Posted by NunYa Bidness on 10/21/05 21:41

On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:57:51 GMT, AZ Nomad <aznomad@PmunOgeBOX.com>
Gave us:

>On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 15:13:50 GMT, Large Farva <none@nospam.com> wrote:
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>>"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.
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>>> As opposed to HP's disposable 3rd world country crappy computers?
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>>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.
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>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.
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>Dell isn't the only reason HP followed the industry to cut manufacturing costs.

Good point.

HP has Agilent for the industrial quality stuff.

A friggin PC and a printer should be nearly as disposable as a wrist
watch is. When was the last time you got a bad chip replaced on your
MOBO? I'd say NEVER.

Just replace the entire MOBO.

But that's where we need to put our minds. If you want a twenty year
PC, you should make a twenty year case, and then mutate the guts as
time and technology goes by, keeping the machine up to snuff.

They need to be, and nearly are as ubiquitous as a wrist watch.

How many old cell phones do you have lying around, or have trashed?

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