4 Jan
2010
4 Jan
'10
4:38 p.m.
This kind of thing makes me insane. ?I would have
gladly paid another
$1, or even $10, had they just put the parts on the board.
Keep in mind that catering to the tiny majority of people like
yourself really throws a wrench in the manufacturing engineering
works. For every component of a computer there is the obvious cost of
the piece, but from there one can find *dozens* of little extra (and
sometimes not so little) costs associated with it - everything from
extra inventory costs to the extra toilet paper in the bathroom.
Having semicustom builds, like including the connectors in this
example,*really* amplifies things.
?I have a
hard time believing (i.e. prefer to believe) that this would be purely
a cost cutting move.
It is. All companies do it - even Apple and IBM and the other premium
equipment manufacturers. When you get into the trenches (the
production floor), you see that building computers is much more than
stuffing boards.
--
Will