By Philip Vaughan
Date Added: Tuesday 01 April, 2008

As a child, my family had a modest income and any money I had was earned from weekend and school holiday jobs. I learned the value of money quickly but the value of quality the hard way. When looking for a new computer, I thought I knew what I wanted but needed validation and possibly some advice. I found Vadim purely by browsing. Like so many others here, my initial reaction was that the prices were high. After making my initial contact I felt I received good advice and was even talked down a little from my original spec by Vincent. However, I soon talked myself back up. I took the plunge in February (2008) and ordered what I consider to be a PC to last me years. I play no games but use Photoshop CS3 to process digital photographs and needed something to do this as well as use a range of MS Office software, email, browsing etc. Fault tolerance and redundancy are important to me so I have 4 disks in a RAID10 and have just added a fifth disk outside the array for backups. A final sense check with Vadim and I was away. I was kept informed of progress at appropriate junctures and all my queries were answered (except just one Richard and it’s now too late!) in a timely, courteous and professional manner. I no longer do anything technical with computers but when it arrived I had to remove the side panels. Clearly this machine had been built with precision, passion and attention to detail. Seeing – well hearing really – a particular band play in 1978 through a superb sound system taught me that quality DOES make a difference. A thirty year old lesson has just been reinforced by my first purchase from Vadim. I think I’ll be needing a laptop in the next six months so I’ll be back. To protect my new baby I’m buying (more) covers from www.jenart.com and will be registering him for free on https://www.immobilise.com/ My only regret is that I didn’t order some of those little coloured LED fan thingies…