On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 10:09:18 -0400, you wrote: Chuck
On the 4th of July you are missing the real point of mass production. As a rule of thumb (not to be confused the Olde English version) anything that is manufactured for retail sale has the COST multiplied by at least 4 in small companies and 8 in larger ones. That is why the washer that you can buy for 2c at the hardware store cost $2 from Dell. (Ok so that's 100%) but get the drift. If you ran Dell your overheads will be that much more - do you have a service desk (yes the brown one in the back room) Does anybody sit there (Only you when the phone rings) The point is if Dell (only use the name as an example) were to stick a case fan in that costs, say $2, and paid the guy/gal to screw it in $2 by the time it got to you the additional cost would be $100 (Time, effort, stock control, weight, shipping, maybe a larger powersupply?) So you stuff a case fan in for $5 and that's it (full stop) guy picks his machine up, puts it in the trunk and drives home - no shipping weight problems and the guy thinks that all computers come with case fans until he buys a Dell for $100 less than yours and finds they don't have a case fan. Moral of the case fan - many computers don't need them especially if used anywhere around 50 deg North or 50 deg South everywhere else needs air con. Hugh >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Wayne Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 9:45 AM >Subject: Re: HARD:Case Fan needed? > > >> >> Some of us have better things to do than fight an up hill battle. The only >> thing anyone can expect is you do your best at what you do. Some will >> listen & some will not but that's not your fault but theirs. >> > >Yes and most take it as out of place to discuss hardware in a Windows list. >Those frustrated people in technical support for DSL and other telephone >support services have it tough when the problem is hardware related or >Windows is screwed up. It rolls downhill in that bad hardware (in this >thread, improper ventilation) causes Windows problems, as if Windows by >default along with hackers, bugs etc. do not mess it up enough. Lately I am >seeing more problems caused in the home. When they bring their computer in, >it runs great on my bench. I point them back to the basics, just hook up >power cord, keyboard, mouse and monitor and if it runs decent then, they can >go from there to find their problem. > >Oh, I did not wait in line to try to download Vista beta. I ordered the DVD. >For around ten bucks, Microsoft gives great service. They sent 2 DVD's, one >for 64 bit and one for other systems. I loaded it on a separate hard drive, >of course, just to tinker around with. Very interesting! I have lots to >learn before I start building Vista computers. > >Chuck Sir Hugh of Bognor -- Remember. You may honestly believe that you understood everything you thought I said but what you thought you heard wasn't exactly what I said. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] E38 Bognor Regis, W.Sussex, England, UK -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
