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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Gateway 2000 Computers
Message-ID: <3442@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 91 21:31:09 GMT
References: <1991Mar8.011318.28717@mathcs.sjsu.edu> <1991Mar9.000159.13295@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991Mar10.180547.2682@mathcs.sjsu.edu> <1490@intermec.UUCP>
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In article <1490@intermec.UUCP> bobf@orca (Bob Folline) writes:

| >That is all right--a lot of cheap clone makers do that. Nevertheless,
| >I'd recommend that you go to your friendly neighborhood clone manufacturer
| >if you live in an area with such enterprises. At least you can carry the
| >broken machine to their doorstep if it fails and picket their store if
| >they don't give you satisfaction. 

  Watch yourself on that one! I dealt for five years with a local clone
maker, for the reasons you cite. I bought as a dealer, secure in being
able to take the machines back locally. The sixth year he close his
doors with no warning. Poof!

  Even large companies which advertise nationally can do that, but it's
less likely.

  I would not buy an off brand motherboard unless I could afford to
replace it if the support vanished. I use so no-names, but I do so only
where I don't have to depend on repairs, and can afford to toss the part
if I must.
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
    sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me