bradley@cs.utexas.edu (Bradley L. Richards) (05/03/90)
In article <5412@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> wag1@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (d.wagley) writes: >In article <511616@nstar.UUCP>, larry@nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder) writes: >> In article <295@iczer-1.UUCP>, emm@iczer-1.UUCP (Edward M. Markowski) writes: >> > >> > Is Northgate a good company to do business with? >> >> For the record, we have purchased several Northgate machines, and rank them >> as expensive (as compared to what you could get from other vendors, with >> "fair" support). > >I have several friends who have purchased this configuration from >Northgate and are very happy. I thought that the price was very good >given that the machine seems to be built pretty solid. A lot of the >cheaper systems I've looked at were flimsy. > >Does Larry or anybody else have suggestions on where to go for a better >value in a similar configuration? In a word: Gateway. I was looking around for a 386 system last fall. After many weeks of shopping I narrowed the choices to Northgate (slightly better quality system, but more expensive) and Gateway (which uses all nme-brand parts, but lacks some of the polish). Feeling poor, I decided on the Gateway. I had a couple of infant mortality failures, but their support has been outstanding (new motherboard overnight, no questions asked). But I did tell Gateway to keep their keyboard and ordered one from Northgate-- for my money Northgate keyboards can't be beat. You can't go wrong with either company. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bradley L. Richards uucp: cs.utexas.edu!bradley bradley@cs.utexas.edu CompuServe: 75216,1744 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------