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Article #166Re: Q: Are Packard Bell or Acer PC's reliable, and...
From: Thomas M. Buccelli
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 00:00
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Neil M. Lensky (neill@gate.net) wrote: } The high end Acer/Altos machines are first rate and quite reliable. I've got 6 in the field running SCO } OpenServer 5 with almost no problems and excellent performance with ~ 16 users each. } I've 'heard' that the lower end machine (Acros?) has below average reliability. If this is for personal use I've } had very good results with Micron (mail order). My father has one of the lower end (Acros) Acer Machines, and it is ok. We did not have good luck with the tech support for those machines, I wanted to buy some memory for him for Christmas, called up Acer and gave them model, etc. requesting information. The told me with conviction to buy the wrong type of memory. Well, it only cost me the shipping charges to replace, but I still would not recommend. Expandability for the older one was also kind of limited, everything built into motherboard and could only disable all or none. Tom -- Thomas M. Buccelli (tmb@idm.com) #include <std_disclaimer.h>
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f53ba,914713666f836c09 X-Google-Attributes: gidf53ba,public X-Google-Thread: 100cc1,914713666f836c09 X-Google-Attributes: gid100cc1,public X-Google-Thread: 11196f,914713666f836c09 X-Google-Attributes: gid11196f,public X-Google-Thread: 105111,914713666f836c09 X-Google-Attributes: gid105111,public From: tmb@idm.com (Thomas M. Buccelli) Subject: Re: Q: Are Packard Bell or Acer PC's reliable, and... Date: 1996/03/21 Message-ID: <DoLGxz.FBy@idm.com> X-Deja-AN: 143408560 sender: news@idm.com (The News User) references: <4ikjqq$iv4@ecom1.ecn.bgu.edu> <314F850B.9D@gate.net> followup-to: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,chi.wanted organization: Information Data Management newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,chi.wanted