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From: mms00786@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: The PC Magazine study of 80386 syst
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Date: 14 Jul 89 18:08:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!mms00786    Jul 14 13:08:00 1989


I too feel that these reviews should be taken with a grain of salt. How much time
do you think they spend on each machine? For example, the Gateway 2000 386 20Mhz
machine was selected as the best by BYTE. The darn thing isn't even totally
compatible with DOS, and even the people at Gateway acknowledged that fact after
I bought the machine. I believe Computer Shopper (highly reputable, I know),
selected Northgate as the best, and only recently there was a big horro story on
them in the net. Best bet is still to buy next day onsite service; its actually pretty
cheap from places like ZEOS, adn free from DELL and CompuAdd.

Milan
mms00786@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu