On the train.

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Excternal USB 52x32x52 CDRWs are $24 on pricewatch including shipping.

Also what OS are you on? Only XP I beleive has built in software to burn CDs.
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The original Fry's was actually in Sunnyvale. Fry's History.

Yes, it was kind of a pit, but the running joke was that they had everything from Chips to Chips, those being computer and potato respecively. You'd go in for the former, and could nosh in the checkout line on all sorts of bad deep fried snack foods and sodas and pay for the empty bags and the computer stuff at checkout.

What is out there?
What did this town do to make NG?

Aren't you the one that "read the article"?

Dude, you read the article... you tell us. :lol:

Seriously, theres a lot of mines surrounding the area, some mountains, and I80, thats about it. Lots of Whore houses.

Thanks Dean, we've completely derailed this thread...

I thought the first Fry's was in San Jose, but I think I'm thinking of the Good Guys on AlumRock...

Yea but it was sketchy.It was describing the history of the city and how it is a rough place where the old and new generations clash. Does that sum it up??
I mean is it really that rought that everyone packs guns??

OK, how did a geek thread turn into a Nevada geography/history lesson?

Moderators, get control. Oh wait, it is one of the moderators that is contributing to the diversion... :lol: :lol:

I went slightly back on topic re: fry's location right? haha...It's in off topic, where the hell else is it supposed to go? :lol:

1. Move cursor to "New Thread Button"
2. Click button
3. Next to Subject: type "Elko, Where F is it?"
4. Shoot self!
5. Repeat :lol:

I think its 5. Rinse and Repeat :lol:

nobody likes a dirty monitor :wink:

ok best buy good frys bad. :p

I'm the only one on. :(

Oh, don't even get me started on how much ass Best Buy sucks. It sucks so much that employee's of Best Buy also suck.

Elko has a rep from like 100 years ago. Nowadays they have subdivisions, a Wal-mart and fly in 737's. They're trying to bill themselves as a tourist destination because the big mining boom is over for now. It's actually a pretty tame place for Nevada.

When I was a fifteen-year-old kid in Yerington (this little farm/ranch town about 1.5 hrs from Reno), somebody made the mistake of telling me that it was perfectly legal to carry, as long as it was open instead of concealed. So, I started wearing my .45 Colt everywhere. It makes for a good story now, I guess, and it was definately a better fashion statement than bell-bottoms or something.

That was back when I was driving a '73 Land Rover, and didn't know what a Subaru was.

So what would you rather have bug you at the store. A fry's employee or a Best buy employee?

I don't believe there is such a thing as a "Fry's Employee"

At least Fry's Employees know what they are lucid and coherent. And they don't start telling you stories about when Zombies attacked the store the other night.

wait what?? Zombies?? Did the Zombies have rage?

Ask Nick to tell you the zombie story in person sometime :)