Re: Cheap Advent Media centres back in stock at Morgan

[Kevin Hawkins <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Interesting - mine was in exactly the same condition but a phone call to
Morgan resulted in a next day collection and a delivery of what appeared
to be  brand new one. Morgan indicated they would be claiming off their
carrier - although it was a bad packing issue IMHO.  I am pleased with
the replacement unit overall although I have a couple of 'quirks' to
sort out but I think that is more a MCE thing than a PC problem (unit
loses IR communication until MCE relaunched).   One thing I would say
though is that they are noisy (and run very hot) - definitely not a
living room candidate.   Kevin

White, Peter wrote:

>I wasn't impressed.  Their version of a 'factory refurb' leaves a lot
to be
>desired; mine had dirty finger prints all over it, scratches on the
case, 1
>chassis panel hanging off, and was packaged very, very badly.  The PC
was
>just banging around in the box with one of the styrene inserts missing,
>which probably accounts for all the corrupt sectors on the HD.  In
fairness
>to Morgan they refunded me without question, but they really should be
more
>thorough with what they're sending out.
>
>Keyboard is a bit ugly too, IMHO.
>
>Having said all that, if yours isn't knackered like mine, it's pretty
good
>value, and I was impressed with Media Centre - it was a bit slow, but I
>think most of the issues were due to the knacked HD.
>
>Pete
>
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