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1 review for LA Computer Fair
nerd. geek. dweeb. look these words up on google and you will find the following:
nerd:A computer expert by aptitude and not mere training. Usually male, under the age of 35 and socially inept; a person whose tremendous skill with ...
geek: A person who knows all the terms listed here and many more. Normally wears a tanktop, thick rimmed glasses and a bow-tie. Due their vast knowledge of computer termanology, they don't have a social life. They also live at home with their mothers.
dweeb:A person regarded as socially inept or foolish, often on account of being overly studious; wimp.
i'm pretty much all these with the exception that i'm not a 35 yr old male with dark rimmed glasses living in my mother's basement. i love the WoW. counterstrike and q3 were the reasons why in college i didn't do so hot my freshman/sophomore year. pc games essentially fuel my desire to upgrade or build a new computer. why else would i? for work? hahhaahah. and to completely the entire circle, yes, i had an annual pass to the pomona computer fair when i was in college.
back in the good old days, the fair was housed in two of the barracks at the pomona fairplex. tons of vendors showed up ready to wheel and deal. you could get cheap cases, quality ram for less $$ (even if you got a bad stick, you could hunt them down and have them replace it for you), and a cpu you could return within 30days or your money back (guaranteed). i remember building a pretty sweet compy that could run tribes 2 at the highest settings for around $680 monitor included. alas, these were the good old days.
flash forward to February 10, 2008. i walk up to the pomona computer fair only to discover that its now been relegated to one barrack. weird. i also notice the lack of line to get in, the one less entrance (you know, to ease the flow of traffic), and just the general lack of people. wtf? i showed the admissions booth lady (who had an iPod and a mini tv in her booth to keep her busy) my computer fair email coupon. thank god i didnt pay full price ($8) but instead only paid $5 with the coupon. i walked through the doors only to find complete and utter disappointment.
the place was pretty... unremarkable. i saw tons of booths for crap stuff like cell phones and LED fans. thats nice. i saw maybe five or six booths that actually dealt in hardware (harddrives, CPUs, graphics cards) but when i looked at the prices, they were all higher than http://newegg.com! what the hell. i went to bargain with one of the vendors for a cpu. he would budge about $10, and thats after i showed him the newegg price that was $60 lower than his on my treo. frustrating. i would have bought a ton of components from him if he had been willing to play around with the prices. you seriously think i'm going to pay above retail? maybe if your warranty was ridiculous (and a very iffy maybe at that), but you have NO warranty and you can't guarantee that i could come back to you at the next fair if it crapped out on me. screw that.
after sifting through a bunch of crap and subpar merchandise, i had to turn to my friend and apologize for the lack of goodies and to let him know that we will have to build his compy off of newegg or other various compy sites on the internet. sigh.
i do have the good memories, computer fair, but you have definitely ruined the experience for my friends and for my future offspring. i say good day to you, sir. good day.
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