The Obligatory Funny/Ridiculous Ebay Listings Thread

Theophany said:
If the cores were duelling it would be a slower speed, but because they're working together you get the full 6.8Ghz.

Also, you need to be careful, because it's Windows so it gets viruses, unlike Macs.

I start work at PC World next week.
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Check your drink mate, think you must have been spiked saying such things :eek:
 
Caged said:
Roll up, roll up, pay actual money for a 2007 PC.
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A very heavily used 2007 PC, too. That HDD must have been in there for years - when was the last time you could buy a standard speed 80GB HDD?

A gaming PC? Well, I suppose you could play Candy Crush on it.

It's only £150 and it is a functioning PC, but it's blatantly misrepresented and the only thing of any value is the Windows 7 licence. If it actually has a licence.


The most ridiculous listing I've seen recently was a porn star offering sexual favours for a Lego model. That's probably not on Ebay, though.
 
For a lot of tasks it is effectively double the clock speed. So called embarrassingly parallel tasks such as video enoding gain a linear increase in performance for every core added.
 
R.O.S.S.I said:
I remember when I used to work at Currys on Customer Services and heard the sales guys run spiel off like this all the time. Cringeworthy!
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I remember a similar situation in a local electronics shop. The salesmen was telling a customer the differences between two laptops...."well this laptop has 2GB whereas this one has 6GB so its three times faster".....I facepalmed so hard.
 
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