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- From: alan@StarConn.com (Alan Deikman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Zeos (and others) general flame
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.005517.22694@StarConn.com>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 00:55:17 GMT
- References: <GERRY.92Aug24171444@onion.cmu.edu> <1992Aug25.142846.28596@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu>
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- In article <GERRY.92Aug24171444@onion.cmu.edu>, gerry@cmu.edu (Gerry Roston) writes:
- >Buy a local bus 486 for < $2000, what a deal!
- >
- >The above is a paraphrase of a recent Zeos add. Of course, said
- >system comes with a 40 MB drive and a monchrome monitor. Now,
- >seriously, what type of idiot would buy such a system? Zeos, and
- >other companies that run similar adds, should stop this crap, and show
- >properly configured systems. The other thing about the Zeos ad that
- >bothers me is the hype and huopla associated with theie Option #4
- >package, which for most other companies, is the baseline
- >configuration.
-
- I have the following comments:
-
- 1) What other companies offer a 200MB hard disk system with 1024x768
- video as a *base* system?
-
- 2) There are many applications for the "base" system configuration
- which you say an "idiot" would buy. For example, why would I want
- to pay for VGA on a print server? Or a non-Windows based order
- entry station? You should check out the real world before
- throwing a tantrum.
-
- >
- >Basically, Zeos is over priced, has slimey ads and I will never buy
- >from them...
-
- So don't buy from them.
-
- Just out of curiosity, exactly what in their ads do you find "slimey?"
- I read the ads, and they have virtually all the information I need to
- make a decision with, in a convenient spreadsheet form that even a
- moron can understand. The object is not to piss you off for some
- obscure reason but to minimize the number of times a buyer has to
- make a phone call for information.
-
-
- Alan Deikman
- Znyx ASD, Inc.
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