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To: Rainy_Day_Woman who wrote (5256)	6/25/2002 11:27:56 AM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17639

The ones that are running without a hitch! Believe it or not, the ones I put together myself with pure clone parts run the most trouble free and I demand a lot from my work computers. They are loaded up with several SCSI boards with numerous drives, network peripherals and tons of memory to do the graphics work I do. But then they run NT instead of the consumer OS. NT is a bitch to install, but once its up and running its pretty hard to kill. I owned a couple cheap refurbed consumer IBM boxes at home that I wound up giving away to family members and friends and even though they are over five years old and several generations back, these completely unsophisticated users haven't been able to kill them or even any of the stuff on them. They can still upgrade all their software without a hitch. I can't say the same for the HPs that I've sold or given away. I've been called in numerous times to upgrade the old buggers and it took some serious work-arounds to get them up and running.