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Originally posted by oberon
It's also my personal opinion that people who believe computers are simple appliances are, well, slightly deluded.
But if they hire people to make it so, so be it.
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I always tell him that, and his response has always been "yea i know their not simply components, but it can be made to just work simply but well through a good setup without inherent conflict".
Or more to the point, the fact is the mass distributers like dell and compaq have convinced the world for marketing purposes that
it is a toaster in order to sell more, so now we're all stuck with that mass consumer misconception
I do agree that many manufacturers don't follow the form and spirit of the industry standards enough that many oem products are buggy and conflicting as all hell though. there's something just wrong about the fact everyone knows you wait for revision "A" o via chipsets before buying any board with that chipset. It's company behaviour that supports things like that the make it very hard to build a good system sometimes.