Using Quality OEM's
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points posted to Dell by falcon1620
07/31/07
Here is my radical idea…Instead of continuing the contract with Foxconn and Mitec, instead search for quality OEM manufactures for your products. There are lots of them out there, Asus for example is a good start, MSI also has good products, Intel makes awesome motherboards, and many other companies make just solid products. It doesn’t have to be them most expensive, it doesn’t have to be the top of the line, just something with a little more planning and testing before throwing it onto the production line. Foxconn has come a long way, and Mitec well they fell off the face of the earth in the industry… Still none of these OEM’s are anywhere close to “getting it right”… Have some sense of quality for your components. I’ve had so many unnecessary recalls on products that I have worked with from Dell exclusively, cooling options are poorly planned out so machines overheat and cause problems and noise, fans are cheep and the bearings die prematurely, hardware is flawed, capacitors are the wrong value or rating, power supplies blow, causing fires in datacenters, resistors were incorrectly valued on motherboards, screens die prematurely, hard drives overheat and die. Recalls on components have been made on more then one occasion on the wrong problem or similar problems on the same areas failed, but were “to expensive to replace” I had a Dell 486 from my friend that they replace the hard drive, because it would die, the real problem was with the loose connection on the Delta power supply, they had recalled similar power supply models on other manufactures because of the same problem with them, the molex connectors snapped in splicing onto the wires, then a connector would snap into place on top of that, Dell mistakes this for a failed hard drive when it was actually just the Molex connectors shorting out cutting power to the drive… I fixed that problem long after a new hard drive was ordered, and my friends response was gee I always wondered why I kept having problems even after I went though all that trouble with them to replace the drive…
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