Vista is ugly, especially at Best Buy

[silvarios]

[quote Ammo]To make matters worse, about half of the PCs were hooked up to wide screen monitors, but no one had bothered to set the display resolution accordingly. As a result, everything on the desktop was stretched out horizontally: circles looked like ovals and squares looked like rectangles. How can their salespeople be qualified to advise people about computers?
This too bothers me. Greatly in fact. Best Buy is not the only retailer who is full of incompetent management and staff. My local Staples has the same issues with configuring any LCD to look nice in the showroom. The computers hooked up to LCDs have their resolution set to something far less than the native res of the LCD. Yuck. The laptops are much more appealing when it comes to showing off Vista's "fancy" new graphics engine as the displays are generally configured correctly.

Then again what do these retailers really care. I bet they did the math and not wasting time configuring anything probably saves them money compared to how much time and effort a knowledgeable employee would have to spend making sure everything was configured correctly versus how many people would actually be dissuaded from making a purchase on account of the crap look of the current setup.


Nathan

[ka jowct]

The last time I was in the Mac Department of J&R, the MacBooks were desperately in need of adjustment. The displays were terrible, all washed out. A sales rep spent a few minutes fiddling with one (afer I'd tried and gotten nowhere) and couldn't improve the display, so he said "That's the way they are" and walked away to continue grousing with his fellow reps about how Apple was out to destroy them…

Yeah, right: some competitive threat they are. I went from there to the Apple store and the MacBook displays there were fine.

[loveshine]

>The largest MLS in the country, MRIS, is compatible with Opera 9.

Are you saying Opera 9 on a machine running Windows does ActiveX?
I thought only IE does?

[silvarios]

[quote loveshine]>The largest MLS in the country, MRIS, is compatible with Opera 9.

Are you saying Opera 9 on a machine running Windows does ActiveX?
I thought only IE does?
No, MRIS doesn't use ActiveX as far as I can tell. That's why it works with Opera on Windows (and Linux and the Mac OS as well). Good times.


Nathan

[OWC Jamie]

Most usually its High School kids who have messed up the displays.
Funny, huh ?
They pic the keycaps off laptops, too.

OK, probably some childish adults, too.

Circuit City here used to set up the display units so an access code was required to change anything.