[ale] Sub $250 PCs

[Christopher Fowler]

On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 18:20 -0500, Bob Toxen wrote:
> I've had repeated bad experiences from Ginstar that cost me
> substantial
> time and money and refuse to deal with them any more.

I've bought many boxen from them.  I did have a strain of boxes that
had blow caps.  But those boxes seem to have lasted me well enough.  I
still have 2 2Us that are operational and many tower systems that are
still running.

If you read my earlier post about an oops that is happening on a Ginstar
box.  I've had it in service a little over 2 years.  I do have 2 boxes
that I've had in service since after 9/11/01.  But I have 1 box that is
a P75 that I've had in service since around 1997.   Same hard disk.  I
think the only thing I replaced was a bad power supply.

For desktops I will still by Ginstar.  For servers I might shy away from
it simply because of the bad cap issue I faced.  I can't really blame
them but the PC industry as a whole for that.