Hi Wayne,
On Sunday 24 April 2005 3:29 pm, you wrote:
> At 06:35 AM 4/24/2005, Gaffer typed:
> >The effect, at least in the UK, is that Asus has two markets. It
> >seems that only Asus approved distributors can supply the "Asus
> >brand" product, but everybody can supply ASRock.
> >
> >Even so, Asus has suffered with quality problems for a long time.
> > So much so that I now only recommend "Gigabyte".
> >
> >Based on previous discussion, I suspect that things are a little
> >different in the US market !
>
> There is very little difference in the US market from the UK as
> ASRock was a popular cheapie board for a short while. I wish that
> clients appreciated the difference between a $50 mombo & a $250 one
> but they don't even to accept one that is half way in between most
> of the time. I build way too many ultra cheap systems to suit my
> taste & then I get silly questions like why won't my system run
> Doom 3. Most of them don't care for it when I say hey, at least I
> built your system so it could be upgraded to run Doom 3 but that
> will cost you $100 or more for the upgraded video card. I wonder
> how many copies of Doom 3 were returned because people bought it
> for systems that couldn't handle it? </rhetorical>
>
>
> ----------+----------
> Wayne D. Johnson
> Ashland, OH, USA 44805
> <http://www.wavijo.com>
You know, I get that every Christmas. Mom and Pop want a computer
for little John. Cheap as possible. Must handle school curriculum,
word processing, spreadsheet, database, Internet, you know the
stuff. They they say "How Much". So you tell them a price. Then
'We want him to be able to play games as well'........ So I double
the price. Then you get 'How Much'. So I say, buy little John a
Playstation or Xbox........ You guessed right. But he has got one
of them, they say!!
Nine times out of ten, every year, I go through that same routine.
It only happens at Christmas time !!!
Best part is when they come back a few months later, when little John,
dear boy, can't play the latest game that all his mates have !!!!
Lot a truth in "Pay now, or Pay Later"...!!
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Best Regards:
Derrick.
Pontefract Linux Users Group.
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