I think he means the thing itself, the actual device in your hands, is not a particularly compelling piece of hardware artistically speaking.What part of it sucks at art? Check reddit and youll see some incredible stuff done with the surface
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I think he means the thing itself, the actual device in your hands, is not a particularly compelling piece of hardware artistically speaking.What part of it sucks at art? Check reddit and youll see some incredible stuff done with the surface
Best Buy is still a great place to buy high-risk items like monitors and laptops, where 8 out of 10 are fucked up with dead or stuck pixels. Hell, I just bought a Chromebook yesterday and there is a stuck blue pixel.
If I bought it at Amazon, I'd have to go through the trouble of shipping it back, but I got it at Best Buy and can simply walk in and get my money back.
I also prefer to get certain things like Blu-ray movies there, since they tend to come in cases that are all scratched and fucked up from Amazon.
*sits back with a drink*
*smacks lips*
So...who was it that was saying tablets were a fad? Oh, that's right...
*takes a drink*
10" screens? People make the mistake that if they can use it for 5 minutes, they can use it for 5 hours. No way you can do productivity on a 10" screen. Same goes for retina displays and movies. If you you're young enough you can appreaciate a full length movie but once you're in the 20's or 30's there's an increasing chance you can appreciate it for maybe 5 minutes and then you're eyes will relax themselves subconsciously or you will get a headache and by 40 you most likely need glasses for even that first 5 minutes.
The performance aspect will eventually get resolved. Just like PDA's were ahead of their time. The market collapsed and came back with a vengeance in Smartphones.
But the size issue isn't going away. That probelm is only partially addressed with Microsoft's convertible approach of a keyboard.
Mobile devices need a dock. That way you don't need a tablet, but can use a phone once they are powerful enough. Take you phone jam it in a dock at home, it charges and you have a desktop. When they will have enough power and decent os to support a desktop is TBD. But will happen.
They don't match 3rd party sellers on amazon. Has to be shipped and sold by amazon.com.
That's the only place my tablet gets used anymore. It only gets used to play solitaire when perched upon the porcelain throne. It doesn't even connect to the internet anymore....Turns out I don't need a 10" screen...on the toilet after all...
There is absolutely nothing that Best Buy has to offer. Nothing. Every single item they have in their store can be purchased somewhere else for cheaper.
The only thing that they can market on is convenience.
No kidding. I thought tablets were going to be awesome until I actually got one. Now it mostly collects dust. Turns out I don't need a 10" screen in bed or on the toilet after all. They make sense in a few cases, but its a niche product category.
When I hear certain tech 'journalists' remarking that kids today will never use a mouse and keyboard I develop a strong urge to kill something.
*sits back with a drink*
*smacks lips*
So...who was it that was saying tablets were a fad? Oh, that's right...
*takes a drink*
Who??
I think the rise of full OS tablets will make sales climb again. (Surface pro 3) etc.
I have an iPad 2, and iOS 7 runs like shit on it. It's obsolete....because it's obsolete (in terms of capably running the newer OSs).
They are still relevant? The best buy down the road from me is almost always empty. I'm convinced it's going to close soon.
Depending on the manager, price matching at Best Buy is a tremendous pain in the ass.
are touch laptops helping to kill off the tablet?
or is it that after the touch novelty wears off, people realize they couldn't do shit with tablets
Some of you guys must live by some horrible Best Buys. I've been to maybe 4 of them throughout my area and its always easy to price match and very little do I have to stand in a long line to return things. Also since Amazon charges tax in Florida now, its pretty convenient to take advantage of their price matching. Provided the item is sold by Amazon.com and not any other seller of course (which I hope you guys are making sure is the case!).
IMO, Amazon needs to either get back to doing what they do best, or returning prime to the way it used to be and charging less for the membership for those of us that don't care a lick about their streaming services.
"So you now find laptops at $300 that used to cost $1,000."
When did this happen? The $350 notebook of today is the same speed as the $400 notebook of 2007, just with more ram, and maybe a bigger hd. I should know, every year you buy a pos $400 notebook with a sub 1080p display and a dual core cpu ( or slow ass quad core) and standard hard drive. Its not like next years are faster. Hell nothing as come out notably faster in the last 5 years.
Sweet look we get 20-30% more performance per buck, after 4+ years.
http://.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i7-930-vs-Intel-Core-i7-4790
Depending on the manager, price matching at Best Buy is a tremendous pain in the ass.
Although I agree with you, I'd just like to point out that its not ACTUALLY free and there are ZERO actual subsidies on the phone. They simply build the phone price into the contract price.If it were not for massive subsidies, cell phone purchases would have crashed too. I have an iPhone 5 and I see no reason to upgrade except that it is practically free to upgrade after 2 years. If I had to pay several hundred for a new phone, I probably would have had the same phone I did from a few generations ago.
Some of you guys must live by some horrible Best Buys. I've been to maybe 4 of them throughout my area and its always easy to price match and very little do I have to stand in a long line to return things. Also since Amazon charges tax in Florida now, its pretty convenient to take advantage of their price matching. Provided the item is sold by Amazon.com and not any other seller of course (which I hope you guys are making sure is the case!).
There is absolutely nothing that Best Buy has to offer. Nothing. Every single item they have in their store can be purchased somewhere else for cheaper.
The only thing that they can market on is convenience.
So instead of offering nothing, Best Buy offers convenience.