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Technology Stocks : WDC/Sandisk Corporation -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ausdauer who wrote (9925)	3/30/2000 2:31:00 AM
From: Rocky Reid	Respond to of 60323

>>I own a Compaq PC and the hard drive died on the 366th day that I owned it. << I am a Mac guy (iMac and G3 450), but I built my own PC last year to run some apps. I will never buy a name brand PC. I slapped together an ATX motherboard PC for a total cost of about $700 (including the 17" monitor); a PC that Compaq would probably sell for $1400 or more. I used an OEM Dell Win98 disk from a friend's PC (don't tell Bill Gates). If a component fries, I can just buy another cheap replacement. I've heard other horrible stories about Compaq's proprietary ways all too often. As far as Sandisk and the name "CompactFlash" goes, I hope that the courts seriously don't give them the right to stop others from using variations of the word "Compact." This is just plain silly. Silly enough however, that I wouldn't be suprised if Compaq wins.