[Borderline]

"Is there such a thing as A quality and B quality versions of the same "made in China" computer component or accessory?


Not that I have ever seen formally stated that way. What happens is, over time, your product quality deteriorates and you have to look for a new builder. We are always looking for it. However, we also have some top notch suppliers: For instance, Lycom in Taiwan, builds a bunch of boards and cards for us and is always top of the heap and as good as anything made anywhere.

You would think that if we had issues with doing business in China that we would use domestic suppliers. Well , for what we can get here, we do get here! But there are no cable manufacturers making what we buy in the US. I would love to bring it home. In my opinion it is inevitable that it comes home or just disappears entirely as the 'global' economy is about to go up in smoke. However, the other side of that coin is: what US company is stupid enough to build onshore capability with Obama and the Dems running the insane asylum? Have to be fools to pay million dollar bribes to US officials when thousand dollar bribes gets the same thing offshore. And US unions are frankly the enemy of this country.

[dennisw]

Thanks much for the information

Let me put it this way
Apple enthusiasts like to brag about Apple’s better hardware

Can Apple be more demanding and get away with it? And go to Asus for example and say -— “We want you to make Quadro FX 1700 Graphics cards for us with a lower defect rate then what you supply others. We want better cards from a better run than what you give Dell or sell through NewEgg”