Certainly nothing wrong with buying a Mac. I rather like OS X. A very nice 'consumer friendly' alternative I might add. As a matter of fact I do work in a small store here in Eugene (ComputerBase) and do build quite a number of machines. I believe in the products we sell too. We are largely an Intel shop for one very big reason. Dependability. Intel boards have a return rate of less than 2%. Intel also backs their stuff with 3 year no hassle warranties with replacements at your doorstep in a matter of days. Where as some manufacturers have had nearly 100% return rates. Not possible you might think but.. talked to a client today who used to deal with another shop in Eugene. After going through 8 boards in only 5 machines he's vowed not to buy another board of that particular name especially with a certain chipset. I don't blame him since I've replaced countless boards from that same manufacturer and many of those were from the same shop he used to deal with. ComputerBase carried some of those boards for less than 8 weeks when things started coming back. Even went through 2 in my sister's machine. One was sound didn't work, the other one had the parallel port decide to die. Switched over to Gigabyte and have had greater results. Also, Via tends to be a pain even with better boards like Asus.
I could go on but I'll spare others the pain. :) Ciao, Mr O. --- Rodney Mishima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well.... > > No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the > American people. > > ... And Fry's success speaks for itself. > > A formerly mighty retailer in Hillsboro, PC Heidens, was quite > arrogant > when I phone them; thinking I might support a local guy > instead of the big > box Fry's. Recently, I surfed their Web site only to find the > guy > apologizing for having to shut down his store. > > > Are you a clone maker? In the past, when I need help from the > motherboard > level, I went to Stan Warren's place, the former host of > euglug 2+ years ago. > > Now that I live in Hillsboro, I am trying a local shop in > North Portland. > > In the pursuit for quality, I recently purchased another > MacIntosh. > > Rodney __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
