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SLICK GOKU BABY
Jun 12, 2001

Hey Hey Let's Go! 喧嘩する
大切な物を protect my balls


So yea, I'm buying a new laptop and Amazon would like me to pay $149 so I can have an expert setup the laptop for me.

I'm curious what they are going to do? Plug it in and hit a few buttons and job well done? $149?

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its all nice on rice
Nov 12, 2006

Sweet, Salty Goodness.



Buglord
They'll make sure all the bloatware is installed and boots up before anything else.

mind the walrus
Sep 22, 2006

Sounds like something a rich LA brat with a YouTube "following" would do in his third year.

If you've got that kind-of cash go for broke. Buy like 10 of them with "expert installation" for each and throw a loving eight-hour pizza party or some poo poo when the dude(s) get there, get their digits, and post it online ensuring they get fired for wasting time on the job. Then boom you've got a new homeless person to follow in a death spiral for six months of easy new content.

Filipino
Nov 6, 2019

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
I'll do it for $99.95. Believe me you don't want to try this on your own.

Cough Drop The Beat
Jan 22, 2012

by Lowtax
One of my old co-workers used to pass around the weirdest stuff on Amazon like $40 Coca-Cola branded mini-fridges with expert installation, including free pickup of your old mini-fridge. We kept wondering what kind of person ever requested that.

Jesustheastronaut!
Mar 9, 2014




Lipstick Apathy
I've bought probably a dozen different laptops from Amazon over the course of about 18 months and trust me when I tell you, your an absolute fool if you do not pay for an expert setup from a professional IT technician. But OP sounds like a fool so I hope he enjoys data bombs, botkits, and e-worms

Nefarious 2.0
Apr 22, 2008

Offense is overrated anyway.

smells like cum in here

Dr. Stab
Sep 12, 2010
👨🏻‍⚕️🩺🔪🙀😱🙀
You don't want an unsecured laptop just flapping around. A professional installation includes the appropriate mounting hardware to lock it in place.

Also they install the laptop's proprietary power rectifier. You're not an electrician. You don't want to be loving around with 120 volt mains power.

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
Mahbe expert installation is a euphemism for something...

Lil Swamp Booger Baby
Aug 1, 1981

I loving say do it. If you dont you are PUSSY IMBECILE? Need I say more OP of thread? Bastard individual, simpering apelike coward, frugivorous spankbank empty herbivore sodomite!!

Lil Swamp Booger Baby
Aug 1, 1981

Sorry that was mean

Waltzing Along
Jun 14, 2008

There's only one
Human race
Many faces
Everybody belongs here
I'm gonna go against the grain and say you probably don't need it. In fact, I'd recommend wiping the hard drive and installing an OS of your choice. Preferably one that doesn't have a bunch of extra poo poo you don't want.

By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
IT WASP ME ALL *BZZT* ALONG!


Pay almost 50% extra for someone to just stick in the windows cd?
How many handjobs does it come with?

Lil Swamp Booger Baby
Aug 1, 1981

Waltzing Along posted:

I'm gonna go against the grain and say you probably don't need it. In fact, I'd recommend wiping the hard drive and installing an OS of your choice. Preferably one that doesn't have a bunch of extra poo poo you don't want.

He needs it. Dont lie to this man

Waltzing Along
Jun 14, 2008

There's only one
Human race
Many faces
Everybody belongs here

Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:

He needs it. Dont lie to this man

Shhh....I'm playing a long con here. Just go with it.

Telebite
Aug 23, 2018

Does some Amazon dude actually show up at your front door and come inside and set up the laptop for you, in your house while you offer them coffee? Or is it just some software (i.e. bloatware) bundle that is preinstalled on the machine that gets shipped?

Waltzing Along
Jun 14, 2008

There's only one
Human race
Many faces
Everybody belongs here

Telebite posted:

Does some Amazon dude actually show up at your front door and come inside and set up the laptop for you, in your house while you offer them coffee? Or is it just some software (i.e. bloatware) bundle that is preinstalled on the machine that gets shipped?

No one knows. No one has ever actually paid for it. Even amazon doesn't know.

Dell_Zincht
Nov 5, 2003



I'd buy a better laptop for a start, OP

Icochet
Mar 18, 2008

I have a very small TV. Don't make fun of it! Please don't shame it like that~

Grimey Drawer
Go for the Master installation ($298). That comes with a free Google Chrome internet browser.

Lil Swamp Booger Baby
Aug 1, 1981

Icochet posted:

Go for the Master installation ($298). That comes with a free Google Chrome internet browser.

Can they install anything, like the mythical prostate massager that will finally give me an actual prostate orgasm

Icochet
Mar 18, 2008

I have a very small TV. Don't make fun of it! Please don't shame it like that~

Grimey Drawer

Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:

Can they install anything, like the mythical prostate massager that will finally give me an actual prostate orgasm

The Grandmaster Setup Experience will ram your rear end like nobody's business ($1199)

Zippy the Bummer
Dec 14, 2008

Silent Majority
The Don
LORD COMMANDER OF THE UKRAINIAN ARMED FORCES
spring for the UltraSoar installation that allows the computer to transform into a mechanical beast of your choosing that will not only roam around your home doing chores but also morph into a jet and fly you to work while sucking your dick and pleasuring your wife (optional)

only $29.99 extra

Lil Swamp Booger Baby
Aug 1, 1981

Icochet posted:

The Grandmaster Setup Experience will ram your rear end like nobody's business ($1199)

That's a fair price for what I'm asking for

Jesustheastronaut!
Mar 9, 2014




Lipstick Apathy
Sup guys, guess what? I'm posting this comment from a remote session in OP's laptop computer that he hasn't even received yet, which I easily accessed through various security flaws that could have been avoided if the OP wasn't such a cheap fucko.

Sucks that the computer will probably not even work once op gets it because I was able to remotely turn it on and run Prime95 while it's still confined to its box

EdwardSwifferhands
Apr 27, 2008

I will probably lick whatever you put in front of me.
You have to get the professional toucher to set it up or you'll never be able to find Minesweeper.

SLICK GOKU BABY
Jun 12, 2001

Hey Hey Let's Go! 喧嘩する
大切な物を protect my balls


EdwardSwifferhands posted:

You have to get the professional toucher to set it up or you'll never be able to find Minesweeper.

Oh minesweeper is too much for me. All I need is Vegas Solitaire installed.

GABA ghoul
Oct 29, 2011

It's an escort service, op. How have you never heard of this before? Just let them be

Icochet
Mar 18, 2008

I have a very small TV. Don't make fun of it! Please don't shame it like that~

Grimey Drawer

SLICK GOKU BABY posted:

Oh minesweeper is too much for me. All I need is Vegas Solitaire installed.

drat, you need 3 techs working in shifts to overclock that rig for solitaire

Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

Yeah, best do it OP. You'd only gently caress it up if you tried

Dads Dip Cup
Aug 13, 2009

Grimey Drawer
It's Expert Mode for people that want to put their installation skills to the test, OP. Perhaps it arrives only partially assembled, or the OS is in a protected .zip file that nobody can remember the password for, that sort of thing

By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
IT WASP ME ALL *BZZT* ALONG!


I offer an exclusive white glove service: the computer is carried to your house on a sterling silver platter accompanied by a marching orchestra and at least one (1) elderly statesman of note.
A bishop or other clergyman of your choice is available to bless the computer at an additional fee.

autism ZX spectrum
Feb 8, 2007

by Lowtax
Fun Shoe
I glanced at the thread title and thought it said "149ft extension cord" and the answer was obviously yeah, duh, buy the extension cord so you can walk around your house with the laptop plugged in

Giraffe
Dec 12, 2005

Soiled Meat
They watch you jerk off to porn and make sure your form is good and you don’t pull anything.

Mega64
May 23, 2008

I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.
It's a ripoff OP, all you have to do is press Alt and F7 to boot up in safe mode.

Mega64
May 23, 2008

I took the octopath less travelered,

And it made one-eighth the difference.
Now that'll be $100.

ziasquinn
Jan 1, 2006

Fallen Rib
i looked up these supposed "details" on amazon and it sounds like a bad deal, OP

klafbang
Nov 18, 2009
Clapping Larry
Probably don't stop at expert installation. See if you can also get an expert user to use the computer for you.

yogizh
Oct 12, 2015
Dumb Helicopter Joke Enthusiast
149 USD is literally the price of the screen of that laptop.
Pretty sure you can manage uninstall of Candy Crush alone.

SweetMercifulCrap!
Jan 28, 2012
Lipstick Apathy
If a person actually comes to your house, take the time to review every piece of your hentai collection with them to ensure each file is compatible with your new laptop.

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Burt Sexual
Jan 26, 2006

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Switchblade Switcharoo
Try clicking the Details link, op.

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