Protek

Bought the protek Ultra MX,by mail order almost 12 months ago.Spent more time chasing them up for the order,than I could have imagined. It has 32Mb Ram, 4.3Gb hard drive,with speakers and 40xCD-ROM.Total cost £239.00.Not bad you may say,but unfortunately they have now gone down the tube.There had been persitent rumours in the computer magazines that deliveries were tardy,so no surprise there then. However, for the money,I think it is quite a good machine, and so far the memory is enough for my needs,I dont play games much and is mainly used for the internet and writing letters. Theres no graphics card,but may get one later for game palying for ...

I bought a computer system from them, it was cheap at the time, and they were all nice to me until I gave them my credit card number. After that, the problems started. There were delays in the delivery. They were speaking to me like I was nothing until I threatened them to get my solicitor in touch with them. Well, two days later I received the machine. They said to me that the motherboard was an ATX, with USB ports on it, but it was an old piece of junk. About 2 months ago, I wanted to sell my computer for a better system. I then found out that they were going into liquidation. The five years guarantee on the computer was going to the gutter. Results, I cannot use ...

Cowboys ! That's the only word that can describe this company. I'm glad to hear from another review that they've gone out of business. I bought my computer from them in 1998 - it's now 2000 and I've just sorted it out. I think they just put a collection of components on the desk and swept them into a box. The problem it seems was that the modem they supplied was not compatible with the processor they used, according to the documentation on the modem disk! I could have done that ! The lesson I learnt is only buy this kind of stuff from a shop or somewhere that you can EASILY take it back to. My system went to Devon twice after it was ...