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Tiny Professional Office Performance
by Gendu
Tiny, as you may well know, is (or was) a computer company, now bought out by Time. Our last computer was bought from tiny. Tiny computer, BIG mistake. Firstly, we bought a computer from them with a scanner and printer as a package. I wasn't the one buying it, but it was well over the average price of a computer of that spec. It had ... a Pentium 3 processor.
Shortly after buying our computer, a friend said they had bought a Tiny computer and had had nothing but problems. Discarding it as a one-off instance, I was still happy with the computer that we had. My excitement at the new computer faded about as quickly as daylight on a winter evening.
We soon had nothing but problems. For a start, Explorer wouldn't install properly. It would continually refuse to load. We also got several errors that disabled literally EVERY programme. When we rung up for assistance, we were told that fixing it would invlove using MSDOS but (get this) they wouldn't help us, incase it went wrong!
Very well, I used a friends computer to search the internet for a solution and did it myself. Thanks a lot, Tiny. Since then, it seems we have NEVER had everything working. Something has ALWAYS gone wrong. The keyboard changed settings for no reason, the hard disk actually broke at one point (we had to send off the computer to have the disk replaced).
In short, Tiny computers have been nothing but hassle and grief.
In fairness, when it did work, it was great. We could make full use of the MS Work Suite, internet and media features. Shame it never lasted. The scanner actually never worked at all - it just wouldn't acknowledge that our make of scanner existed, even though it was supplied with the computer. Great.
So there we have it. Thats my experience with Tiny and unfortunately, I'm not the only one who thinks that the company is about as useful as a hairdryer in the middle of the desert.
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