I purchased Compaq Presario Laptop and I have been very happy with the support. Compaq has live chat support which is a real convience. Things have been quite hectic recently and there has been a couple of time when I just did not have time to research a problem.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Gabriel Sechan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Rumor Mill: Apple explores use of Intel chips Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 15:14:41 -0500 > > > > > From: "Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Wednesday 25 May 2005 11:25 am, Gabriel Sechan wrote: > > > Carly is gone, as of a few months ago. We were singing "Ding Dong the > > > witch is dead" in the aisles. > > > > Somehow, I expect that this was, literally, done. :) > > > Yes, it was quite literal. Someone at this office almost got in > trouble for it, until we got reports of it happening all over hp. > They couldn't punish the entire workforce. > > > > That said, I don't know where to go for server hardware. For consumer, > > > there's dozens of decent whitebox companies. Or put it together > > > yourself- unless you're looking for a cheap email and net machine, you > > > still save a lot of money over HP/Dell/IBM by self building. > > > > The problem being manpower. Building them ourselves requires the staff to > > do so (component selection, integration, testing, repairing, etc.) We'd > > much rather run with a smaller staff and have a vendor do those things for > > us, so we can focus on getting our primary jobs done. > > > Aye, probably not the best decision for a corporate world choice. > Of course, in the corporate world you really don't need a new PC > unless you're doing multimedia or development professionally, old > cheap parts will do fine, so the cost savings is low anyway. > Whitebox vendors are still a good option though. I'd argue they're > even a better option- if you buy 200 machines from a company that > makes 10K a year, you are a significant customer to them (2% of > their volume) and will get "drop everything and fix it" level > support. Buy 200 from Dell or HP, and they won't even notice you. > > Gabe > > > > -- [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
