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Re: Desktops with SCSI drives (was Re: Desktops with SCSI RAM?)
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Sun, 28 May 2000 01:47:32 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Bram Lambrecht writes:
> but can I get a workstation with all the other stuff I want (DVD, CD-RW,
> etc..)?
Buying from ANY big name company like Dell or Gateway pretty much means you
will not get everything you want the way you want it. Which is why I never
buy prebuilt computers from places like that for my personal use.
I used to build my own, choosing exactly the components I wanted and putting
them together myself. I don't enjoy that as much now as I used to although
I'm certainly capable of doing it (it isn't rocket science). I'm lucky enough
to have a couple of friends who still _do_ enjoy doing it, so this last time I
bought exactly what I wanted, then delivered it all to my friend and he got a
kick out of putting it all together, in addition to a free lunch (with more to
come) and a free USB TV adapter I wasn't using.
Building or having your own machine built is the only way you will ever get
exactly what you want. Short of that, going with one of the other companies
that Matthew has mentioned may get you closer to getting all the components
you want.
Gateway, in my experience, is much better at giving you wider choices than
Dell. We buy them both where I work and Gateway is more than happy to work
with us on getting the exact video card or drive we want, whereas Dell drags
their feet and claims they'd lose money on a machine doing that. Which is
part of the reason that we've bought from Dell the last two times we've bought
desktops, in addition to slightly lower Gateway price and much greater
timeliness on Gateway's part.
I think this last go-round Dell missed out on about $160,000 worth of business
and more importantly perhaps, made us mad by wasting our time and missing
deadlines for quotes, etc. We make those kind of purchases at least 4 times a
year, if not more often.
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