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From: smsmith@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Stephen M. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Video Choice - Summary
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Date: 26 Jan 91 00:10:59 GMT
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In article <1069@rna.UUCP> dan@rna.UUCP (Root Beer) writes:
>
>	In a recent PC mag, Orchid got the worse rating in terms of reliability
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>and service. Video 7 got among the highest (but stay away from the Fastwrite)
>and ATI did fine.

If you are referring to the article in PC Magazine September 25, 1990,
this was a review of the *old* ProDesigner model based on T3000.
The PD II model has a T4000 chip.

To quote from the article:

"According to a company representative, Myrna Nickelson, Orchid is 
phasing out its most problem-prone model, the original ProDesigner,
in favor of the high-resolution ProDesigner II."

Although you said that you had the model II PD, you're the first
person I know who has had trouble with it.  Are you sure it's model
II?

S. "Stevie" Smith \  +  /
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