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John Larkin
- Jan 1, 1970
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But now they do.
John
John
Unfortunate experience ?
Fry's and a day spent assembling it.John said:Yeah. I just bought two new "Precision" workstations that are a
mechanical mess. The case design is awful and the floppies are
unreliable due to mechanical stupidities. Their support people told me
to reinstall Windows, the single time I got a human to respond.
The electronics looks fine, but they garbled the packaging pretty
badly. The support is either email robots or people in India reading
scripts.
Who makes good PCs these days?
John
John said:Yeah. I just bought two new "Precision" workstations that are a
mechanical mess. The case design is awful and the floppies are
unreliable due to mechanical stupidities. Their support people told me
to reinstall Windows, the single time I got a human to respond.
The electronics looks fine, but they garbled the packaging pretty
badly. The support is either email robots or people in India reading
scripts.
Who makes good PCs these days?
John
Yeah. I just bought two new "Precision" workstations that are a
mechanical mess. The case design is awful and the floppies are
unreliable due to mechanical stupidities. Their support people told me
to reinstall Windows, the single time I got a human to respond.
The electronics looks fine, but they garbled the packaging pretty
badly. The support is either email robots or people in India reading
scripts.
Who makes good PCs these days?
John
Alas, I have had much the same problem with Dell - will never use them
again. Cheap, with what sounds like good warranties. But having spent 5
hours on the phone convincing some malaysian that my hard drive was dead
(smoke came out of it) *before* I got any on-site technical support, I
now know their support aint what it purports to be. We bought 6 dell PCs
(2000), and within a year had similar problems with all of them. In the
end we gave up on Dells *free* tech support, and paid a local to do it
for us, as it was cheaper (our time aint free)
Cheers
Terry
PS what was the brand of good DCCTs you mentioned?
Fry's and a day spent assembling it.
John said:Danfysik. They are parts-per-million accurate. The low-end units, the
head with electronics but no power supply or burden resistor, are
something like $500. The US rep is GMW.
Julian Bergoz makes some extreme stuff.
LEM makes some hall+feedback sensors, pretty good but not as accurate.
I designed a DCCT once, for SLAC. They didn't buy any.
John
John said:I've had bad experiences with the Fry's in Palo Alto. They practically
strip-search you on the way out to verify all your stuff against the
receipt. And they repackage returns and sell them as new. I bought an
inkjet printer and when I opened the box, the cartrige was installed
and there was ink everywhere. It had obviously been repacked.
John
Yeah. I just bought two new "Precision" workstations that are a
mechanical mess. The case design is awful and the floppies are
unreliable due to mechanical stupidities. Their support people told me
to reinstall Windows, the single time I got a human to respond.
The electronics looks fine, but they garbled the packaging pretty
badly. The support is either email robots or people in India reading
scripts.
Who makes good PCs these days?
John
I've had bad experiences with the Fry's in Palo Alto. They practically
strip-search you on the way out to verify all your stuff against the
receipt. And they repackage returns and sell them as new. I bought an
inkjet printer and when I opened the box, the cartrige was installed
and there was ink everywhere. It had obviously been repacked.
John
John said:I've had bad experiences with the Fry's in Palo Alto. They practically
strip-search you on the way out to verify all your stuff against the
receipt. And they repackage returns and sell them as new. I bought an
inkjet printer and when I opened the box, the cartrige was installed
and there was ink everywhere. It had obviously been repacked.
Yes, Fry's sucks for some things. I've had issues with their 'new'
printers too.
Much better to buy the components online and build the system yourself.
Or, better yet, hire a college kid to come in and do it for you. It's
trivial, takes about 2 hours to put one together, and another couple of
hours to install XP and the drivers.
...Who makes good PCs these days?
Yeah. I just bought two new "Precision" workstations that are a
mechanical mess. The case design is awful and the floppies are
unreliable due to mechanical stupidities. Their support people told me
to reinstall Windows, the single time I got a human to respond.
The electronics looks fine, but they garbled the packaging pretty
badly. The support is either email robots or people in India reading
scripts.
Who makes good PCs these days?
Yes, Fry's sucks for some things. I've had issues with their 'new'
printers too.
Much better to buy the components online and build the system yourself.
Or, better yet, hire a college kid to come in and do it for you. It's
trivial, takes about 2 hours to put one together, and another couple of
hours to install XP and the drivers.
But now they do.
John
John said:Yeah. I just bought two new "Precision" workstations that are a
mechanical mess.
The case design is awful and the floppies are
unreliable due to mechanical stupidities. Their support people told me
to reinstall Windows, the single time I got a human to respond.
The electronics looks fine, but they garbled the packaging pretty
badly. The support is either email robots or people in India reading
scripts.
Who makes good PCs these days?