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Re[2]: Pentium vs PPro under linux.
Amos Shapira <amos@dsi.co.il> wrote:
> Evgeny Stambulchik wrote:
> > There is a reseller company of Tyan in Israel.
> >
> > I've ordered Tyan's Titan Pro S1662D for work (with single 150MHz CPU
> meantime -
> > waiting for a promisied price drop in March). The MB isn't at the very top
> of
> > sysdoc.pair.com's benchmarks, but not at the bottom, too. At home I have
> Tomcat
> > II (S1562D), Tyan's as well, w/ 2 100MHz CPU's, and I like it.
>
> If you are talking about Pangaea (found them through the Tyan web
> site) then think again. My experience with them was misrable -
> they wouldn't talk to me when they found that I'm interested only
> in the motherboard alone, even though I wanted to buy two or three
> boards. Buying a whole computer from them was also out of the
> question since they were by far more expensive than anyone else.
I don't think they're user friendly, either - but I don't care. It's a job of my
dealer to talk to them; he gets money for that (the original question was about
buying for a _company_).
> The only time they called me back was when the Tomcat was announced
> and (my guess is that) they wanted to dump the old model in my
> direction. Also another shop agread with me that the prices that
> Pangaea are demanding for their boards are outragous (about 30-40%
> above prices in the states as far as I remember).
That's right for the PPro MB's, but probably just because the quantities of
PPro's sent in Israel are rather modest yet; I guess you'll find more or less
same overpricing for any other PPro MB. For pentiums, price diffrence is not
big: $300 against $250; adding freight costs from US would make it equal.
> Though our (Me, Marc's, Yigal's, Evgeny's and Erez') experience
> with RCSystems was far from best, I attribute at least some of it
> to the fact that we were the largest overseas order they ever
> handled, there were blunders with the money which was at least to
> some extent our fault, we generally changed our order many times,
> and they never sent an order that far (so they double-checked the
> parts sent to us, which so far proved to be OK). Maybe someone
> else who just e-mails them an order with credit card details and
> without all the messing we did will fair better with them.
That's true, but it's only part of the story. Even after I'd asked to ship my
stuff separatly, it took few weeks until I desperately asked to cancel my order
and only then they finally shipped it (not to mention at least a dozen phone
calls ending in "we'll call you later" with no other result, etc.)
> I personally will consier ordering from them again if the need
> arises, but without involving so many people.
But never will I.
Evgeny
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