On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 21:30, Peter Machell wrote: > > Yes QUALITY being the key word, > > HP, DELL, Cisco for the rich, Dlink for the poor. > > No-name cheapies are just that, cheap shit. Intel switches do funny > > things > > from new, and the fans die early. > > Interesting how our experiences dictate our opinion of brands, and > this opinion can so differ amongst us. > Who manufacturers Dell's switches - hopefully not the same brand > making their laser printers (Samsung)?
Interesting indeed. Never would have occurred to me to associate Dell with quality, and I would build my own from selected quality components any time before settling for a HP where quality of individual components may vary substantially between batches depending on what they can source, but price remains the same - namely twice as much as it costs to roll your own from equal or better components. The "quality" of Cisco is nothing but a myth - they deal mostly in embedded systems which are usually indestructible by nature regardless of brand (if we disregard the very cheapest of the Chinese "make dos"), and their operating system / proprietary protocols took some heavy negative publicity recently if I remember right. Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
