Run on down to Fry's and get the parts and roll your own computer. None
of the ones I have built fail me. ALLLLL the Famous Maker brand
computer fail me for shitty parts, winmodems, etc. I paid $1500 for a
FAMOUS MAKER brand computer (not Dell, but one quite as well known) and
it sucked bad. After a year, I ran on down to Fry's, got new
motherboard, cpu, RAM, modem, etc. Now, it's a good computer.
--- "Thomas J. Hamman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 24-Jul-99 Jo wrote:
> >
> >> This is from Windows experience. I see no reason
> for Netscape to be
> >> different in Linux. I'd know better if I could
> *connect* to the
> >> Internet in Linux, but... modem manufacturers
> seem to think that
> >> Winmodems are popular.
> >
> > They'll change their mind, when we stop buying
> them...
> >
> > Jo
>
> The problem is, for the most part, it's not us
> buying them in the first place,
> it's the computer manufacturuers. They buy
> winmodems to make their computers
> cheaper while still making more money, and most of
> the end users don't even
> realize it at the time they buy it. (Either that,
> or they don't care, because
> they can't imagine using anything other than Windows
> anyway, until a year later
> when they decide to try this new Linux thing for the
> fun of it but then WHOOPS
> the modem doesn't work.)
>
> My gf recently ordered a computer from Dell (which
> seems to be widely
> considered to be the top computer maker now), and we
> discovered that ALL of
> the modem options they offer for their Dimension
> computers are winmodems.
> Buying a top of the line desktop computer from a top
> of the line manufacturer,
> and you can't even get them to preinstall a real
> modem.
>
>
> -Tom
>
> (P.S. They told my gf, who plans to install Linux,
> that they would put the
> cheapest winmodem option in the computer for her so
> she could then buy a real
> modem from somewhere else and install it herself.
> Now there's great customer
> service.)
>
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