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From: "Brian L. Naylor" <jones@anakin.transy.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 16:56:34 -0400
Organization: University of Kentucky Computing Services
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Mark Evans wrote:
 
> The problem is that people do not necessarely buy "a video card",
> they buy "a computer" and may have little choice about what
> video card they get. How many vendors give the details of the
> video cards in their systems.

If you're at all concerned with what you're spending your money on, 
you'll find out what's in the system!  If I can't get a vendor to
tell me *exactly* what's in a system, I won't buy it, and I'll go
find a vendor with more brains.

Besides, most people who just go out to Best Buy and buy whatever
the salesmen tell them is a good computer aren't interested in
this sort of discussion anyway.

-- 
Brian L. Naylor
jones@anakin.transy.edu
http://www.transy.edu/~jones