From: John Tserkezis 
Reply-To: Fidonet AVtech Echo 

Bob Lawrence wrote:

>  I bought the new computer of Friday, from a yumcha at Carlingford

  Ah yes.

  A guy from work bought some stuff from them a while back.  Where everyone 
carries two prices, one "stall price" and one "shop
price". Coincedently the 
priced difference was 10%.

>  I just went to plug in the network cable - no LAN card! The bastard!
> I thought $10 extra was too cheap... he's left out the network card.
> 
>  Fiendishly cunning, are these Chinese.

  Naw, that's the norm.  Only the bottom of the barrel all-in-one motherboards 
have them.  They're crap.  By crap I mean they have support only for windows. 
And by "support" I mean they have supplied software that claims
to run under 
windows.  And by "claims", I mean it does something.  By
something, I mean it 
works most of the time.  By "most" I..... you get the idea.

  They do you a favour by forcing you to go out and buy network card.
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