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To: Tony Viola who wrote (59662)	10/22/2001 7:10:57 PM
From: Milan Shah	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 275872

Maybe you hit the nail on the head. If you don't notice anything, it's good? I'd have to agree. I have a 5 year old Dell Pentium 133 that my 3 1/2 year old daughter still uses. Running Win98, and about 6 kids games. The thing is built like a tank - the kids abuse the CD tray, hit the power switch any old time they feel, and usually are kicking it with their feet continuously while they are working with it. The clunker manages to boot every time, 90% of the time after fixing some error using the scan disk utility that Win98 runs after a non-clean shutdown. In the 5 years, I have built and cycled through 5 (AMD) DIY computers built using "quality" components. On my system, the motherboard has died twice (I really don't understand this - might it be the power supply/spikes to the MB?). My father-in-law's power supply smoked out. My Dad's CD drive (Toshiba?) won't read most CD's, and for some reason, the system just won't recognize a modem (yup, swapped modems, reinstalled OS, just stopped working one day!). All these systems worked flawlessly for about 2 years each. These were not cheapo components. What amazes me is how Dell is able to create and procure components that are so reliable. Milan