Path: utzoo!dciem!nttor!contact!zooid!dve From: dve@zooid.UUCP (system operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: ALR 386SX ...Any problems out there? Keywords: ALR, Trouble?, Turnaround Time Message-ID: Date: 30 Jul 90 17:07:37 GMT References: <1990Jul27.053308.4679@smcnet.smc.edu> Organization: here Lines: 18 pgeltner@smcnet.smc.edu (Peter Geltner, Comp Admin) writes: > We have 16 ALR 386SX PCs and have experienced about a 25% failure rate in > either the motherboard, memory board or hard drive. This is much larger > than our failure rates for name brands such as AT&T. Is this just a > coincidence, or has anyone out there experienced similar failures? Also, We buy straight, no-name clones from a clone dealer. Our failure rate is about 5%, and 90% of that is hard disk failures, because our supplier is trying out new hard disks. If something goes wrong with one of our new machines, the entire unit is replaced the next day. The machines are also dirt cheap. I'm not a big fan of "name brand" machines. Especially when most name-brand machines have their own proprietary memory and BIOS, so compatibility problems crop up, and they don't let you put your own boards in, and so on. Although there isn't much glamour in clones, at least they stick to the standards and off-the-shelf replacement parts are always available.