On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:56 PM, Gabriel Gunderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Levi Pearson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=105&cp_id=10521&cs_id=1052104&p_id=7857 > > > > Monoprice is awesome. :) > > Thanks for the recommendation. Funny how I had already judged them > based on the ugly url and the ".asp" :) > > Yeah, I'm shallow like that. > > Originally they just had quality audio and networking cables at really cheap prices. They've since branched out quite a bit into commodity electronic gadgets that are mostly a handful of parts and a custom high-volume ASIC that are HUGE margin items for the brand-name manufacturers. A gigabit switch these days is pretty much just a single chip and a bit of support circuitry, and volumes are so high and the NRE has been so long recouped that they're trivially cheap. Of course, a lot of that margin goes to offset the cost of the ridiculously expensive low-yield chips that do new things or cool but relatively uncommon things, so it's hard to complain too much. --Levi /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
