don't you work at that store in the oakway center? the one that sells an intel pro 100S NIC for $69? i can get those at PC Parts for $42. i also find the staff to be knowledgable and polite. they're the reason i can offer my clients a decent, low cost computer.
all of the "cheap" parts in my computer came from there, and i have yet to find a bad part in their inventory. on the flip side, i bought a motherboard from VOS and a chip from Fry's. i'm not sure which one is bad, but one of them is screwing up my buddy's system. despite the fact that i have no business license, these guys were willing to compromise and actually hold parts for me (although it's probably because i come in there every month or so with $500+ in parts requests...) i also like the fact that, while i get ribbed for buying a "shoddy" part, they respect my reasons for purchasing it. they don't act like know-it-alls, or try to upsell more than once. whoops... propaganda mode kicked in. sorry. On Sun, 2001-11-18 at 17:41, Mr O wrote: > Ever seen how good a cheap stick of RAM works under Linux? It sucks. Screw > the software to make 'broken' memory work. I want good stuff off the bat and > I'll pay the few extra dollars to go Crucial, Mushkin, or other high quality > RAM. Also, PCParts aren't all that good. I only buy there if I need a cheap > part quickly (such as the 'used' 4GB drive from and old Compaq they had. They > didn't even format the drive with the old data. Wouldn't surprise me if they > didn't know how to. It came up with a VFAT error on bootup so I fixed that > and discovered I had Office Professional and Win98 with other personal data > as well. The joy of my excitement when I reformatted the thing. :-) > Enough rants already. > > Later, > > Mr O >
