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SySteM

30-09-2002, 02:02 PM

-$35
detail
http://www.dse.co.nz/cgi-bin/dse.storefront/3d97b15408709ffe273fc0a87f990752/Product/View/XH3337

-DC-

30-09-2002, 02:15 PM

bah... ripp off... you get get nicer ones from OCNZ (silver braided).
and while on the topic of dse... have you seen the alu cases they've released lately?! so ugly and about $850!!!:eek:
screw that! i'd rather get a nice as lian li or a cooler master!!:rolleyes:

varkk

30-09-2002, 03:34 PM

and it says they won't have them in until november on the site.

FKF

30-09-2002, 04:16 PM

http://www.dse.co.nz/cgi-bin/dse.storefront/3d97b15408709ffe273fc0a87f990752/Product/View/XC5309

and whats with the Ninja PC...very nice and all...mmmm Asus Ti4600 but...5400rpm drives!! Have they not heard of WesternDigital JB series??

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-DC-

30-09-2002, 05:13 PM

Originally posted by FKF
http://www.dse.co.nz/cgi-bin/dse.storefront/3d97b15408709ffe273fc0a87f990752/Product/View/XC5309

and whats with the Ninja PC...very nice and all...mmmm Asus Ti4600 but...5400rpm drives!! Have they not heard of WesternDigital JB series??

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yeah, that case right there, here's the case by itself (i forgot to post link b4 :p)
http://www.dse.co.nz/cgi-bin/dse.storefront/3d97b15408709ffe273fc0a87f990752/Product/View/XH6758

omg so ghey and expencive! NZ$864 incl GST *pukes*

dustyslapper

30-09-2002, 05:38 PM

Do you know who makes those cases DC? You might be surprised.

TP222

30-09-2002, 05:39 PM

DSE always have been highly priced their product, for a floopy drive that would cost you 48 dollars where you can get them for around 20 brand new! but one thing about DSE is that if they have them in stock, you can see it, and you can bring it home with you saving you waiting for your order to be arrive in your letter box...:rolleyes:

Spider

30-09-2002, 06:15 PM

That DSE case is made by Enermax.

whetu

30-09-2002, 07:29 PM

and whats with the Ninja PC...very nice and all...mmmm Asus Ti4600 but...5400rpm drives!! Have they not heard of WesternDigital JB series??

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dse works on name recognition (brings in potential customers), crappy components (cutting corners, such as with the hdd's - low input cost) and high retail price (max profit) to make sales...

john doe is going to walk into dse and see a ninja pc and think "woooo flash, dse is reputable i'll buy it!"

he'll only look at the MHz/GHz rating on the cpu, the size of the hdd and maybe how much ram is installed... he wont look at specifics like hdd speed/ brand/model, ram type/brand/model etc

and of course the assistant who'll talk to him will be an insolent cretin who doesnt know the difference between a keyboard and a telephone, so (s)he'll blunder his/her way through convincing the poor sucker to buy it

end of the day you can moan about how crap it is, but they'll be selling quite a few to unknowing people and making a tidy profit, so they'll continue doing so ;)

-DC-

30-09-2002, 08:01 PM

i fully agree with wheta, while i was in the shop buying compressed air, i overheard a convo between some guy and the sales person :D he mentioned that 'The GF2 MX400 series cards are close to best performance you'll ever get' lmao... i couldn't help grinning to myself :p

dustyslapper

30-09-2002, 10:58 PM

Originally posted by whetu

end of the day you can moan about how crap it is, but they'll be selling quite a few to unknowing people and making a tidy profit, so they'll continue doing so ;)

I don't know how much money there is in systems. When I used to work at DSE and sold HPs and that sort of stuff they made less then $50 for a machine that would retail for $2499. Maybe there's more in them now, but I doubt it.

And the staff there are payed about $1.20 an hour more then checkout chicks, thus some of them know about as much as the average deli assistant when it comes to info about the stock they sell.

Bleh - I feel obliged to provide an alternate POV about DSE sometimes. I had some good times there, and always tried to help people.

cadmax

30-09-2002, 11:01 PM

Dick Smith i have had 3 net work cards from them (deffrent stores)
(crads were about $45) and each one has killed the pc it was put in to!!!
cost about $400 in IT time fixing it, thay payed:rolleyes: .

the 2 other cards thay gave me (thay F***** up too:()

SO DONT BUY STUFF FOR PC'S FROM DICK SMITH

ps there CB radios work well

Deviant

01-10-2002, 07:45 AM

SecretSquirrel

01-10-2002, 08:14 AM

Originally posted by cadmax
Dick Smith i have had 3 net work cards from them (deffrent stores)
(crads were about $45) and each one has killed the pc it was put in to!!!
cost about $400 in IT time fixing it, thay payed:rolleyes: .

the 2 other cards thay gave me (thay F***** up too:()

SO DONT BUY STUFF FOR PC'S FROM DICK SMITH

ps there CB radios work well

Your English was responsible for killing Jesus.

Also you have no idea what you're talking about, I have had plenty of good experiences with computer and non-computer related products, from dozens of different stores. Only a few instances where the staff havent been able to help me, generally with electronic component knowledge.

If I were to judge you, I'd say that the computer deaths were somehow related to your extreme knowledge in PCs, but I'm not being judgemental right now.

SySteM

01-10-2002, 10:18 AM

well sometime i got good stuff from DSE they
cheap and working well
like you can get NI200 PCI ADSL Modem for $100 brand new. 7 days money back and it near your home.
don't need to wait at your post box :P hehe

SySteM

01-10-2002, 10:21 AM

or right now they got NI500 External ADSL modem for $100 only!

http://www.dse.co.nz/cgi-bin/dse.storefront/3d98cf6c0bcd818a273fc0a87f9907a5/Product/View/XH1111

SySteM

01-10-2002, 10:25 AM

and if u see in PriceSpy the chepest for NI500 external is $350
http://pricespy.co.nz/pno_195.html

Joshsti_NZ

01-10-2002, 02:37 PM

Spawn

08-10-2002, 09:50 AM

Originally posted by dustyslapper
I don't know how much money there is in systems. When I used to work at DSE and sold HPs and that sort of stuff they made less then $50 for a machine that would retail for $2499. Maybe there's more in them now, but I doubt it.

And the staff there are payed about $1.20 an hour more then checkout chicks, thus some of them know about as much as the average deli assistant when it comes to info about the stock they sell.

Bleh - I feel obliged to provide an alternate POV about DSE sometimes. I had some good times there, and always tried to help people.
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Hey I resent that comment about the average deli assistant! Cause I work in the deli, but I am also doing a BA in Business Computing. Anyway most of the teens that work in the supermarkets are at University or Polytech, or still at school etc, so are you trying to say that they are no hopers?

I have been to a DSE store and asked them about some computer related questions, and they didn't know diddly squat, and by the way their computers are rubbish, especially for the price that they sell them!
You can build your own PC for 1/2 the price they sell them for and it will be twice as good.

I have to admit they do sell some alright stuff, but the computers - meh!

dustyslapper

08-10-2002, 01:36 PM

You got exactly what I was trying to say - not that deli/dse are no hopers, (some really excellent people work there (and a few tards granted)) , but noone is being paid like a technician and thus to expect them to be technicians is dumb on our part.

I went in and asked about that external nokia modem in Dunedin - it's been returned by three different customers and has been to service five times so far. Diamond in the rough perhaps...

SecretSquirrel

09-10-2002, 12:48 AM

Originally posted by SySteM
or right now they got NI500 External ADSL modem for $100 only!

http://www.dse.co.nz/cgi-bin/dse.storefront/3d98cf6c0bcd818a273fc0a87f9907a5/Product/View/XH1111

Trademe blessed me with one for $40...and it was new.

Trust me though, get the Turbocomm one for $90+gst from NFC or whatever they are called...higher quality, I cant get the speeds I could with this modem :/ Odd too, its practically the same modem...but the Turbocomm one has a newer varient of the iTex chipset, and assumptions would be that they suck...but not as bad as the Nokia does!

FKF

09-10-2002, 08:38 PM

Originally posted by dustyslapper
You got exactly what I was trying to say - not that deli/dse are no hopers, (some really excellent people work there (and a few tards granted)) , but noone is being paid like a technician and thus to expect them to be technicians is dumb on our part.

Technicians are paid well? lol that's news to me.

.weasel.

13-10-2002, 11:36 AM

screw dse you are better off going to southern components (www.sicom.co.nz) - different brands of components but in my opinion they are of higher quality than anything dse has to offer.

e.g. bright blue led's - dse $10 EACH.
same product at sicom - $3 each.

if you want to buy overpriced infereor products then by all means go to dick smiths, but if you want good cheap stuff go to sicom.