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To: Ali Chen who wrote (102112)	4/4/2000 7:42:00 PM
From: that_crazy_doug	Respond to of 1577225

Ali << Yes they probably do, they are under market margin pressure. But "cheap" does not necessary mean "unreliable" if engineered correctly. A company cannot afford to sell systems if customer's return is too high - they will be out of business soon. >> More power to you if you really think a gateway or dell machine will be more reliable than something a knowledgeable person will build. However, I know for a fact gateway doesn't guarentee the parts in their machines, because our company stopped doing business with them because we bought 500 gateway machines and they all had different brand parts inside them even though they were the same model. I'm not exactly sure what compatibility issues you think come up when building a machine, but it's not like you plug in a maxtor hard drive and it works, and you get an ibm hard drive and it doesn't. Compatibility issues are the excpetion not the rule. Anyway, I'm sure the gateway athlon is okay, but you're going to crash more with it's 235 or 250 watt power supply than you will with the antec 300 watt supply I'd put in it instead. As for returns, 98% of users would blame windows. Don't get me wrong, the tier 1 guys are great for support when something goes wrong (which is probably most important to an inexperienced user), but in my experience they definitely do not build the most stable box.