Posted by AZ Nomad on 10/19/05 16:57

On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 15:13:50 GMT, Large Farva <none@nospam.com> wrote:



>"AZ Nomad" <aznomad@PmunOgeBOX.com> wrote in message
>news:slrndl8nj3.rn5.aznomad@ip70-176-155-130.ph.ph.cox.net...
>> On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 02:12:16 GMT, Large Farva <none@nospam.com> wrote:
>>
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>>>They're probably just sick of losing business to Dell with their
>>>disposeable, 3rd world country made crappy computers. They have to do what
>>>they can to keep up.
>>
>> As opposed to HP's disposable 3rd world country crappy computers?

>As I said, HP had to quit making nicely built computers because they were
>losing business to Dell who sells pure crap which is made in a 3rd world
>sweat shop for 2 pennies an hour. What's HP going to do, just say "screw it,
>Dell can have the market. We're closing up shop". No, they had to do the
>same thing Dell was doing so they wouldn't go out of business. It's sad,
>really.

Assume Dell doesn't exist. Would you pay $5500 for an HP PC equal to today's
$800 clone? Don't forget that it'll be obsolete in 4 years.

Dell isn't the only reason HP followed the industry to cut manufacturing costs.

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