I queued up to get a Galaxy Nexus on launch day last November. It was worth getting into town early as I got £250 of goodies from Google.
Yeah and I got a phone that didn't work!
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Yeah and I got a phone that didn't work!
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I bet they members on this forum.......
how can you get the worlds worst nerds in one shot
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It appears you wasted your time at school....
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Which is exactly the same way I think about my SGS1 and the SGS3
What's so nerdy about that? I don't understand why people conceive building your own PC as nerdy, I've built lego sets that were more difficult to build than building a PC.
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Yes, but its iphone queue day.
I'm sure when something else on the same lines of another iphone comes out, there'll be the same thing for them too.
I'll quite happily admit I queued for my iPhone 4 on launch day with a friend for the "experience" factor. Grabbed a Starbucks coffee and muffin and soaked up the 'excitement'. It was quite boring and I wanted to grab my iPhone and go after 4 hours of queueing. . I'm still glad I done it, for the (lack of) experience!
. I'm still glad I done it, for the (lack of) experience!
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Yeah, I'm mean everybody is building their own PC nowadays. Gone is the time when t was purely something hobbyists did...
Oh hang on, it isn't. It's nerdy.
It really isn't. Tell me what exactly is nerdy about it? Just because people don't know how simple it is and so buy a pre-built PC doesn't make it nerdy.
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Well if knowing about ATX, Mini-ATX et al, the associated power supplies, PCI-E and the speed of the RAM in both your GPU and motherboard isn't nerdy then I don't know what is.
Sure if given the components putting them together is fairly easy and most peope could be talked through doing it but that's only part of building a PC. You have to know what is going in there. So your LEGO analogy is flawed.
Your non-nerd cares for none of this. That's why they don't put their own computers together. Same as your average car owner doesn't care what kind of fuel-injectors they have or the type of suspension. All they want is to drive from A to B. their computer is the same; all they want is to email and run Word for example.
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Was in a big computer store and a lady returning a printer saying it won't print even after a new ink cartridge.
Turns out she bought the wrong one.
There are people out there won't can't even match up the right reference for ink, on the scale of nerdy, where does knowing the different sockets, RAM type, ram speed, PSU wattage, SATA, SSD, installing and configuring windows rate?
No, that's not nerdy at all.
Am I nerdy for building a Caterham 7 type kit car then?
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Basic computer skills is know how to type a letter, go online and send an email, not how to make one from scratch.
It's like there is a difference from know how to drive and knowing how to put a car together.