On Thursday 20 April 2006 02:43 pm, Erle Pereira wrote: > On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 21:42 +0530, Dinesh Joshi wrote: > > Personally, I am not biased against the Chinese but Chinese goods > > tend to have the "cheap" feel to them and I think that they have
Given the prices they seem to have a much more expensive finish than many of the "branded" goods around here. > > definitely lowered the quality and have cut costs at the same > > time while trying to improve their margins. > > > > What say the group? > > Its not a bias. No matter what, Lenovo will find it very hard to > match the quality and reliability of an IBM. And what exactly is the magik that IBM has?. IBM has been outsourcing since the past three decades (maybe earlier). First Japan, then Taiwan and now China. Could be India or thailand or Burkina Faso. And the very same arguments were bandied about 25 yrs ago and will be in the future. Notice how nobody talks about bad quality if it is made in Ireland or "East Germany". IT is a cultural bias. Given the same amount of monetory inputs any one would produce quality, and has very little to do with location (and by implication people). -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
