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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...

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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.
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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.

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yep if it's tiger direct don't expect to receive your rebate.

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This has got to be coming from someone who DOESN'T use tiger direct.



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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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