To: Ali Chen who wrote (44123 ) 12/27/1998 10:05:00 PM From: Bill Jackson Read Replies (2) | Respond to
Ali, There is some truth in what you say about low cost stuff a few years ago, however the fabrication and distribution chain for the screwdriver shops has become very efficient and the weak suppliers have been gotten rid of. All cases, power supplies, motherboards and cards are all made in highly automated high volume factories in China, India, Malaysia, and other areas that were traditionally hand solder board heavens and hammered tin case zones. this is all gone. All these third world countries have very large capital intensive factories. This, along with chip sets for mobos and vid cards etc has given us the deflation we have seen. Good keyboards for $6, mice for $3, cases for $8 and power supplies for $12-23. Since hand labor has been eliminated and the parts are standard and the circuits have evolved to a robust and repeatable cheap state you cannot say that compaq power supplies are better than joe clonos, they are probably made side by side in the same factory.
