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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: charles moore who wrote (27732)1/7/1998 1:13:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson  Respond to of 1572637
 
Charles; There are legions also who have bought Dell, IBM, Compaq, AST etc with proprietary motherboards with no upgrade path except a new box or an overdrive, I get them in daily. Next they want to sell me their $5000 box, and faint when I offer $150 or so. Those guys who bought 2-3 years ago take the biggest hit, and they were told their systems were fully upgradeable. There is a scrap yard nearby that gets old boxes and ships them to third world countries, all except IBM, which the third world countries do not want.

Bill



To: charles moore who wrote (27732)1/7/1998 2:01:00 PM
From: Paul Engel  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1572637
 
Charles - Re: "...my point was at what point does one believe
in responsible marketing or requiring the Consumer to read a
Technical Manual or every Major Computer magazine published in the
last 12 months before making a Computer purchase?"

When in doubt, read the manual.

Paul


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