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Originally Posted by Foodle
Ok, well I work in CPU and system design  , and I'm definitely not giving Dell too much credit. Maybe for their el cheap consumer boxes, they don't do such a great job, but for their server machines (equivalent to a "track" wheel, ne?), you bet your ass they compare components from different vendors, stress test the parts, and do quality control. |
...and harddrives and fans and other components still fail all the time.
Honestly, the whole computer comparison is totally off IMO.
Wheel failures should be a tiny tiny percentage of total sales. Computer hardware failure rates are much larger. Also, bad batches of hard drives happen all the time, and they can cause massive data loss. Same issue there with suppliers, and a lot of times they are not weeded out before they hit the customer. Likewise, companies know about the failures all the time, and do nothing because it can be more cost effective to let them fail and swap them out over time than invest to swap them all out.
...and the equipment I work on makes Dell anything look like toys.