On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 11:31 -0700, Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> Wolfgang....add Acer to that list. I worked on a friend of my
> son's Acer for him. The bios was so dumbed down as to be almost
> useless (and hard to get at with a non-standard key combo to
> activate it), the mb had only a single channel IDE controller
> and the sound card was hooked up to the cdrom, but wouldn't play
> the analog sound coming to it over the wire hookup. All-in-all
> a pretty cheesy box.
The difference is:
Acer is not regarded as a High Quality (and therefore much more
expensive) machine. At least here in Germany IBM and HP built up
a myth that they are the only "real machines when it comes to
business". They put some higher figures on their price-tags and
their sales personnel gets trained to wear their noses way up
high.
So this made the right impression on all the brass in the
companies and they ordered "the right machines". If you
suggested to buy a Highscreen (a minor brand with just ordinary
computers) you got kicked because "we want quality, we buy IBM
(HP)".
Enough OT...
wobo
--
GPG-Fingerprint: FE5A 0891 7027 8D1B 4E3F 73C1 AD9B D732 A698 82EE
For Public Key mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: GPG-Request
-------------------------------------------------------------------
ISDN4LINUX-FAQ -- Deutsch: http://www.wolf-b.de/i4l/i4lfaq-de.html
