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Article #75Re: Read B4 Buying a PC!!
From: spike
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 00:00
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Just wondering if anyone recommend me a good computer? woo hang hock wrote: >cjames@singnet.com.sg wrote: > >You haven't experienced the worst until you've tried an Aris >Microcomputer PC. In my experience, that is the worst, absolutely the >poorest made PC in the world. Granted they purchase brand-name >components but they're not tested for compatibility! I bought one 2 >years back. Before 6 months went by, all sorts of gremlins went to >work - sudden crashes, sudden re-boots, ports quitting on you without >rhyme or reason. >I must have contacted them a dozen times. Each time, some poor >technician comes around, fiddles around trying to fix an essentially >irreparable computer, at his wits' end. After numerous calls for a >resolution, I gave up. In the end, I decided that that, in order to >prevent high blood pressure and homicidal urges, I'd better get rid of >it. Bought motherboard, chip, etc., separately and installed >everything inside the Aris case and my newly upgraded computer works >fine! Cost me an additional two grand but it's worth it just to get >the bad taste of the @#$*&%$*& out of my mouth. I just hope they >haven't cheated too many students (or people with limited budgets) out >of their hard-earned savings. Somebody should do something about large >corporates who bully individual consumers - they ignore you knowing >fully well that one person cannot make a difference. >God save the world if they manage to get a public listing (and >horrors, distribute that poor excuse of a computer widely)! : ( > >>sld10595@singnet.com.sg (Aquinas David) wrote: > >>>I agree that Digitek has very poor after sales service. they should try and improve on this. >>>and they should try to keep quality high. all the features don't mean a thing if they >>>don't work. if Digitek doesn't watch it they will become like IPC. > >>>My friends and I suggest that IPC is actually the initials for Intensely Problematic Computer. >>>I bought one some time back. Upon installation the computer refused to work. >>>the technician didn't know why. he brought it back and returned with another. >>>that didn't work either. he returned with yet another. that worked...for three days. >>>he replaced it with another model and I had to pay for the upgrade. > >>>two months later, the hard disk crashed. I called IPC service centre. I was told that >>>all their technicians were out doing repairs, and would be available only one week >>>later. when he finally arrived he replaced the harddisk with another samsung harddisk. >>>he had six more in his bag. even he complained that these disks were highly unreliable >>>but were cheap. the hard disk is now giving me read-write problems. > >>>Try as you might to support the local PC industry, you only get disappointed. >>>poor service. poor parts. no reliability. i think I'll buy a Mac next time. > > > > >
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f917c,414cd8ae5725233c X-Google-Attributes: gidf917c,public X-Google-Thread: 10b46a,6bf8e7bbad3ab855 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b46a,public X-Google-Thread: 1081b0,414cd8ae5725233c X-Google-Attributes: gid1081b0,public X-Google-Thread: 110960,21a93fb0526debd5 X-Google-Attributes: gid110960,public X-Google-Thread: 1019d9,414cd8ae5725233c X-Google-Attributes: gid1019d9,public X-Google-Thread: 10beb8,6bf8e7bbad3ab855 X-Google-Attributes: gid10beb8,public X-Google-Thread: fe176,414cd8ae5725233c X-Google-Attributes: gidfe176,public X-Google-Thread: f7f17,64147fc9303b7576 X-Google-Attributes: gidf7f17,public From: spike <homeboy@cyberway.com.sg> Subject: Re: Read B4 Buying a PC!! Date: 1996/03/26 Message-ID: <4j9703$109@newsvr.cyberway.com.sg> X-Deja-AN: 144207652 references: <4dppps$vj7@lantana.singnet.com.sg> <4dqkak$27t@lantana.singnet.com.sg> <4j8hre$mo3@lantana.singnet.com.sg> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: cyberway.com.sg mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: sg.consumers,sg.singnet.marketplace,soc.culture.taiwan,soc.culture.hongkong,soc.culture.malaysia,soc.culture.singapore,biz.marketplace.computers.pc-clone,biz.marketplace.international,alt.folklore.computers,ba.market.computers,aus.computers,comp.forsale.computers,misc.computers.forsale x-mailer: Mozilla 1.22KIT (Windows; I; 16bit)