Comment Re:Please mod Trip6 to TROLL right now... (Score 1) 272
I agree with you that shit happens in manufacturing. I buy electronics products with my fingers crossed, always hoping they are in the "good batch".
This is a different case. Other manufacturers are reporting the same problem in 2003. However, Dell just kept on churning out 11 million PCs from 2003 to 2005.
Wow, took them 2 years to discover the problem and educate their support to cover the problem? For what? Capacitors that costs a few pennies each? In exchange for their goodwill and brand name? How much is the Dell name worth now?
Nothing to me. The capacitors still costs a few pennies each though.
It may actually cost Dell less to stop production, wait for new capacitors before continuing. Retail consumers may not care, but Dell have no integrity at all to bulk purchasers and will have to push prices further down to attract any new customers. Dell have nothing to gain in this debacle, short or long term.