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- From: huot@cray.com (Tom Huot)
- Subject: Re: Are all Gateway CrystalSCAN monitors bad? YES YES YES!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.114706.23821@walter.cray.com>
- Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
- References: <92232.151928ROMAN@wvnvm.wvnet.edu> <1992Aug20.131459.21706@walter.cray.com> <1992Aug25.003641.3121@pool.info.sunyit.edu>
- Date: 25 Aug 92 11:47:05 CDT
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- [Much text deleted]
- [Someone else wrote:]
- >>>Has anyone else had any failures with the CrystalSCAN 1024 monitor?
-
- [I wrote]
- >>My first one lasted almost a year to the day. The second lasted less
- >>than 4 months. They told me the same thing about the warranty. I think
- >>they are selling JUNK! I ended up going to a local CompuAdd store
- >>and bought a 15" flat screen monitor for approx. $500 instead of
- >>paying to get that other piece of junk fixed. I wouldn't buy another
- >>thing from Gateway right now.
- >>With the quality problems they have been having recently, I would say
- >>the amount of business they do will drop somewhat. Maybe then they
- >>will be able to handle customer complaints. I would not recommend
- >>doing business with them these days.
- >>
- >>Another dissatisfied customer...
- >>--
- >>_____________________________________________________________________________
- >>Tom Huot
- >>huot@cray.com
- >>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- >
- >When picking on Gateway 2000 products, it would help to clarify what you are
- >having problems with. This is NOT a flame, just a suggestion to help others.
- >My Crystal Scan 1024 is actually a Mag Computronics 1448, which I've had for
- >about 18 months. My only complaint is the slow refresh rate, which wasn't
- >too bad for the monitors being sold at that time. That's beside the point.
- >The point is that Gateway uses different suppliers. The 386DX-33 I read in
- >a magazine review used a motherboard that had faster RAM, faster cache, and
- >had a higher memory capacity than the one that I ordered. Crystal Scan is
- >just a name that Gateway puts on whichever monitor is their "choice of the
- >month".
- >
- Mine were also MAG Computronics 1448 non-interlaced. And from what I
- heard, MAG makes all of their monitors, including the 15". They do sell
- other brands as options though. I hope that clears it up.
-
-
- --
- _____________________________________________________________________________
- Tom Huot
- huot@cray.com
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