Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!iuvax!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!mms00786
From: mms00786@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 386 motherboards and cases
Message-ID: <111700120@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 13 Jul 89 17:45:00 GMT
References: <32684@conexch.UUCP>
Lines: 25
Nf-ID: #R:conexch.UUCP:32684:uxa.cso.uiuc.edu:111700120:000:1148
Nf-From: uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!mms00786    Jul 13 12:45:00 1989


I totally, totally agree with the note on getting what you pay for. I personally
ordered a Gateway 2000, probably the cheapest machine on the market for a 4Meg
machine. The trouble with computer equipment is this: paying incrementally more
usually results in incrementally more performance, but paying incrementally less
usually has a black and white quality to it - it works or not at all.

The Gateway machine refused to run Windows/386 and parts of Lotus Manuscript.
These are programs I use 99% of the time, so the end result was this : I paid
3700 dollars for a paper weight.

I, too, strongly recommend shopping the company. I hope to buy my next one
from a company that offers on site service. Surprisingly, this is not a very
costly option: Zeos offers one for $50 (?) a year, CompuAdd offers for free.
That is barely the cost of sending the machine back ONCE.

So unless your time is totally worthless, work overtime a couple of days, use the
money to pay the difference, and save your marriage, your sanity, your social
standing, and a lot of money in phone calls and return postage.

Hope this helps.

Milan
mms00786@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
.