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From: marshall@wind55.seri.gov (Marshall L. Buhl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Why do magazine's review mail-order PC brands
Message-ID: <1990Mar10.005733.27221@seri.gov>
Date: 10 Mar 90 00:57:33 GMT
References: <1592@starfish.Convergent.COM> <1990Mar6.024915.1295@cs.dal.ca> <2825@uudell.dell.com>
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stecz@hotwheel.dell.com (John Steczkowski) writes:

>In article <1592@starfish.Convergent.COM>, tims@starfish.Convergent.COM
>(Tim Simmons) writes:
>> 
>> Of course you have the big name clones like Dell who mold their own
>> plastics so that thier cases look different from MR. smalltime PC
>> assembler on the corner.  Then the customer thinks "Wow they are a
>> big company and thier box looks really cool, so I guess thier
>> system must be worth $500 more than Mr. small time PC assembler"

>Dell's Motherboard are of our own design and manufactured exclusively for
>Dell PCs.  It is true that our peripherals are OEMed, but IBM even OEMs
>a lot of their peripherals.

Not only that, but Dell will probably still be around when you finally
send your computer off to the great bit-bucket in the sky.  A lot of
smaller companies will fail in the next few years.  I'm willing to pay
extra for the comfort of dealing with a stable company.
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