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How much do you value your time? My laptop is my primary tool. Day in day out. Even at $75/h it pays off in 10 hours.

• josefresco 18y ago
  You must have no expenses, amazing. Do tell.
  • sanj 18y ago
    I'm confused. My laptop is my source of earnings. Every hour I spend fiddling with it is an hour I don't get paid for. What am I missing?
    • notauser 18y ago
      That I like fiddling with my laptop, and so hours spent on it are leisure time (valued at $0) rather than work (valued at $lots). For most people your point is valid, but this is a hacker site, no? (I was a actually a bit disapointed with I installed Ubuntu 8.04 - previously it had been great fun as I had to mess with all sorts of thigns to get it to work perfectly. This time it was all a bit too easy, even wireless and 3D were no-configuration installs. One opportunity to learn new things gone.)
      • hassy 18y ago
        > This time it was all a bit too easy, even wireless and 3D were no-configuration installs. One opportunity to learn new things gone I for one have plenty of other opportunities to learn new things, all a lot more appealing than an "opportunity" like this, which I have no choice but to pursue (if I want to use my wifi network that is). Learning the intricacies of how wifi works/is configured under Linux is of little interest to me -- I'd rather spend my time getting through the stack of books on my desk. Or writing code. Or a hundred other things. I presume this is true for most of us here.
• JeremyChase 18y ago
  Have you ever bought a computer at the apple store? It takes more than an hour just for them to go through their sales pitch while they try to sell you on apple care. God forbid you know what you want, and just want to get out of there with it in hand. The Apple products are fun to use but given the price premium the build quality is questionable, and the machine itself is rather slow. Jer
  • noonespecial 18y ago
    I've been in and out of an Apple store in 10 minutes. Just go in knowing what you want. Tell the salesmen/woman clearly, right up front. If you don't want applecare, list it like a feature. 2 gig ram, dvd-burner, no applecare. Are you sure? Yes. You don't even have to go wait in line at a cash register. The sales guy just checks you out. At circuit city, I got two spiels about extended warranties. One from the sales floor guy. One from the cashier. It also took 25 minutes to "find" the computer I wanted in the back. And this was for a preconfigured toshiba from the display.
    • mrtron 18y ago
      I have been in and out of the Apple store in about 2 minutes buying my last laptop. I said give me that Macbook, and while the guy in front of me took my credit card with his wireless POS device, another guy grabbed me the laptop. I really find the anti-Apple movement interesting. I am not sure how to explain it - but it is more about passion than substance than the pro-Apple movement.
  • thwarted 18y ago
    I once had to tell a guy at the Apple store to cut his spiel short and that I was going to be the easiest sale he had all day, he just needed to get what I wanted from the back and move on to the next customer.