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

To: Sean W. Smith who wrote (1566)	6/30/1998 8:25:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Yes, thanks, Sean. I read your earlier post and it agreed with my assessment (or I agreed with yours, whichever way you want to read it -- maybe this should be a day marked on the calendar for agreement<G>. Rare enough). Dell is probably a bit upscale for one of these (a cousin) but not necessarily for the other (my daughter). I have had bad experience with Dell in the past, but it was a long time ago and maybe they've improved. Also I have an old company Dell in my basement going strong after 6 or 7 years; a pain in the butt to reconfigure, but it does speak well of the basic product. Still, I'd have to know more about recent experiences people have had with them to go back. I don't want to put ANYBODY I know into proprietary designs. My concern about Micron is financial. Will they be around for their warrantee? What about friendly tech support for aging mac converters? Gateway used to deliver machines difficult to upgrade, often with special OEM components (e.g., ATI video cards) for which you couldn't download the manufacturer's drive updates. On the other hand, when something goes wrong, they replace it and even anticipate problems (such as the WDC 1.6 gig disks that failed all over the lot). So I'm up in the air. Looking for specifics. Thanks for your input. Regards, Spots PS. We agree about compaq & pb (though my info is heresay). I don't know about Acer but am willing to take your word for it. I will look into returns.