OP, you sound like you know computers and recently researched and purchased a laptop. So, why would you waste everyone's time by calling BB in the first place?
Now that I think about it, the only retail store I ever encountered knowledgeable staff was Gamestop when it comes to console games. Those darn kids know everything there is to know about COD
Chromebooks are real labtops. They just suck.
But then again, so do most sub $300 labtops. Sub-par screens, and terrible battery life. Ironically, the Chromebooks do better in the latter department.
Don't be a douche to people that are just trying to help.
A relative wanted a laptop. So they called BestBuy, with me on the other phone.
Told the woman we were interested in lower-priced laptops. She mentions some that were $179.99 and $199.99. I wonder why they are so cheap, so I ask if they are Chromebooks.
BB woman replies that they are. So I say, what are your cheapest REAL laptops. She replies back, Chromebooks ARE real laptops. I say to my relative that the BB woman is clueless. Relative turns around and tells her she's clueless, then she hangs up. (LOL)
Go to BB, some guy helps us, tell him we are looking for lower-priced laptops, specifically some with 1007U IB-based Celeron CPUs. He goes on a rant about how Celeron chips are a 25-year-old architecture, and how they were not designed for running modern OSes.
I didn't have time to re-educate him, about how Celeron is simply Intel's branding of their lower-end CPUs, with less of the "extra" features. And that, clock-for-clock, they match other chips of the same architecture (for the most part, in standard code that doesn't use the extra features), and that an Ivy Bridge-based chip was NOT based on a "25 year-old architecture".
They did have an Asus 15.6" laptop with the 1007U, for $269.99, but the relative didn't want a laptop that big.
So we went to Target and picked up an Acer Aspire V5, like my recent purchase, except this one had a Celeron 847 and Windows 8.
Nice little 11.6" Windows 7 64-bit Netbook. Celeron, but it's IB, so it's fairly fast (1.5Ghz) and has great battery life (6+ hours). Keyboard's pretty good too.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834314110
hmmm...OP says he purchased the a netbook 2 days ago with very similar specs to the one he described.
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2344965&page=5
So either he bought the laptop for himself and is lying in this thread or someone else bought it and he is lying in that thread.
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Last line of the OPhmmm...OP says he purchased the a netbook 2 days ago with very similar specs to the one he described.
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2344965&page=5
So either he bought the laptop for himself and is lying in this thread or someone else bought it and he is lying in that thread.
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So we went to Target and picked up an Acer Aspire V5, like my recent purchase, except this one had a Celeron 847 and Windows 8.
I love bestbuy. I just refuse to talk to any of the people that work in the store. most don't know anything and every now and then you get someone willing to lie his ass off to make a sale.
they are not paid commission or bonus on anything at Best Buy. However, the store is rated on the amount of warranties they sell. If the store is budgeted to derive 7% of the sales volume in warranties, and they fall short of that, there is a lot of "coaching" and re-training of the staff until the warranty percentage is at or above goal.
So the only real incentive they have is trying to get you to buy a warranty yet of all the times I was asked if I wanted the warranty service and I always said no, they acted like it didn't phase them and never pushed any further. So I don't personally see any of them pushing sales enough to lie.
Actually all they ever do is ask if you need help and tell you stuff cause they have no real clue outside of what the package says. Their lies are based on their own ignorance and nothing further from what I can tell.
they are not paid commission or bonus on anything at Best Buy. However, the store is rated on the amount of warranties they sell. If the store is budgeted to derive 7% of the sales volume in warranties, and they fall short of that, there is a lot of "coaching" and re-training of the staff until the warranty percentage is at or above goal.
So the only real incentive they have is trying to get you to buy a warranty yet of all the times I was asked if I wanted the warranty service and I always said no, they acted like it didn't phase them and never pushed any further. So I don't personally see any of them pushing sales enough to lie.
Actually all they ever do is ask if you need help and tell you stuff cause they have no real clue outside of what the package says. Their lies are based on their own ignorance and nothing further from what I can tell.
I love bestbuy. I just refuse to talk to any of the people that work in the store. most don't know anything and every now and then you get someone willing to lie his ass off to make a sale.