Thread: My 770 becomes sluggish after browsing for 15-20 min
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2005-11-25 , 15:45
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Originally Posted by Karel Jansens
I my opinion, "early adopter" is marketingspeak for "suckers who will give good money for anything. as long as they're first". I'm not prepared to pay someone to test their beta-quality computer hardware. That's Microsoft's way of doing "business". So Nokia, call me when you've got your 770 act together...
Yeah, Apple "suckered me" in 1977 when they sold me an Apple ][ that only had 4 Kilobytes of RAM in it for the equivalent of about $10,000 of today's US$. I had to pay the equivalent of about $2,000 and throw out that memory and replace it with 16 K. Then I had to pay the equivalent of about $1,000 to buy a 'floating point' card so that it could deal with decimals and numbers outside the range of -32768 and +32768. Christ, I had to put 7 power supplies in that thing over the next few years, at $250 each! And Apple didn't even make a 100K floppy drive available for it for
almost a year! And it came with NO APPLICATION SOFTWARE. It couldn't even do color Bitmaps - I had to use my television to see its output!

Dude, I did EXACTLY what you suggest; I told them to call me when they had their act together. Earlier this year they finally did - after 28 years - and told me to buy an IPOD. I already had an RCA MP3 player that takes SD flash in any size, though, so I didn't. Boy, did they lose out by "Suckering ME"!