I invested in a Gateway Performance 650 system some 4 months ago. I purchased an Epson Perfection 610scanner, and a HP Deskjet 840C printer separately to get away from the "cheap" packages offered by most of the popular retailers who include only low performance printers and scanners as a part of the deal. I went for a 30Gb hard drive at small incremental cost. The promise of delivery within 7 days was beaten by 2 days! The system was easy to instal, even for a relative novice. Everythiny worked perfectly first time, with no problems to date. I feel the Gateway machine may not appear on the surface to be amongst the cheapest, but if the price of the cheapo peripherals is taken out of many of the "packages" on offer, the Gateway machine does offer good value for money. The consumers association also rate it as one of the most reliable, whereas the "cheaper package machines" suffer from reliability problems. This is borne out in discussions with friends and acquaintances who would not purchase another "cheap package" system at any price!!!
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Aug 15th, 2000
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