ubuntu 7.10

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 12/31/07, Ken Moffat <kmoffat at drizzle.com> wrote:
> Kurt Wall wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 09:13:37AM -0800, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> >
> >> I always found ECS's name truly ironic.  "Elitegroup Computer Systems"
> >> Their products were anything but elite.
> >>
> >
> > Perhaps they're in the elite group of computer systems that don't work?
> >
> > Kurt
> >
>
> I might agree, but the price was certainly right, and the fact that when
> the power supply went out on my old emachines (speaking of elite!) it
> took the m/b with it (crud!!) had me looking for a very cheap fix.
> Mostly it's a window xp machine, and works okay for that, in spite of
> the questionable ati video. (combo rs482 m/b and amd+3200 chip for about
> $50)

In my experience, if hardware is cheap, you get what you pay for.
Vendors have to cut corners somewhere to make it cheap.  That means
lower performance, lower quality components, less QA, or more often
all of the above.   Keep in mind that getting something working in
WinXP is the lowest common denominator, and screams that they've done
very limited QA.

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