Recently a nice survey about service found Apple, IBM at the top and Sony bringing up the rear. No need to redo such research, but your list was in the top half.
Bob
anyone wanna play the game of ranking the order of manufacturers on which you believe is the best overall (to the worst overall). still experiencing dissonance over what i should buy! (possible choices: gateway, dell, toshiba, HP, compaq)

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