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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Dell, Northagate, Zeos ... advice?
Message-ID: <3870@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 7 May 91 22:31:56 GMT
References: <75383@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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| Is there anyone out there who has a Dell, Northagate or Zeos machine (or
| any other good machine that they convince me to buy)
| that can tell me how they like it, i.e. quality, reliability, performance
| or any other helpfull info.

  I've used Dell a lot (maybe 100 at work) and Northgate and Gateway a
little. If I were buying and money wasn't an object I'd buy Dell. 

  If money is an object you look for a cheap box with a big power
supply, good motherboard (AMI, Mylex, Micronics), good disk controller
(WD, Ultrastor, CompuAdd, Adaptek (SCSI)), and decent disk (maxtor,
Seagate, Connor, etc), and monitor (NEX, Mitsubishi, Sony, etc). All
the other stuff is cheap. Maybe call 3-6 Computers (back of _PC Week_).
I don't believe it matters much who assembles it, as long as you get the
good stuff.

  Hint: if you buy from a small outfit, order by mail, specify the brand
name of the major parts after checking on the phone, and pay by credit
card. This gives you maximum coverage for getting your money back and
using mail fraud charges to insure that you can. Oh, and have them
*mail* you information if possible, since that proves you were solicited
by mail.

-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
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