Thursday, April 13, 2006
Rehearsal
Went back to Biopolis again for a rehearsal for my duties on Monday and Tuesday. It was quite a waste of time actually. They rehearsed with the emcee, so the ushers just sat there and watched. Near the end, they called a couple of them to practice opening the door in preparation for the arrival of the VIP. The rest of us didn't do anything.
Since it ended early, I went with YH to Funan as he wanted to buy ink for his newly revived printer. After that we walked around a bit to look at laptops. We stopped to look at a Lenovo one, and the salesperson asked if we needed help. YH asked him whether he thought a Centrino Duo or a Turion is better. The guy said, "Of course Centrino Duo lah, it's like I give you a Pentium 2 and a Pentium 3, which one would you say is better?" These may not be the exact words he used, but the gist of the message is there. We were a little confused now, how can he compare Centrino and Turion like Pentium 2s and 3s? It's like comparing an RJ yr 1 pupil to an RJ yr 2 pupil and using that to draw conclusions about academic differences between a VJ yr 2 student and an RJ yr 2 student. Obviously the logic if flawed. I think he doesn't know what a Turion is.
The next question stumped him too. YH asked him about 64 bit support for intel processors. He was instantly lost and wanted to know which component YH was talking about. Then he admitted defeat and said, "I don't know about this 32 bit 64 bit stuff as customers usually ask me about clock speeds."
For the readers who don't know what a Turion is or what 32 bit and 64 bit is about, if you're not a laptop salesman, it's ok. If you are, you better go find out and stop trying to smoke your way through.
Anyway, I need to do more reading myself to fully understand the issues involved, but then I'm not a computer salesman, haha.
I changed the post date so it reflects more accurately when this occurred.
Since it ended early, I went with YH to Funan as he wanted to buy ink for his newly revived printer. After that we walked around a bit to look at laptops. We stopped to look at a Lenovo one, and the salesperson asked if we needed help. YH asked him whether he thought a Centrino Duo or a Turion is better. The guy said, "Of course Centrino Duo lah, it's like I give you a Pentium 2 and a Pentium 3, which one would you say is better?" These may not be the exact words he used, but the gist of the message is there. We were a little confused now, how can he compare Centrino and Turion like Pentium 2s and 3s? It's like comparing an RJ yr 1 pupil to an RJ yr 2 pupil and using that to draw conclusions about academic differences between a VJ yr 2 student and an RJ yr 2 student. Obviously the logic if flawed. I think he doesn't know what a Turion is.
The next question stumped him too. YH asked him about 64 bit support for intel processors. He was instantly lost and wanted to know which component YH was talking about. Then he admitted defeat and said, "I don't know about this 32 bit 64 bit stuff as customers usually ask me about clock speeds."
For the readers who don't know what a Turion is or what 32 bit and 64 bit is about, if you're not a laptop salesman, it's ok. If you are, you better go find out and stop trying to smoke your way through.
Anyway, I need to do more reading myself to fully understand the issues involved, but then I'm not a computer salesman, haha.
I changed the post date so it reflects more accurately when this occurred.
posted by cosine @ 9:52 PM 
