The number one reason South Africans visit their local PC shop

[Jamie McKane]

The number one reason South Africans visit their local PC shop

This is why everyday South African visit their local tech gurus.

[PsychoFish]

Whoa, sounds like IC has some serious labs in their shops

We do have technicians on-site who can repair hard drives and offer advice on a machine

I'm not a huge IC fan, so I'm biased, but hard drive repair? That's tough even for the manufacturers. Some of the "advice" i've heard from IC staff also include :

- In reference to a Dual Band DSL router : "Dual band means that you transfer data at double the speed so it will be faster"
- In reference to a USB keyboard : "It's not Linux compatible"
- Customer asking about buying AV in addition to MS Office : "Microsoft Office has built in anti-virus"

[murfle]

I'm not a huge IC fan, so I'm biased, but hard drive repair? That's tough even for the manufacturers. Some of the "advice" i've heard from IC staff also include :

I'm tempted to take in a hard drive that died, that I ripped open to remove the spindle for making a silent hamster wheel, and tell them to repair it.

I've also had them tell my friend a Sempron was faster than an Athlon because it has an extra 0.1 GHz.

[mottamort]

I actually feel sorry for the people working at IC...I mean I'm a techie myself, and I'm rather low level, and even I look down on those okes (and 90% of the dudes that wear any kind of golf shirt "uniform" in a pc shop). I have heard know-nothing customers (the ones they aim to mislead) correct them on blatant BS they try and say to sound smart.

[Dohc-WP]

matrix warehouse sales guys trumps IC on stupidity imo !

[PsychoFish]

matrix warehouse sales guys trumps IC on stupidity imo !

So pissed off with Matrix for selling my parents a piece of shit that I "fixed" by setting the bios settings to performance and adding RAM.

They sold them a cheapish i5, which was ok, a slow ass 5400 rpm HDD, 2GB DDR3-800 and Windows 7 Pro 64-bit

Had to fix it by installing an SSD, a 7200rpm HDD, 2 x 4GB DDR3 1866 and changed the BIOS settings to "Performance" it was just annoying