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Technology Stocks : Dell Technologies Inc. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Stefan who wrote (116419)	4/12/1999 12:43:00 AM
From: Don Martini	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

No, Stefan, I've never assembled a computer, so you know a lot more about them than I. However the computer I'm replacing for Betty is a white box I bought for $2,700 2 years ago, a nightmare to maintain, even the assembler can't make it work correctly. His service people play guessing game when they go at it. But you should have listened to the sales talk I got about how it contained the same components as the latest big name machine, and would be trouble free! Son Dan is junking a 2 year old top IBM model that can't be upgraded to his requirements. We've spent near 50K buying the WRONG computers. Before retirement I bought 3 sets of computers for my business and none served the purpose, even had custom software done .... so bad I had to sue them. Expensive AT&Ts became useless when they stopped backing them up. Old story. Stefan, perhaps you can assemble a computer better than anyone, but the question is who will make it run if you become president of HP? I'm not a computer expert; just a customer willing to pay market for the assurance of a world class organization standing by me. (I made radios and test instruments in the old hand-solder days, working from schematic diagrams) I have a $7,000 Toshiba copier which the last serviceman at $80/hour didn't even know how to operate, let alone repair, and they ALWAYS have to make 2 trips. Their usual recommendation is: buy a new Toshiba. The USA standard is: Fix it wrong twice before you get it half right. For $98 Dell gives me 3 worry free years. Many on this thread have become millionaires with Dell. How silly is that? A cynic: Knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. Now that's really silly!