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Article #89Re: FS: Gateway 2000 Solo 120MHz laptop
From: Nadav
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 00:00
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Richard Hom wrote: > I'm a happy Gateway customer and feel that the warranty issue should not > detract from an otherwise worthy vendor. > > As a user and seller of computers, I've had Gateways last me 5-6 years of use > with the portables being on 18 hours / day 7 days of week. Most people like > Gateway products because theyi provide a good product at a good price. I disagree. I was about to recommend a 2500 dollar Gateway system to a friend of mine for the reasons you mentioned. Then I found out they're still using inferior Motherboards, they don't put cache in (on their Home series --my g-d, look at the benchmarks), they charge excessive prices to get extra RAM put in, and they make it difficult to return things like Monitors which, from many posts on these newsgroups, may well get shaken up in the mail. (I dont' believe Gateway has a burn-in policy.) When I compare their prices to those charged by vendors who use Intel Endeavor or Asus motherboards, they do not compare favorably (though Gateway gives you lots of fun cd's). My point is that I often want to recommend a company to people that are computer novices, have never heard of "motherboards" or "cache", and may need to phone in once in a while for help with a configuration. So I don't appreciate Gateway putting together systems, say, without cache --knowing that 9 out of 10 customers won't realize their systems are performing abysmally compared to what they are capable of. These days I recommend Dell, with some reservations. My two cents, Nadav
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fabd0,f19d908a0fe6e482 X-Google-Attributes: gidfabd0,public X-Google-Thread: 106ce4,f19d908a0fe6e482 X-Google-Attributes: gid106ce4,public X-Google-Thread: f8c09,f19d908a0fe6e482 X-Google-Attributes: gidf8c09,public X-Google-Thread: 1067c3,f19d908a0fe6e482 X-Google-Attributes: gid1067c3,public X-Google-Thread: 11196f,f19d908a0fe6e482 X-Google-Attributes: gid11196f,public X-Google-Thread: 11164d,f19d908a0fe6e482 X-Google-Attributes: gid11164d,public X-Google-Thread: faca2,f19d908a0fe6e482 X-Google-Attributes: gidfaca2,public X-Google-Thread: 1156cd,f19d908a0fe6e482 X-Google-Attributes: gid1156cd,public From: Nadav <nadav@leland.stanford.edu> Subject: Re: FS: Gateway 2000 Solo 120MHz laptop Date: 1996/04/04 Message-ID: <316445E2.242@leland.stanford.edu> X-Deja-AN: 145848972 references: <4jmh56$1606@mule2.mindspring.com> <4jnsjh$le9@dfw-ixnews1.ix.netcom.com> <316024f1.250811648@news.mindspring.com> <31606a4b.1220158@news.suba.com> <4jr8tp$j8j@news.iag.net> <4jra4o$lfe@mule2.mindspring.com> <NEWTNews.828517386.4086.dpruitt@Pigs_IN_Space.galstar.com> <atticus-0304960500470001@atticus.mindspring.com> <NEWTNews.828543097.22512.rchom@rchom.ix.netcom.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Stanford University mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: us.forsale.computers,misc.forsale.computers.pc-specific.systems,misc.forsale.computers.pc-specific.portables,mindspring.local.atlanta,comp.sys.laptops,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,atl.forsale,alt.sys.pc-clone.gateway2000 x-mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Win95; I)