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'White Box' Makers Take Up The Slack
n3hat writes: "This story in the business section of the Baltimore Sun points out that the 'pooter bidness isn't as bad as the publicly-traded companies report. Seems that as much as 45% of systems are assembled by screwdriver shops and other white-box makers, not the big guys." No huge surprises here.
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..submits the laziest comments. Editorialize with your brain, or don't even bother.
CmdrTaco and co. are the AICN of the computer world at this point.
While the article is interesting, due to a bad personal experience, I will never buy another box from one of these "screwdriver" computer shops. A year ago I went to the local store and bought a nice Celeron 400, with a 10gig hard drive, and a 28.8 wintel modem, for a reasonable $1100.
The problem was the idiots forgot to put in a fan and the computer kept over-heating and rebooting on me. So I took it back and asked them to please put in a fan, and they said "no", because it was their policy to not install fans on the computers they built since it saved money. Instead they suggested I keep it in a well ventilated area, or buy one of those office fans and point it at the back of the computer!
So I go crazy and demand a refund, and they point out that their returns policy was only six days, which was long gone as I had had it for two months already.
Anyways I had a friend install a fan for me and the computer should last me a couple more years, but that's the last time I go down that road again.
Ok, well I realize that part of the grammar police's job (whoo, note the apostrophe!) is to be mindlessly pedantic and constantly out of touch with how people actually use language, but c'mon (again!) -- `A foo's a foo' is a common everyday idiom that even you can't (!) have missed.
Methinks you've (...) been spending too much time down at the linguistic donut shop (overindulging in ripe, sweaty, heaving adjectives)....
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