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On Monday 12 February 2007, Mark Kirkwood wrote: |
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> > I've given up on the consumer electronics industry being able to |
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> > consistently build high quality power supplies for ANYTHING that |
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> > plugs into the mains. The normal build quality is terrible, and the |
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> > ability of the designer to do the job leaves much to be desired. It |
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> > almost looks like the things are deisnged to be "good enough to |
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> > just make it past a years warranty" |
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> > Saying you might have a dodgy and new psu surprises me about as |
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> > much as saying that the sky is blue and water is wet.... |
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> While I generally agree, not *all* manufacturers provide rubbish for |
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> us... e.g in the current context Zalman PSUs are very good quality |
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> (robust and quiet), and if you hunt around a bit even some of the |
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> less spectacular brands have their moments (e.g I have a couple of |
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> Thermaltake 560W PSUs that are very good). |
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True enough, but I was careful to qualify what I said :-) |
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I said "consumer electronics", that's the bargain / reasonably priced |
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stuff that you find in your local electronics/pc store. You do get |
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decent stuff out there but it's in a different class and "consumer |
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grade" isn't a good descriptor |
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alan |
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Optimists say the glass is half full, |
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Pessimists say the glass is half empty, |
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Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za |
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+27 82, double three seven, one nine three five |
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