> go with a cheap LOCAL vendor
But if you pick the cheapest, you may find they underestimated
what it took to run a profitable company that will survive, and
6 months later are out of business.
I've seen it. People that bought from cheap local vendors that
offered 5 year, even lifetime, warranties, gone, gone, gone.
They come and go like sand on the beach.
If they want a cheap PC, they have probably doomed themselves
to failure from the outset.
Chris wrote:
>
> >> It would seem the majority of people I confer with have nothing but pain
> >> and anguish leading to murderous thoughts when dealing with Dell.
> >>
> >> F Dell and it's namesake!
> >
> >I wonder why the disparity exists?
>
> Maybe because once upon a time, Dell's were actually good.
>
> For some time, I had recommended them. Their PCs were tanks. You could
> beat the hell out of them, and they kept working. And they were good
> solid components that worked with default installs of windows 95 and NT
> 4. Support was even once great (knowledgeable, polite, fast).
>
> And then they grew... and cut costs to stay in business... and went into
> the crapper like just about every other consumer PC company.
>
> Now, when people tell me they are going to buy a PC, and ask who I
> recommend... I tell them with a straight honest face... I recommend NO
> ONE for home use. I can't honestly think of a single good company
> building consumer level windows boxes. Between them all putting in
> cheaper and cheaper parts, and MS making windows... well more windows
> like, I can't think of any company that can get it right, and get it
> right consistently.
>
> So now I ask people WHY they are buying a windows PC. Everyone seems to
> have one of two answers. 1: to play games (I tell them to buy a
> Playstation 2), or 2: to get online (I tell them to buy a cheap used low
> end PII and throw a ton of ram into it). Everyone that doesn't fit one of
> those two... I tell them to learn enough to build their own, or just go
> with a cheap LOCAL vendor (so you have someone you can throw the machine
> at when it craps out for the 100th time), or buy a Macintosh.
>
> -chris
>
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Received on Thu Jan 10 2002 - 06:26:07 GMT