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From: werner@aecom.yu.edu (Craig Werner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Why do magazine's review mail-order PC brands
Message-ID: <2776@aecom.yu.edu>
Date: 11 Mar 90 02:20:28 GMT
References: <1990Mar6.024915.1295@cs.dal.ca> <1592@starfish.Convergent.COM>
Organization: Albert Einstein Coll. of Med., NY
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In article <1592@starfish.Convergent.COM>, tims@starfish.Convergent.COM (Tim Simmons) writes:
> lane@cs.dal.ca (John Wright/Dr. Pat Lane) writes:
> 
> >I wonder why computer mags and people here on the net spend so
> >much time comparing various clone computer brands, most of them from
> >from mail-order houses in the U.S.  Surely all these brands are assembled
> >from the same generic components that you can buy from these places.

	If that assumption were true, then why would the results of the
reviews come out so different?  They do. For instance, Dell comes out way
on top of Fountain. Zeos gets high reviews. Most of the places are not
just slapping together components. They are more like buying parts
in volume and sending out complete systems. Very few of the Gateway/Dell/
Zeos/CompuAdd/Swan/etc. companies sell their parts separately any more.
Most have grown up into the whole systems approach, and for that reason,
reviews are meaningful!

-- 
	        Craig Werner   (future MD/PhD, 4.5 years down, 2.5 to go)
	     werner@aecom.YU.EDU -- Albert Einstein College of Medicine
              (1935-14E Eastchester Rd., Bronx NY 10461, 212-931-2517)
                       "Results would only confuse people."