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Is it really bad hardware or is it just a bad user

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June 6, 2013 4:25:36 PM

Are PC's really that bad that they don't work to the expectations of the user or is it that the user is that bad that they don't work to the expectations of the PC rig?

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June 6, 2013 4:31:17 PM

A little of both, bad computers with bad users that never crash, Against great computers with great users that always crash.
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June 6, 2013 4:52:32 PM

Look what happened to bill gates when they were showing of windows 98 at there laptop blue screened. Best blue screen are the ones where the weather man is on tv and there pc crashes.
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June 6, 2013 5:11:13 PM

People expect PCs to be appliances. They "just work". Because all the ads say so.

No...they are far more complex. To corrupt an MP3 player (not just an iPod) it takes real work. You really have to try to screw it up.

A PC?
"I was trying to get some extra space, and I deleted xx."
'Yeah, you shouldn't have deleted /system32/'
"But I have a 64bit system!!!"

Look through many of the questions in here. You'll see similar. Even in the walled off Apple world, people screw them up.

The solution has been there before - true thin clients. But we do not want to go down that road again.
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June 7, 2013 1:50:22 AM

I suppose that if it wasn't for the bad user/bad PC, there wouldn't be PC forums :lol: 
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June 7, 2013 3:42:27 AM

I have built several PCs to customers quite odd and exacting specifications. Usually with those situations I get many emails from them saying "X doesnt work!" "I'm not happy! This PC isn't as good as my last one!" (Their last one was 10 years old by the way, you know the type)

I then turn up and find X works perfectly as it did the day I built it and the next when I was testing it.

The real problem? The user just doesn't have a clue or is just trying to apply 10 year old PC practices to modern day kit.

"Where is the second CD drive so I can copy my CDs???"

I once had a customer that had written up a 30 point list of "things wrong with my New PC!" That's how the piece of paper was headed!

After we had both say down with it and gone through the list, 29 were 'user issues' and one was a bizarre easily fixed config issue that maybe one in a thousand users might face.
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