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Skriven 2006-11-29 19:23:00 av WAYNE CHIRNSIDE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av ROSS CASSELL
Ärende: Re: dumpster diving
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-=> ROSS CASSELL wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 RC> Hello WAYNE!

 RC> 29 Nov 06 14:15, you wrote to me:

 RC>> Wayne related to the fact that his Western Digital HDD had a
 RC>> rebate that he didnt submit for, was that hdd an inferior drive?

 WC> What exactly does "related to a fact" mean so I can properly address
 WC> the inquiry?

 WC> Assuming I understand what you are getting at I've efforted
 WC> clarifying that to death.

 RC> Maurice inferred that items that have a rebate are inferior, I was
 RC> driving at the fact that that is not the case with the statement above
 RC> and the other examples I provided, which I did not requote into this
 RC> message.

I can't speak to the quality of items offered with rebate
never having purchased any but the Canon bubblejet printer
for which the rebate never showed up.

nice inexpensive unit for my needs and Linux compliant.
Expired after 11 years but no complaints.

 RC> However, did you know that in the time frame that that Gateway you
 RC> fished out of the garbage was made, Gateway was in one of their lowest
 RC> of low spots in quality and reliability?

 I  think perhaps you color how I came into possession of the unit a bit.
 I was walking my dog and spotted the unit sitting atop some papers.
 Right at the very top.
 I didn't go fishing for it.
 I didn't dive for it.
 I simply took the dog the 1/2 block home, returned picking it off the top.
 The case wasn't even dirty.
 
 There was a printer and monitor as well and likely both of those worked
 as the home where it was tossed had an owner whch drives a late model
Mercedes.
 Though I didn't return for either monitor, printer or keyboard as just
 lugging the full tower ATX case the 1/2 block was all I could manage.
 You know, now that I think about it there might have been more there but it
never occured
 to me to go fishing or diving.
 Perhaps you've had good returns in such efforts?
 
 People with money upgrade such items as it wouldn't even play a DVD 
 in the Windows OS.
 Oh yeah, they'd pulled the hard drive presumably because it was good or had 
 operating system and data on it.
 Looking at it now it remains clean.

 Works fine here for Linux however.
 You can keep the latest and greatest.
 Despite what you say about it being of low quality I find precisely the
opposite
 to be true.

 How could you know anyway?
 These machines were customised for individual customers with what they call
their
 custom configurator.
 Each system built for individual customers could be different in a great many
respects.

Thus I was able to enter the custom serial number and retrieve each and every 
 detail which remains on Gateways support web site.
 They retain that database to this very day.
 Seems an indication of quality support.

About a dozen HTML files covering everything from the setup utility, I/O
 card, motherboard jumpers, USB ports, chipsets and pretty much anything you
could name
 or ask for.
 I downloaded those HTML files to the local hard drive here.

BTW the motherboard is standard Intel.
 It's labeled Jabil BX however Jabil is the local to St. Petersburg company
which makes
 Intel motherboards and it's identical.
 
 I'd been planning on getting a duplicate off of Ebay.
 Lots of them seem to come from Tampa municiple government offices
 which sell them off regularly in lots of 1,6.12 or more presumably
 as county government upgrades.

 That they do so well in Hillborough county government service they are only
just
 now coming on the used market in tested good condition also appears
 to speak well of them.
 Of course they dump a *lot* more later model H.P.'s and Dells off as well for
a little less
 or comperable money it seems.
 Comparisons with similar BX motherboards offered by name brands shows this one
to
 be superior and offering more flexibility, extra slot, allows for mixed size
 DIMM memory modules, standard unbuffered 168 pin RAM or ECC parity RAM.
 Features usually found on server class systems such as the H.P.
 Vectra line which I find  to be inferior. 
 
 Even a plain and stripped BX Jabil or Intel motherboard I saw advertised used
 elsewhere commanded a 38 dollar asking price used.
 Someone seems to differ from you in their evaluation of the merits of this
board.

 
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