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To: Amy J who wrote (170858)	9/10/2002 1:41:55 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

"There are more than 200 components inside a PC." 200 components? How did you arrive to this number? Did you count resistors and capacitors on the mainboard? In this case it would be well above 1000...plus screws, plastic labels, and sheet metal... "When those component vendors design and develop their components, all of those component vendors have to test their own components against the main processor and in a combinatorial fashion with the other industry components." Are you familiar with the concept called "standartzation"? When every vendor adhere to standard specifications, and a system designer designs to comply with these specs? You do not test a floppy "against the main processor", it just works. Always these days. "And there's so many of them, so obviously, the component vendors' time is allocated according to market share. That's the definition of brand for a component: brand means you get the benefit of more QA time by the industry, which means that brand is quality here." ??? "that's just how the high-tech industry works" NOT. - Ali