Good evening everyone,
This past week must have been computer-workstation die-off or something. My
wife's computer became infected with the PC Performance Virus. This thing is
a nasty as it locked her out of many of her programs, caused a black screen
to appear when the monitor was turned on and the computer booted in to
Windows, messages from Twitter and God only knows where else to be displayed
and wouldn't allow her to see any of her data files.
The tech we took it to said that this is a very malicious virus and is
difficult to clean. You might as well say that the computer was "Dead on
arrival" at the shop with no chance of being revived. We have one HP and two
Dell machines here. The machine that was infected was a Dell desktop. This
HP I use is rock solid. Mary has had a Gateway and a Dell both of which died
an early death. The Gateway was fried several years ago due to an
over-loaded surge protector. The virus killed the Dell. Here's hoping the
next machine we get will withstand anything thrown at it and will last her
for many years. Surge protectors and viruses aside both of these brands are
great and we'll get a new desktop that's one of them. Here's hoping everyone
is able to resolve their computer and workstation woes in the coming weeks.
Peter Donahue
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Crouch" <[email protected]>
To: "cf-talk" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 6:41 PM
Subject: Re: Workstation recommendations
I got an Asus laptop last year. It was RMAed back to them 4 times before
they finally sent me an exchange. The exchange arrived with a broken screen.
So it had to be RMAed back. It was the worst customer service I have ever
dealt with. You will probably get a lot of different opinions on brands, but
I will never buy another Asus product.
Dan
>For workstations, I have always been happy with Dell.
>
>If you go the laptop route, either Dell or Toshiba (high end model.. not
>the
>satellite).
>
>
>My HP desktop at work died last night. This morning we took the hard drive
>out and put it into another box whose drive had died a couple months ago.
>It
>worked at first, but after about 20 minutes it croaked too.
>
>Anyway, I'll be shopping for a new desktop and just wondered what brands
>people recommend these days. I'll probably stay away from HP and plan to
>stay with a Windows machine. I run CF Developer, SQL Server Mgt Studio, CF
>Builder, Adobe Creative Suite (primarily DW and PS), MS Office, and various
>browsers and other tools.
>
>Dell?
>Lenovo?
>Asus (seems to be mostly gaming oriented)?
>Acer?
>Gateway?
>Others?
>
>Thanks,
>
>-Matt
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