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To: MeDroogies who wrote (134)	5/7/2002 5:50:24 PM
From: David W. Taylor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4345

>> I can figure out my PC. Don't be condescending...I probably have more experience with PCs than you realize. >> You obviously don't have the experience to know that Dell don't even make the Dell-branded laptops. They are made by Compal in Taiwan and are generally of fair to middling quality. On the other hand Dell does make their own Desktops/Workstations/Servers, if you allow that almost all of the parts are from other brand-name makers and that Dell is and always has been the assembler of choice. I just this week took delivery of the higher-end Dell Dimension 8200 and the entire transaction was a joy. The only point of contention was that I moved my USB hub from my ThinkPad to the 8200 and it occasionally lost the connected devices. It turns out that all I needed to do was turn the hub to bus-powered mode from externally-powered mode. The point of this post is mainly to suggest that Dell will always win in the market that it defined and that HPQ is doomed to die a horrible death in this particular space. David p.s. one final thing MeDroogies. The 8200 came with a Conexant modem. I finally own an item made by Conexant! Pity it will never be used.