subject: Three Wrong Moves When Shopping For A Computer [print this page] Shopping is generally a trial and error process. You fit some clothes, and decide whether you would want to buy it or not. When you get home, you place them on again only to get frustrated to find out that none of your clothes match your new shoes. What you're left to do is either to buy other items to make out a new outfit, or simply to give it to your brother or sister instead. The same goes when you are shopping for other things including a personal computer. However, the risks are higher as you will be investing good cash for one item. It won't only frustrate you, but it would also burn a little hole in your bank account as well.
There are quite a number of tips and pointers made available to personal computer buyers whether at magazines, newspapers or through the numerous articles and blogs on the world wide web. Still buyers tend to make few of the same mistakes. Here are the top three slip-ups that most buyers make in purchasing personal computers. Please don't make these mistakes,
Holding out for better deals. The funny thing about technology is that it is constantly changing. One turn you see new releases of the latest thing and the next hour an even new thing that tops that invention is introduced. Unless you get in the band wagon you will definitely be left behind. Most buyers go to the store, scan the items and dream of coming back on a later date when they can get the lower price or bigger features. There are arguments to these two considerations.
One thing you should consider is that the lowered price on that item could very much mean that this would be phased out soon in place of newer, more powerful units. They are offered at cheaper prices because they are already outdated. Is that the type of purchase that you want? Getting a bargain for something that's about to be obsolete? Second, new features will continue to sprout and you cannot stop them. If you wait for something better and bigger, you might as well be waiting forever.
Buying just the computer. Yes indeed, you are shopping for a new computer, but that doesn't mean that you don't need the other accessories that comes along with it. While some stores may opt to sell you the CPU alone, you will still need to buy other items like speakers, a working keyboard and mouse, perhaps a printer, and many others.
Choosing to extend their warranties. People have long believed that a longer warranty would mean better security and value for an item that you have just purchased. Although this may hold true in other items like cars and other machinery, for computers you might just be spending more than what you should be. Most of the offered warranties cost substantially.
The thing about this is that some computers crash simply after their warranty expires. That would mean lost cash and new expenses for repair. With the pace that technology is evolving nowadays, those parts you have an extended warranty over might just be obsolete.
