Was I cheated??
By amitksing
@amitksing (1323)
India
April 7, 2007 3:12pm CST
In year 2000, I bought a PC. I was too young then and also didn't knew operating computers a lot. I chose Intel Pentium III processor and the vendor charged me accordingly.
But these days, after I really became too much familiar with computers, I checked the properties of my Computer by right clicking the My Computer icon and then selecting Properties. I am shocked to see that it shows that my system has a Celeron processor.
Is the information that I am seeing correct? Am I a victim of fraud by the vendor?
5 responses
@Destiny007 (5805)
• United States
7 Apr 07
If you were lead to believe it was a Pentium III and bought it as such it is questionable.
The Pentium III was available as a Pentium and also as a Celeron just as the Pentium 4 was.
Not knowing what to look for is why that happened, because that should have been plainly marked somewhere as to what processor version it was equipped with.
As to whether it was fraud or not is probably going to be hard to determine or prove at this point.
The big question is whether or not you choose the same vendor for your next purchase or look elsewhere.
I have always owned Celerons because they were cheaper at the time, but they were lacking in power.
@Metallideth (572)
• United States
8 Apr 07
Well, it was 7 years ago, so are you sure you didn't just think it was a Pentium, or look at the specs on a similar model and get confused? If not, then it still doesn't really matter now, since it's been so long. The sales person could have made a mistake, but I don't think he/she would have purposely lied about something like that. If I was a salesman (who was mean) and wanted to lie about a computer, I'd probably just make generalized exaggerations, since it'd be harder to get in trouble for that, and they're more easily believable and not as easy to disprove. Man, I've never even thought about that before. I've got way too much time on my hands, lol.
