----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Roberts" < Subject: Re: OT: CD-RW Question
> Very true. There's a lot to be said for having a local place to go to when > something goes wrong. But there are alternatives to CompUSA. There are plenty of > small, independent copmuter shops around; you just have to dig a bit (or ask > around) to find *good* ones. I've found a good one here in Rochester. I mainly > buy memory and CPUs from them because they know me well enough to believe me > when I have a problem (a mail order place will usually insist you damaged it > during installation and you're SOL). We don't have CompUSA up here, but we do have a couple of cheap and dirty computer outfits that run nationwide big boxes. My experience to date is that they sell nicely specified crap. Sure, the machine I just bought used from a friend (a Techtronics built for the Canucks in the crowd) has a PIII 667 chipset, so is fairly fast, but it came with a crapola video card, a junk sound card and an ugly monitor. The system BIOS is good, but the motherboard is garbage. I am hoping the case it came in doesn't have a flakey power supply. So far, I have replaced ~everything~ other than the box and motherboard. William Robb - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
