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From: bcw@rti.rti.org (Bruce Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Boca 1024x768 1 Mb SuperVGA card
Summary: PC Connection
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.173715.9394@rti.rti.org>
Date: 18 Mar 91 17:37:15 GMT
References: <1991Mar16.114004.5556@cc.helsinki.fi> <94349796@bfmny0.BFM.COM>
Organization: Research Triangle Institute, RTP, NC
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In article <94349796@bfmny0.BFM.COM>, tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes:
> In article <1991Mar16.114004.5556@cc.helsinki.fi> antikainen@cc.helsinki.fi writes:
> >Does anyone have experience of Boca Research display cards, especially the
> >model with 1Mb of Ram (1024x768x256)? In PcMagazine a company called PC
> >Connection is selling it for USD 145. Is there a cheaper palce to buy it?
> 
> USD145 is a good price.  An international customer is probably smarter
> to go with a major mail order retailer like PC CONNECTION than to try
> and shave five bucks off at Yarmulke Electronics.

I'd second Tom's response to this.  PC Connection is a very reputable
company, very good people to deal with.  Their prices are not always
rock-bottom, but they are always reasonable, and the service is 
top-notch.  The ads are a bit 'cute' but in spite of that these 
people are professionals.

It's very easy, even for someone in this country, to get into problems
with mail order if you don't know anything about the company.  For
someone doing business with a mail order company in another country,
it's even easier.

This is not to say that there aren't other good companies:  I have
had or know people who have had good dealings with Bulldog,
Programmer's Paradise, AST Research, Dell, Zeos, and others.  If
you want to find someplace cheaper than the well-known companies,
your best bet would be to find one that's been around and advertizing
for a while - if they've been in business for a while then they have
probably been treating people OK (otherwise they don't tend to stay 
in business for very long ...).  

Good luck -

						Bruce C. Wright