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| cubrewer May 23, 2007 1:07 PM EDT |
This is one of those silly blog postings where the author takes a grain of truth (i.e., I'll accept that some cheap hardware is of lower quality than some expensive hardware) and spins it into several paragraphs of crap. For the record, I've had a lot of luck buying the cheapest hardware I can find for desktops, prototypes and other situations where 24/7 is not mission-critical. And 99.8% of the time, cheap hardware works great and I save a bundle for that .1% decrement in service. A much bigger issue is driver support than the actual hardware and so far expense and name-brandedness haven't been very good predictors of whether they have unsupported hardware. In many cases, I have the worst problems with flashy new components like proprietary video cards or (when they were new) SATA drives. |
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