IWS #216 - Results!

[britrock88]

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]

And in all that, I forget to point out that flere nailed every question!

[jbergey22]

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]

OMG WOAH!

[Butter]

Motherboard / 3 years sunk me. I keep getting into the top 10 but not getting over the top. ARGH.

[Suburban Rhythm]

Dang...question 3 was my downfall.

[claphamsa]

man, Heartbleed was SOOO the right answer, you all know nothing of computers... or is that me?

[Pyser]

only missed 1 answer, but it ruined me. oh well.

[timmae]

I suck at laptops buying... ouch.

[sterlingice]

Originally Posted by timmae

I suck at laptops buying... ouch.

Just think of it as being less stupid at buying laptops

SI

[albionmoonlight]

Masked's IWS run from 30-33 is like the Bill Russell era Celtics of I'm With Stupid.