Deceptive Pricing at CompUSA

Posted by caitlyn on Jun 2, 2009 7:27 PM EDT
Ever Increasing Entropy; By Caitlyn Martin 		Mail this story
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On Friday my housemate and I went down to what used to be the Tiger Direct retail store in Raleigh. It turns out that Tiger Direct bought out what was left of CompUSA and has renamed their stores. I guess the CompUSA name is better known as a brick and mortar retail computer store. The main reasons for the visit were for my housemate to upgrade the RAM in her Dell laptop from 1GB to 2GB and for me to buy an SD card to use in my Sylvania netbook. Some of you may have already noticed that I am now writing regularly for DistroWatch Weekly which means I am trying out different Linux distributions on a regular basis. It might be nice (not to mention less risky and somewhat easier) to install to the SD card rather than my hard drive when first checking things out.

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Too bad... softwarejanitor 10 1,507 Jun 3, 2009 6:54 AM

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