Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!netcom!teda!ditka!mcdchg!laidbak!obdient!vpnet!ron From: ron@vpnet.chi.il.us (Ron Winograd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: Latest offering from DAK: advice and query Message-ID: <274205d5-428.4comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware-1@vpnet.chi.il.us> Date: 15 Nov 90 06:55:04 GMT References: <15660001@hpfcso.HP.COM> Lines: 29 [CURLAND MATHEW J] at prism.cs.orst.edu says: >(In *my* opinion)DAK is not a place to buy anything if you're looking for >any semblance of quality. They are masters of hype. They could do a two-page >pitch on the garden-variety slug and sell half a million. >Uhh, Ohh... Yeah, they are master of hype, and they probably could sell half a million slugs, but not all their stuff is cheesey. For instance, their breadmaker is really good. It really does do all it says. I have one, have had one for a year, and it works excellently. It does offer a bigger bowl than the others, and although it is a bit more than 5 minutes. i.e. Washing dishes, measuring ingridients, it does generally do what it advertises. The only bad thing is that the guy can promise all he want to send more recipes, in the whole year, we only get 25 extra. The machine, though, does do really good bread, and considering how much work it would be to make a loaf the hard way, it does save an extrodinary amount of time. The bread also comes out of the pan really easily. I can easily say we have made more than $400 worth of bread in the year. I would completely recommend the machine. The ice cream machine, however, bites the big one. The bowl is WAY small, and for the $250, it really isn't worth it. -Ron ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Ron Winograd |Some boy scouts were taking a survey. They knocked on a| |ron@vpnet.chi.il.us|door and asked the gruff man who answered, "Sir, do you| |-------------------|think that ignorance or apathy are the biggest problems| |in America?" Annoyed, he answered, "I don't know, and I really don't care!"| -----------------------------------------------------------------------------