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by Dave on January 6, 2010

Was Best Buy really telling customers that their optimization program would increase processor speeds by 200% for $39.99 as this article claims?  This is an amusing story about the Geek Squad’s abilty to fuck up errr tweak PCs and the performance enhancements that result.  Best to do it yourself I think.

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{ 5 comments }

1 greginak January 6, 2010 at 5:37 pm

mandatory geek warning!!! Just toss windows and install yourself some Linux.

2 JosephFM January 7, 2010 at 11:21 pm

I didn’t have this experience, but maybe that’s because I was too obviously not going to fall for it no matter what.

Also the local Geek Squad manager is president of my college anime club, so he knew me already.

3 Dave January 8, 2010 at 7:45 am

I dealt with the Geek Squad twice and the experiences were fine, but because I know enough to be dangerous, I could understand what they were doing and was able to provide them with specific guidance.

The 200% increase in processor speed amused me greatly. The only time I ever recall seeing that kind of overclocking was when Tom’s Hardware, some years back, overclocked a Pentium 4 processor from 2.4 Ghz to 5.0 Ghz. For cooling, it required liquid nitrogen.

4 Nob Akimoto January 7, 2010 at 11:44 pm

So what government regulation is allowing Best Buy to do this horrible thing? Surely in a free market this would never happen.

5 Dave January 8, 2010 at 7:39 am

So what government regulation is allowing Best Buy to do this horrible thing? Surely in a free market this would never happen.

Hmmm…

I heard policymakers are working on this and are using the SEC’s ability to prevent securities fraud and ponzi schemes as its basis.

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