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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill Jackson who wrote (44124)	12/27/1998 10:43:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573430

Bill, a few remarks: <motherboards and cards are all made in highly automated high volume factories..> I wish the automation helps but I've seen so many badly behaving boards that no automation can help. <But joe clono can get good ASUS mobos,> That's exactly the problem: good ASUS board goes at cost. Some Joe Clono don't have enough knowledge and data to discern bad from good, and end up with a no-name TXpro for $59. I do agree about keyboards and disk drives. What concerns me here is that the street price for "good" boards does not go down and stays at $100 level. This is bad for AMD. <you cannot say that compaq power supplies are better than joe clonos,> I am not sure about Compaqs, but there IS A HUGE DIFFERENCE in quality of PS if you happen to open them up: input filters/fuses are not populated, undersized capacitors, poor soldering, etc. Unfortunately, in most way you look, the joe clono are at disadvantage, and the lower quality is inavoidable to compensate this. The most sad thing is to see when a big boy uses same cheap tricks but pockets the volume differences <ggg> <The screwdriver shops lack brand names and brand marketing. Perhaps they should all get together and make a standard label and case style> I like this idea. Something like "Generic Compatible Computers", with standartized BIOS around Award. Something like "Association for Open Generic Computing". A good starting point for a smart enterpreneur... I'd like to see it "open" because the latest Intel "initiative" to put an encrypted signature storage is a death for open PC industry. It is getting too far - computers are getting less and less controllable by user. Regards, - Ali