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- From: root@sanger.chem.nd.edu (Doctor Math)
- Subject: Re: Memory upgrades for R4000 Indigos
- Message-ID: <1992Jul26.045223.11600@news.nd.edu>
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- Organization: University of Notre Dame
- References: <1992Jul25.163158.19280@donau.et.tudelft.nl>
- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 04:52:23 GMT
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- steve@europa.esd.sgi.com (Loopy - the spineless boy) writes:
- > It was definitely *NOT* our intent to ream the customer with custom SIMMS.
- > Even SGI's lowest cost machine designs refuse to make big sacrifices on
- > performance in order to cut the cost a little. No one here likes to design
- > mediocre machines.
-
- I'm certainly not going to say that the machines are inferior from a
- technological standpoint. I am going to wonder about the sales folk, though.
- I have a fax from SGI quoting prices for machines. I want to get an R4000
- Indigo or a Crimson without a disk, RAM, or a monitor (we are retiring some
- elderly 4D/20s). The cover page pointed out that the warranty would be
- void if ANY third-party stuff of ANY kind was installed. This is a little
- hard to swallow when SGI quotes $8000 for 16 MB of Crimson RAM that is less
- than 25% of that from a third-party. The cover page also pointed out that
- they don't think the 4D/20 disk will go into a Crimson or R4000 (probably
- physically true; I had an external box in mind.).
- Anyway, the quote ended up being for an R4000 Indigo with Entry graphics
- and a Crimson in Server configuration, which means no graphics board, no
- keyboard, and no mouse, but did include some RAM. It also mentioned that
- I would have to buy the extended warranty or PAY THEM OVER $800 to install
- the damn thing! What's so special about setting up a Crimson that I would
- be incapable? I have had no problem putting the audio upgrade in my 4D/35 or
- performing any of the other hardware fiddling that has been required;
- hardware used to be my JOB, but as far as SGI is concerned, I could be an
- absent-minded professor who just wants to use some software package for a
- thesis or some such thing.
- I'm steamed enough about these things to consider asking legal advice on
- whether SGI can impose these kinds of restrictions. If "the customer is
- always right", why won't they sell me what I want to buy, configured the
- way I want to buy it?
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