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- From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Christopher Mauritz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: ADVOCACY: Re: Porky pig.
- Message-ID: <9301217343@ritz.mordor.com>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 13:05:51 GMT
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- Warwick Allison (warwick@cs.uq.oz.au) wrote:
- OS/2> craig@yonder.equinox.gen.nz (Craig Shore) writes:
- OS/2> >Warwick Allison writes:
- OS/2>
- OS/2> >>In my experience, cheap PC-clones are flaky. You STILL get what you pay
- OS/2> >>for, even with the low prices of The Clones.
- OS/2>
- OS/2> >They're still guarenteed the same, 1 or 2 years (depending on the part
- OS/2> > you're talking about), so if it busts, get it fixed or replaced
- OS/2> > for free.
- OS/2>
- OS/2> Unfortunately, computers aren't like cars, despite the silly analogies
- OS/2> I've been hearing lately. With cars, if everything works fine in the
- OS/2> first two years, nothings likely to suddenly fail for another ten.
- OS/2>
- OS/2> But with computers, a flakey component can work PERFECTLY for any amount
- OS/2> of time then DING - suddenly a chip pops out of its socket (ok, easy
- OS/2> to fix). Or a dry joint finally develops just under the spacebar that
- OS/2> you bash everytime you fire a smart-bomb.
- OS/2>
- OS/2> So, while this doesn't have much to do with "advocacy", it's worth
- OS/2> considering when comparing warranties.
-
- I really wish you would lay off the complete misinformation. Any
- electrical engineering major (I was one for 3 years) will tell you
- that over 90% of the time if an electronic component is bad it
- will fail quickly. That is why most reasonable manufacturers these
- days ('cept Atari...but they're not reasonable) will burn in the
- machine for 72 hours or so.
-
- Regards,
-
- Chris
-
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