On Thursday 06 March 2003 14:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I would whole heartedly recommend Monarch to anyone in the market > > for computer hardware. Sorry about the commercial here, I realize > > that this is OT but I would hate for anyone else to go through the > > garbage I endured. > > Newegg is also excellent in this regard (I've returned two items and > they were very gracious and accomodating in the process). CDW, > though expensive, was also very good with the return when my Firegl > X1 wouldn't work with the binary Linux drivers ATI ships. > > Perhaps we should have a hardware rating page, aimed at Gentoo (or > perhaps more generally GNU/Linux) folks, where one can check against > other's experiences before purchasing from a particular vendor. > > Jean.
I'd vote for that... I could have saved myself a lot of hastle had I consulted a page like that instead of shopping for price alone. There is a site, www.resellerratings.com that rates computer hardware dealers. Tufshop.com; http://www.resellerratings.com/seller1924.html Monarchcomputer.com: http://www.resellerratings.com/seller_info.pl?seller_id=2079 newegg.com: http://www.resellerratings.com/seller2121.html and CDW: http://www.resellerratings.com/seller1971.html -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
