GGeeeeeeeeeejuuusssssss…I was ready to pull the trigger on this computer until …look at the sellers 1 year warranty . GOOD GRIEF CHARLIE BROWN - can anyone read this stuff and try to make any sense out of it please? Please look and give some opinions?
Then the additional warranty - has anyone here ever tried to submit a claim and was it without grief?
Quite frankly it looks like a “Get out of jail free” card for them. I’ve never heard of them before and reports around the Internet are certainly less than stellar.
As far as additional protection goes I assume you’re talking about Square Trade? If so I’ve had several policies with them over the years but have been fortunate enough not to have to make a claim. They get very good reviews on Amazon for standing by their warranties which is why I paid the extra.
Yah, I’m buying less from Woot (and Amazon, as well) because of the byzantine gotchas. With all the layers of vendors and such, with everybody pointing a finger at everybody else, it’s getting to be more trouble than I care to deal with. Seems like it’d be to everybody’s advantage to have just one (or just a few?) blanket Return/Warranty policy that was written in plain English.
That’s cute. I have 15TB of stuff, and I’m certain I don’t have the largest library out there.
250GB is plenty for a base operating system, Office, about 5 years of pictures, and various documents. Remember to back up, boys and girls, especially on a refurbished system.
Hmm. This would be a good candidate to rip out the mobo+RAM+CPU and put it in a NAS style case for a media server. It’s pretty damn close to transcoding 3 1080p streams simultaneously, 3 720p shouldn’t be a problem.
Debating on this or the HP Proliant that’s on sale at NE. The proliant has the case already, more server like, and pretty much gtg, but the processor is ~1k passmark less.
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