Sarah Practitioner is an attorney in practice for herself. She decides it is time to update her computer system, but she knows very little about the latest technological options. Sarah goes to a local computer dealer and consults with Tommy Techno, the owner. Sarah explains that she needs a computer to keep track of her billable time, generate her invoices, do her accounting work, and do her word processing. Tommy shows Sarah a computer that is "on special." Sarah buys it, but when she gets it back to the office and sets it up, she discovers that the computer is completely inadequate for her needs. There is nothing inherently wrong with it, however — it is a perfectly fine computer for most kinds of tasks for which people customarily use a PC. However, Sarah finds that the computer works very slowly when she is concurrently performing the aforementioned tasks. Assuming the sale price meant she could not return the PC, can Sarah recover for some kind of breach of warranty? If so, what kind, and what will she have to prove? Will she be successful?

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Sarahs situation involves the concept of implied warranty specifically the implied warranty of fitness for a particular purpose When a seller like Tom... View the full answer