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britrock88
04-21-2014, 11:01 AM
I hope you all had an enjoyable weekend. Thanks for waiting around for me to get back from mine and wrap up this edition of I'm With Stupid.

Here are the question-by-question results...

1. What brand of laptop was Stupid running?

Dell - 19
HP - 4
Apple - 3

A surprising eliminator here (my bad). There was a moment's hope when 3 HP answers came in consecutively, but alas.

2. How long had Stupid had his laptop before it kicked the bucket?

5 years - 13
3 years - 5
1 year - 4
2 years - 3
4 years - 1

Again, was hoping that the 1/3 year answers would have a stronger showing (1 year was actually up 4-2 in the early going). But Stupid loves round numbers.

3. What was the ultimate cause of the laptop's demise?

Hard drive - 11
Motherboard - 4
Virus - 4
Physical damage - 3
Speed - 2
Battery - 1
Heartbleed - 1

A decent second tier of answers here, but people seem convinced that the hard drive is the issue. Which is weird, because that's never been the issue for me.

4. How much time will Stupid spend shopping for a new laptop?

1 week - 15
1 day - 5
1 hour - 3
10 minutes - 1
30 minutes - 1
6 months - 1

The answer of 1 week started slowly, but gained tons of steam as days went on. The loners represent a fantastically wide spread of shopping time.

5. What will be the feature that Stupid cares about the most in a new laptop?

Display size - 7
Speed - 7
RAM - 4
Graphics - 3
Battery life - 1
Hard drive capacity - 1
Laptop color - 1
Operating system - 1
Price - 1

The best spread of any question here. There is a lot of lumping in, to be fair, but we would've had a lot of singletons otherwise.

6. How much money will Stupid spend on his new laptop?

$1000 - 20
$500 - 6

Another situation where there were clumps of $500 answers that made me think this would be close to a split. Surprised nobody tried $1500 or $2000.

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And now, for the results!

Has an extensive series of tubes:

claphamsa 4446 0.08%

On hold with India:

timmae 6000 0.11%
Abe Sargent 9120 0.16%
Young Drachma 16720 0.29%
cartman 22000 0.39%
NobodyHere 28728 0.50%
Chief Rum 32400 0.57%
MIJB#19 48906 0.86%
Alf 71820 1.26%

One step short of Chromecast/Roku/Apple TV/Amazon Fire competency:

nilodor 121600 2.13%
jbergey22 217360 3.81%
mauchow 311220 5.45%
Solecismic 345800 6.06%
StLee 386100 6.77%
lighthousekeepr 400400 7.02%
sterlingice 462000 8.10%
QuikSand 478800 8.39%
PurdueBrad 514800 9.02%

Just knowledgeable enough that all of their friends ask for tech support:

albionmoonlight 598500 10.49%
MizzouRah 622440 10.91%
Butter_of_69 798000 13.99%
Pyser 815100 14.29%
Coffee Warlord 1755600 30.77%

The Steve Ballmer clones that run Microsoft:

nol 2074800 36.36%
Suburban Rhythm 2074800 36.36%

The man who made tens of billions from the company IPO, and the champion of IWS #216:

flere-imsaho 5705700 100.00%


Congrats, flere!

You join rare company in winning an IWS, hosting an IWS, and winning the next IWS. Here's a rundown of your fellows:

Karlifornia: 97/99
Masked: 30/31/33
QuikSand: 16/18
Subby: 110/112
TRO: 7/9

...and I think we're all happy that we have more diagrams to look forward to. :)

britrock88
04-21-2014, 11:02 AM
And in all that, I forget to point out that flere nailed every question!

jbergey22
04-21-2014, 11:07 AM
Certainly not impulse buyers here at FOFC. I dont understand how it takes 1 week to shop for a laptop. I feel odd at this point.

Congrats flere and well done britrock.

flere-imsaho
04-21-2014, 11:07 AM
OMG WOAH! :D

Butter
04-21-2014, 11:11 AM
Motherboard / 3 years sunk me. I keep getting into the top 10 but not getting over the top. ARGH.

Suburban Rhythm
04-21-2014, 11:11 AM
Dang...question 3 was my downfall.

claphamsa
04-21-2014, 11:40 AM
man, Heartbleed was SOOO the right answer, you all know nothing of computers... or is that me?

:D

Pyser
04-21-2014, 12:05 PM
only missed 1 answer, but it ruined me. oh well.

timmae
04-21-2014, 12:17 PM
I suck at laptops buying... ouch.

sterlingice
04-21-2014, 12:19 PM
I suck at laptops buying... ouch.

Just think of it as being less stupid at buying laptops :D

SI

albionmoonlight
04-22-2014, 10:43 AM
Masked's IWS run from 30-33 is like the Bill Russell era Celtics of I'm With Stupid.