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I am in complet accordancd with you Owen.
I will never buy one of these "name brand" computers.
kevin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Owen Davies" <owen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 7:41 PM
Subject: Re: Computer memory, etc.
> Shashi Aggarwal marred otherwise excellent comments [ 8-) ]
> by concluding:
>
> > PS: A happy compromise is to buy a national brand at a local electronic
> > store e.g. buy a Compaq at your local Best Buy store, etc.
>
> Is this really a new message, or has the list server barfed? One of my
own
> messages just came through for the second time, maybe two weeks late.
>
> Anyway, I just noticed the recommendation of Compaq and can't
> let it pass. Take a look at alt.sys.pc-clone.compaq before buying
> one of their systems. Unless things have changed radically in the
> last couple of years, their proprietary add-ons to Windows are so
> bug-infested that they make Windows itself look good, and the
> errors they make build up until you can't use the thing any more.
> Or so it was with my aging Compaq, which I use as seldom as
> possible.
>
> Worse yet, on that model, though not with others in the same
> line, there was no way to re-install part of the operating system or
> otherwise fix things without bombing out all your files. It was go
> back to the bare hard drive, or live with the problems. And sooner
> or later, it froze up so badly that living with it became impossible.
> Because I used the system so rarely, I only had to reinstall all my
> software four times in two years. I've heard of folks who had to do
> it eight or ten times in six months.
>
> Owen Davies
>
>
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