Unimpressed with Matrox

[phaedrus]

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[High_Jumbllama]

This site is not run by Matrox. This site started off as one for enthusiaists though it wanders. Here is a link to their forum. http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/forum/agree.cfm. If you wish to complain, go where they pay attention. Or better yet, complain to CDW as they are the ones you bought the card from.

[Che Guevara]

Unimpressed by Matrox? Why the hell should I be that?

[phaedrus]

The title of this thread, and my edited post, was not a comment on the quality of Matrox products but on the lack of their P-Series cards in the marketplace more than two months after their release. Why should it be so hard to find a P-Series card to buy more than two months after it was released by the company? That is what I did not find impressive.

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[Sasq]

It may be more related to suppliers not ordering (enough) stock.

But thats just an oppinion not from knowledge

Dan

[thop]

Maybe after Matrox ended up sitting on all those banding Parhelias they went for a more defensive strategy this time.

[Guru]

Originally posted by Sasq
It may be more related to suppliers not ordering (enough) stock.

But thats just an oppinion not from knowledge

Dan

No I can assure you that it is becouse Matrox cannot deliver the cards!

[phaedrus]

The only information about the availability for the P-Series from Matrox was through ShopMatrox.com which was often revising their release date. (As of today, it is still in "Pre-Order" status.) I had been constantly watching so I could order a P650 as soon as it was available. When I stumbled on this forum in early in June, I discovered people already had them, so I contacted Matrox and they explained that ShopMatrox.com (a division of Matrox) would not have them yet but other resellers of their products might have them for sale. I was surprised that they wouldn't make this information more obvious.

So when I began to look at other resellers they mentioned, CDW seemed the best to go with. I placed my order and they replied letting me know 50 units were backordered, but mine would ship when they arrived. It did, but it arrived damaged (a broken capacitor), and it's not clear if it was a problem with packing and not labelling the package as fragile, or if it was a problem with shipping, which was Airborne Ground.

When I requested an RMA, I was told my new order would be filled from another shipment of 95 they were expecting, but which was also backordered. They expected the shipment on the 19th. My replacement just shipped last night around 7:00pm. CDW, at their discretion, upgraded the shipping to 2nd Day Air with UPS, for which I'm thankful.

Sorry to write the entire story, but the specifics seem to corroborate what Guru said about this being a supply shortage and not an issue of suppliers not ordering enough.

[Indiana]

Hmm, let's just hope they don't have the Commodore syndrome...

(C= had produced masses of Amiga600 that noone wanted. Those large quantities of A600s in stock bound so much capital that C= could not produce the better accepted A1200 and A4000 in the quantities they could've otherwise sold.
They kinda had to wait for some A600 to be sold and the money coming in everytime before they could produce a new batch of the better selling models. This - among other reasons, of course - finally led to bankruptcy )

[mutz]

Memories of an Amiga 1000, they were great! In their day...

[Faramir1966]

Jup.....
Still have a working A500+ around here

[mutz]

Gave my A1000, software and all to a 10 year old farmer's son about 5 years ago. Today at 15 that kid is a computer genius, and still revers his A1000. Good learning tool.

I started with a C-64 which was a terror.

[Sasq]

Takeing the thread completely off topic, I started with a TRS-80 COCO2 and upgraded from there to an Amstrad CPC-6128

My father would never let me get a C-64 - in a way I'm glad I never did now

Dan

[leech]

I started with an Atari 800XL with the atari 1050 Floppy Disk drive. Oh yeah, what a great machine. Wasn't quite as crappy as the C64 and actually would load software without you having to go make lunch and eat it before it was done

Leech

[Indiana]

I didn't want to lead the thread that OT.

I just wanted to give C= as a bad example for managing, with producing a big stock of a not so well selling product (Amiga600 -> Parhelia) thus binding needed money to produce potentially better selling products (A1200 -> P750 / P650).

Matrox has done this before (m3D, anyone?), so it might be a possible explanantion for the lack of P750 and P650 boards in stores.