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Heh, I used to sell computers. If you spent 5 minutes with them explaining Mhz, MB, GB, in terms they could understand and how to go to each tag and understand where they stood in the lineup, I wasn't on commission, I told them they could go anywhere and take those numbers and compare prices and make an informed decision apples to apples, they almost all immediately bought.
We did NOT generally have the best price, but would price match. They wouldn't even look elsewhere. You know what you're talking about, we're sticking with YOU!
That one does 120 million things a second, this one is the newer chips, it bascially does two things at a time, so they're both 120 but this one gets 240 million things done. This is the hard drive, it's your file cabinet, this is the ram it's your desktop. The file cabinets are huge, but you can only get a couple things out at a time if you don't have enough desktop space. All these systems have 3 basic options, low, medium, high. Buy medium. It'll last another year or two longer than low and the price isn't that much more. If money is no concern, buy high, it'll last the longest.
They all just made a quick decision and got the hell out.