On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 15:18:43 -0800 (PST), "nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>for me its more of a company thing rather then a product thing. I don't >like compaq's close relationship with MS, their history of having crappy >desktop products, propritary parts in their servers(when I ordered 2 new >cpus for my DL380 they came with this extra i think it was voltage regulator, >and they costed like 3 times more then normal cpus, another example is I >had to spend about 2 hours flashing firmware and bios shit to get the >cpus working, luckily compaq stayed on the phone the whole time which was >nice). But what it really comes down to for me is the company. For different >reasons I do not purchase sony, toshiba, and many other brands where I can >(sometimes something is OEM'd and relabeled). I come across old Compaqs occasionally and they are a pain in the butt. Things like you can't get into the BIOS setup without a special boot disk, power supplies that only have a 5V output so you can't use normal disk drives. And they do the Volvo trick of putting a Compaq label on stuff and upping the price 300%. Agree wholeheartedly re Sony etc. Ever tried to get servicing information on a Sony product? And the build quality is crap, with stupid things like interconnecting grounds via the mounting lugs on a heatsink, and arranging for the voltage regulators in a preamp/power-amp combination to self-destruct if you unplug the preamp board from the power amp section. Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
