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| SirPoonga:
--- Quote from: TurboC-- on December 05, 2005, 06:16:07 am ---Optical drive seems like mostly a wasted component for a MAME machine. Once you load your desired stuff on the HD, what good is it really? And he could use an older existing HD preloaded with what he wants, since I doubt most games would require massive blazing HD access. I haven't looked at his specs, but in general a budget machine is the way to go for MAME I would think... --- End quote --- If you only run mame, yes. If you run pc games like golden tee golf, blitz, etc, then you need it. Otherwise I have my arcade wirelessly networked so an optical drive isn't really needed for mame. I have a loud cd drive in there. I have been thinking of using daemon tools to mount images of the CDs I use on it and getting rid of the drive. |
| quarterback:
--- Quote from: missioncontrol on December 05, 2005, 04:40:54 am --- --- Quote from: quarterback on December 03, 2005, 03:49:50 pm ---I wouldn't hold my breath on getting that $90 back. --- End quote --- --- End quote --- |
| Howard_Casto:
I've used tiger direct almost exclusively for 5 years... I've never had any trouble with rebates. As sirp said, the key is reading... but we all know how some of the people on these forums have difficulty following directions. ;) |
| missioncontrol:
--- Quote from: SirPoonga on December 05, 2005, 05:13:24 pm --- --- Quote from: missioncontrol on December 05, 2005, 04:40:54 am --- --- Quote from: quarterback on December 03, 2005, 03:49:50 pm ---I wouldn't hold my breath on getting that $90 back. Tiger Direct is notorious for not coming through on rebates. --- End quote --- yep if it's tiger direct don't expect to receive your rebate. --- End quote --- This has got to be coming from someone who DOESN'T use tiger direct. --- End quote --- your right I don't use them anymore.... After losing out on $15 rebate, a $35 reate and a $20 rebate I pretty much decided to quit using them. Maybe their ways have changed in the last year and a half and that's good for their current customer baseline, but they will not get my business ever again, and I've got the right to bad mouth them as a bad business.... |
| daywane:
I can not say much about there rebates. some I get , some I do not. Tiger Direct has been great with me for the last few years up till a few months ago. I never consider the rebate's I look at the total cost. say my Light on DVD burner. $50.00 ( love it) every thing on my PC came from them. All my blank Cd's and 99% of my blank DVDs come from Tiger Direct My only complaint is I used to be able to place a order and in 3 days it was at door . Last 3 times I ordered I got run around. Took weeks. Customer support would say it's shipped and another call later I would get HM MM It's due to ship any day now. This has been 3 months ago so maybe they have there shipping fixed again. If I was asked about Tiger last year I would have told you Never look at the rebate as a factor in buying. Look harder and you can find something worth the price even if you do not get the rebate. ( if you do ...That is even better) I am thinking of building a larger PC again... I will start looking there 1st. but I am one of the few that have never had a problem with a celleron CPU I want to back up DVDs I can do it just fine Play Mame ...YEP burn MP3's ... yep Have I found something I wanted to do and a celeron CPU could not do... Nope. I am sure a Pentium is better but I have NO need of the extra power Kinda like my Mazda RX7 VS my S10 V6 Mazda for showing off and speed , S10 gets me to work and back |
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