Northgate computer
Mark Fisher
fish at gemed.com
Fri May 4 00:57:59 AEST 1990
I don't know much about Northgate Computers. I just ordered a 386/25
4meg, 64kcache, 110 meg ESDI, and VGA1024 from Gateway. I am very
happy with the machine. I rank the quality 9 on a scale of 10. I got
the manuals for every card in the machine. The case is solidly built
and the motherboard is a micronics. On the negative side, it took 3
weeks to get the machine, but it was sent second day Fedex. On the
whole thumbs up for Gateway.
Before ordering from Gateway, I ordered a 386 from PC Brand. In
short, a horror story. The machine came without a hard drive, the
monitor was a 2a not the 3d I ordered. The invoice said there was a
hard disk and the monitor was a 3d. The following is NOT an
exaggeration. It took about 25 phone calls to get the matter
corrected. Getting a manager on the phone is next to impossible.
Even if you do it won't do any good. A manager and a supervisor both
made empty promises to me all three times I talked to them. To
summerize they do not reliably do what they say they are going to do.
Thumbs down for PC Brand.
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