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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!actcsiro!news.nsw.CSIRO.AU!wabbit.its.uow.edu.au!news.ci.com.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!imci3!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.campus.mci.net!news.uky.edu!news 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 Lines: 20 Message-ID: <317D4402.47D3D8C9@anakin.transy.edu> References: <31785BB6.99F81FD@lambert.org> <stephenkDq62u3.7En@netcom.com> <31796B47.5E7DCA65@lambert.org> <stephenkDq791n.KuA@netcom.com> <317ABAFF.5F0DAAAA@lambert.org> <slrn4nlfam.2lm.root@marsgrp.tamu.edu> <4lh1q9$kt@leasion.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: hz6.transy.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b4CALDERA (X11; I; Linux 1.2.13 i586) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:14838 comp.os.linux.development.system:22236 comp.os.linux.x:30136 comp.os.linux.hardware:37161 comp.os.linux.setup:52016 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:824 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3491 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3343 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18086 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