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From: sheinfel@grad1.cis.upenn.edu (Aviad Sheinfeld)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Northgate's Troubles
Summary: Price turned me off, too
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Date: 2 Dec 90 17:26:08 GMT
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In article <11624.27585ccb@ecs.umass.edu> daly@ecs.umass.edu writes:
>In article <11951@sybase.sybase.com>, forrest@sybase.com writes:
>> As an happy owner of some Northgate stuff I'm sorry to see them
>> in dire straights. Maybe this is partially caused by all the money
>> they wasted on excessive advertising...
>> 
>
>I'd also say it was because of their high prices...
>
>While Northgate is known to produce good systems, I found the price difference
>too great to make them a serious consideration.  Perhaps other people were
>thinking the same thing...
>
>Bryon Daly
>daly@ecs.UMass.edu
>

I, too was recently looking for a new 386-25 system and called
Northgate because of the good reputation their product had.  I found
that the best price they gave me - the only price they gave me - was
~$800 over other well known mail order places, and was ~$1500 over
what I ended up paying.  Although I was looking for the lowest price
for a good product (i.e. brand name manufacturers for all components,
AMI BIOS) I'd still say Northgate is too close to IBM and Compaq
prices to stay in the mail order business for long.

Aviad