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Technology Stocks : COMS & the Ghost of USRX w/ other STUFF -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scrapps who wrote (9497)	11/20/1997 10:05:00 AM
From: Jeffery E. Forrest	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

You got it exactly inre filling up all the available banks. I hadn't really thought it through completely when I bought the two 16MB's. When I got home and plugged 'em in I realized that to do further upgrades would require yanking the original 8MB's and using them for jewelry or something. That's why I was thinking about just returning the 2 16MB's NOW and replacing them with 2 32MB's. They're so dang cheap it seems to make good sense. isn't this the AST PC you bought last year? Actually it's an Acer and Acer has been GREAT. They replaced the modem, CD-Rom, gave me some software, etc. It was Best Buy that gave me the screw job. (They told me there was absolutely nothing wrong with the modem or the CD-rom that Acer ultimately replaced) At first I thought they had lied to me about specs and configurations, but I've come to the conclusion that it was simply stupidity. I must admit to some operator error too. This was my first Windows based machine and I had a few problems switching over. It's REAL hard getting used to Windows after you've been spoiled by the Apple OS.<G> Acer turned out to be pretty good though. Bent over backwards to help me. I went through hell at first, but things have been fine since everything finally got straightened out. The only gripe I have is the time it takes to get 'em on the phone, but I guess this is a common problem which the box makers. From what I can see, even the good ones are slow. BEST BUY SUCKS though!!! You wouldn't believe the comedy I went through to get the RAM the other evening. Unbeleivable idiots. I'm real glad I got some help from the thread before I went in because I KNOW I would have had to go back ONCE and probably TWICE before they got it right. The first salesperson I spoke to tried to give me the wrong stuff and was VERY adamant that she was right and I was wrong about my needs. I finally got the tech guy who set things straight. If I hadn't done a little homework I would have just taken what she gave me. (It wouldn't have worked)