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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Spots who wrote (1555)	6/26/1998 1:16:00 PM
From: Street Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

ESC Technologies offers the following: (ZeusPaul did a configuration #reply-4971650) In Win 300 ps Asus P2B mobo Corsair Ram retail PII chip IBM HD CD Rom/floppy drive Win 98 etc. I would go with them. They will do the testing and assembly. S.W.

To: Spots who wrote (1555)	6/26/1998 1:35:00 PM
From: Howard R. Hansen	Respond to of 14778

Subject: Recommending a box maker. Spots I know you don't place much faith in PC Magazine but in the July 1998 edition of PC Magazine they rated 25 desktop and 15 notebook vendors for service and reliability. They gave Dell, Hewlett-Packard and IBM top rating in the desktop category and Dell and Gateway top rating in the notebook category. Sean Smith recommends Dell, Gateway, and Micron Electronics to his friends. See post 1538 Message 5010699 Full Disclosure: Except for an XT I have never bought a computer from any of these companies.

To: Spots who wrote (1555)	6/26/1998 2:49:00 PM
From: Sean W. Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Hey Spots, check out my post to zeus on this subject. For relatives the answer IMO is never to build one for them. Far too many headaches and phone calls.... Honestly: dell, gateway, and micron all build good machines and provide good (relative) support of their products. They don't go ballistic with tons of BS software like compaq, acer, and packard bell. Local shops are often good for these users but I can never get past the cheap components they often use. All of these have factory outlets where you can buy left over machines and brand new ones that were sent back in the 30 day period for a discount. I have bought 6 returned microns in the last 6 months for friends and all have been very happy and don't ever call me to complain. Sean