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  From: Anthony Symons <ant@sa.pracom.com.au>
  To  : Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx>
  Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 16:36:01 +0930

Re: AMD Notebook Chips / Computer Shops in Adelaide / Auslinx

Andrew Reid wrote:
> 
> On 10 Jul 2001 16:04:34 +0930, Anthony Symons wrote:
> 
> > Really? I've found that any pc off the self, brand name or not is built
> > cheap to stay competetive (particularly the brand names) but if you
> > order a pc part by part and get them to build it although it may cost a
> > bit more at least you get something decent.
> 
> The only difference between purchasing a "Leader PC" and buying the
> parts yourself is the person assembling it. Leader take the bits and
> pieces from "out back" and glue them together.

yeah, but they use cheap crappy brands at any store to have competetive
prices. If you buy brand name components, rather than a brandname box
then you should be ok.
 
> The Compaq, IBM and HPs that I've worked on are all of excellent build
> quality, as well as using decent parts.

Hmmm. Thats why out of 6 new compaq desktops i've unpacked in the last
week, I have had 1 western digital 10gb hdd (they still sell them?)
crash, and 1 faulty 17" compaq monitor. Cdroms are rebadges lite-ons
(yeah, great) all components are on board (all or nothing style) I could
go on... and then get to response time for repair of ciritcal
servers....
 
> I build my own boxes most of the time, but when it really matters (and
> the client is prepared to pay) I'd recommend a brand-name. There are
> numerous other benefits in buying brand name (For example, Compaq, HP
> and IBM have service centers all over the world.[1]).
> 
>    - andrew
> 
> [1] The last HP monitor that I was "working with" died. I wrang up HP,
> who couriered out a new monitor and picked up the broken one, no
> questions asked.

Yeah, that is true...  Just depends on who its for I guess. 

Ant

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