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As usual, some cogent comments from Keith.  My footnotes:

	"Alpha Computer has been around for a while, but you will pay
	top dollar there."

Alpha will dicker.  I got them to knock $200 of an NEC 4DS monitor last
year, bringing the price down to that of the other sources Keith
mentions.  This may not work for a product that requires dealer
support.

	"Don't mail order from Gateway - I've fixed one of those."

As have I, but I would order from them again.  Gateway starts with good
components, but they sometimes err in assembling them, so the first
thing to do is open the box and fix what they did wrong.  They still
offer excellent prices -- they seem to be the only big vendor that
still includes two floppy drives.  Their one-year warranty really runs
for one year, and they'll pay shipping both ways if you write down
their FedEx account number and charge to it when returning defective
gear.  (Be sure you use their RMA label or they'll reverse the
charges.)

But don't buy their video monitor.  Get their system without a monitor,
then shop around locally.  The brand that Gateway sells isn't great,
you can get previous-generation NEC monitors at places like CostCo, and
you need a local dealer so you can return a problematic monitor,
possibly many times.

	"Don't buy an SX."

I would amend that: don't buy a 386SX.  A 486SX-33 is just as good for
most of us as a 486DX-33, and costs a lot less.

  -=- Andrew Klossner  (andrew@frip.wv.tek.com)
                       (uunet!tektronix!frip.WV.TEK!andrew)