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From: "Gordon L. Scott" <Gordon@apis.demon.co.uk>
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: Thu, 25 Apr 96 08:24:57 GMT
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Message-ID: <830420697.snews.post.Gordon@apis.demon.co.uk>
References: <slrn4nlfam.2lm.root@marsgrp.tamu.edu> <4lh1q9$kt@leasion.demon.co.uk> <317D4402.47D3D8C9@anakin.transy.edu> <stephenkDqCqEL.9nA@netcom.com> <317E9B33.68E96DEC@lambert.org>
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In article <317E9B33.68E96DEC@lambert.org>
terry@lambert.org "Terry Lambert" writes:
> Reviews are only as good as the reviewer. If written from a
> user perspective, you are typically taking the word of someone
> with as little real information as yourself, who likes
> something because it works for him.
By the time the magazine review hits the streets, around two or
three months after they tested it, the machine has probably
already been changed by the manufacturer. If it hasn't, it's
probably no longer competitive.
In the high street and local dealer area of the market, at least,
often the sales people actually don't *know* what's inside. They
know what the brochure says and they may know what was in the
batch they received last week, but....
Regards,
--
Gordon Scott Gordon@apis.demon.co.uk Compuserve 100332,3310
Gordon@multitone.co.uk
Basingstoke Beekeeper Beekeeper@apis.demon.co.uk