alen@dasys1.uucp (Alen Kalati) (05/03/90)
I know that Northgate is a very nice system to run DOS on, but I also know that they have some problems running SCO XENIX with some of the multi-ports in the market. -- Alen Kalati Big Electric Cat Public UNIX ..!cmcl2!hombre!dasys1!alen
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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
fish@gemed.com (Mark Fisher) (05/03/90)
I don't know much about Northgate Computers. I just ordered a 386/25 4meg, 64kcache, 110 meg ESDI, and VGA1024 from Gateway. I am very happy with the machine. I rank the quality 9 on a scale of 10. I got the manuals for every card in the machine. The case is solidly built and the motherboard is a micronics. On the negative side, it took 3 weeks to get the machine, but it was sent second day Fedex. On the whole thumbs up for Gateway. Before ordering from Gateway, I ordered a 386 from PC Brand. In short, a horror story. The machine came without a hard drive, the monitor was a 2a not the 3d I ordered. The invoice said there was a hard disk and the monitor was a 3d. The following is NOT an exaggeration. It took about 25 phone calls to get the matter corrected. Getting a manager on the phone is next to impossible. Even if you do it won't do any good. A manager and a supervisor both made empty promises to me all three times I talked to them. To summerize they do not reliably do what they say they are going to do. Thumbs down for PC Brand. -- // Mark M. Fisher // fish@gemed.ge.com // uunet!crdgw1!gemed!fish // sun!sunbrew!gemed!fish
emm@iczer-1.UUCP (Edward M. Markowski) (05/06/90)
Thanks to everyone that replyed to my questions about Northgate.
The posting created some compition(sp?) so I have not yet decided
which system to get.
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