On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Jeff Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ted: My hardware supplier sells Asus to business users (including me). > I have been very impressed with them as of late. I would be interested > to hear your experience that puts them in a second - tier. Not trying > to pick a fight ;^) I just value your opinion. >
I have a few ASUS components around here (a really nice monitor, for example) but no experience with them on a business-to-business basis, so I can't speak to their quality, warranty, reliability or repair records. I'm more familiar with them as an OEM manufacturer. So, mostly I was shying away from endorsing them due to my lack of experience. Frankly, all the components are manufactured and assembled overseas, and come from a common market of parts, some of lesser quality and some more. It's a question, for me, of how strict the quality standards were in that process, so nothing breaks, and what the support infrastructure is like, if something breaks and I need it fixed. I've had both situations with Lenovo and Dell and have been pleased with the results. Lenovo is one I watch carefully, though. Just the last couple of ThinkPads have lacked the IBM logo. I am concerned their quality could slip. Not too long ago, I needed to replace a failing fan on a ThinkPad T60. The repair manual, downloadable, was perfect, describing every step and correctly illustrating every screw, flange and wiring harness that needed removal to get to the part out and replaced. Few manufacturers supply that level of engineering, and I appreciate it. HP is a company that is reporting a lot of financial difficulties. I have concerns. Their consumer-grade machines seem overly plastic and flimsy. Their business-class support was top-tier, but their CEOs announcing new strategic directions and then reversing themselves leave my distrusting them. Of course, the first thing I do with machines that come with Windows is blank the hard drive and install Linux, so I can't address the bloatware issues. And if I was to make recommendations based on Consumer Reports ratings, it would be all Apple. A good 3rd-party supplier (smartdog.com is my local fave) could deliver these pre-installed with Win7, sans bloatware, but many companies would think that too alien. (Personally, I'd find it distasteful to put Windows on a Mac, but I digress... ;) -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/cacw6n4usvcedhoqa9xcbt-gxeh_ywp65o2gysokk63zpvu8...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
