GadgetsRme
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Re: Dell rejects spyware charge
said by gracie  :to my mind after reading this long thread, the best thing to do with any new machine from one of these vendors is probably just reformat and reinstall everything you want, but in these days of having to fight for an xp cd and software on disk rather than a recovery image (which includes crap) that option is not so easy. Or you could build your own. Or buy a custom built from a local shop.
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Mele20
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Hilo, HI | But the local shops have pretty much been run out of business by the likes of Dell and HP. |
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CylonRed
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Bloom County | Maybe in Hawaii trhey have but not most other cities of any size. |
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jmorlan
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| said by CylonRed :Maybe in Hawaii trhey have but not most other cities of any size. Here in San Francisco Bay Area, there are still a few surviving independent clone dealers, but not nearly as many as there used to be. In their heyday, there were many small shops and huge Computer shows where you could sample from many independent dealers offering deep discounts. That business is just a shadow of its former self now.
I prefer to deal with local businesses, but the people who built my main machine a few years ago went out of business last year. Recently, another dealer I've used in the past could not come close to matching the price on a comparably equipped Dell on a new desktop for my kids. The difference was more than $150 after Dell applied a 20% discount and free shipping.
I bought the Dell and so far it has been great. |
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CylonRed
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| I can count 4-5 shops (one with 2 stores so the # could be 6) that build PC's for personal and business and this is a pretty small market in the US - about the 5th largest in Ohio.
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