Re: Any good repair shop recommendations?

Always liking to be a controversial individual, I may as well wade into
the fray :)

Scott Walde wrote:

> Brian Borley wrote:
>
>> Now who's trashing Computer Trends. I bought three computers from
>> them and every one was a good buy.
>>
>
> I don't understand the first sentence. Was it meant to be a
> question? It was me who is "trashing" Computer Trends after they
> basically accused me of stealing. I explained the whole story in my
> first post.

I have to say that as far as the CT guy accusing Scott of stealing, I
have to side with Scott, and would expect to hear that Scott got a full
apology from him.

> For the record: in my opinion eMachines are the worst built computers
> available. Refurbished eMachines are downright scary.

I had a used eMachine that I set up as a router, running Mandrake 10.
It performed flawlessly for about 3 years, after which the hard drive
died. I didn't notice that, as it continued to perform flawlessly for
several more months as a router, other than it was not doing any
logging. That machine has now been replaced, but it has a new hard
drive and is performing DHCP tasks for part of my network (about 200
clients) as we speak.

> Many years ago I knew the manager at Computer Trends, and he told me
> the return rate on them. I don't remember the number now, but it was
> extremely high compared to the industry average and my experience.

Obviously, eMachines have poor QA, and you get the luck of the draw on
weather the machine is a lemon or not.

BUZ
Received on Wed Feb 7 09:52:14 2007