From: "Robert Comer" 

> I'll price out the various options and see what looks good.  Dells
> usually seem to find the sweet spot.

I only have one older Dell -- I bet they've gotten better since we got that
one.  (it's reliable, but it's very hard to work one, the case is small,
the cables tight and such.)

> I spec mine out and have the local shop build them, I like the service
> afterwards when things go horribly wrong.

Makes sense to me and maybe that's what I'll do, especially now with
Lenovo. We're pretty small PC purchasing wise, so I doubt if I get as much
satisfaction from a local dealer...

- Bob Comer


"Richard B."  wrote in message
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> On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 09:32:03 -0500, "Robert Comer"
>  wrote:
>
>>He's a salesman now, so you know how that goes...
>
> Sales is a tough job, so it's good he's got a decent product to push.
>
>>We don't have anything like that here, but if I were buying another server
>>right now, it'd have to be a whole lot cheaper for me to consider another
>>brand.  Same for laptops.
>
> I'll price out the various options and see what looks good.  Dells
> usually seem to find the sweet spot.
>
>>Now their desktop PC's, I'm not so wild about, nothing special there, I
>>can
>>build better ones myself.  That's what we mostly have here, but that's
>>more
>>because they're not quite as messy from the store as a consumer brand PC.
>
> I spec mine out and have the local shop build them, I like the service
> afterwards when things go horribly wrong.
>
> - Richard

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