Paul Tomblin wrote:
In a previous article, "Kyle Boatright" said:
That said, I think it'll be a long time before someone buys a knock-off
airliner pushed by knock-off engines and guided by knock-off avionics. I
just don't foresee a market for third rate aircraft.

The company I'm currently working for nearly got knocked out of the
business because we were dumb enough to buy cheap Dell workstations that
had power supplies that had a cheap Chinese knock-off of a Japanese
designed capacitor that failed after a few months. Our customers really
did not like having their critical machines going dead after a few months,
and it was expensive as hell sending out hundreds of replacements.
Finally, our parent company used their clout on Dell to make them pay for
the cost of not only replacing the computers, but sending people out to
the customer sites to replace them all.

Dell's saving a few cents per computer cost them hundreds of dollars in
replacement costs, and cost us untold millions in customer goodwill.


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"I kept the faith and I kept voting/Not for the iron fist but for the helping
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fellow man" --Billy Bragg


oh poor you, hey i got a suggestion here, why don't you turn to the
back of your mobile phone and open the battery case and read the
country of origin , do the same for your computers, keyboard and your
tv too . and wow Dell, an american brand uses knockoff components.