Re: [opensuse] SUSE certified laptop

On Thursday 29 March 2007 10:22, Hans du Plooy wrote:
On Thu, March 29, 2007 15:43, BRUCE STANLEY wrote:
From the 'Dell' article:

For cases such as WinModems, for which there are neither open source nor
proprietary drivers
available, Dell will be encouraging users to substitute a hardware-based
modem. "However, we can't
substitute hardware-based modems in our notebooks without redesigning and
significantly increasing
the price of the system.

What nonsense. Exactly how much does it cost to manufacture a hardware
modem these days? And why can the hardware bits not be on a
daughterboard, like the wireless, bluetooth and other bits are?

Hans

Well if you are making 1 the about $100,000 US. If you make 2 then about
$100,000 US If you make 100 about $100,000 US. You get the picture. There is
a quantity point below which the fixed cost of manufacturing so dominate the
manufacturing cost that for all practical purposes the fixed cost become the
cost of production. If of course you manufacture 1,000,000 then the relevant
cost is the variable cost or in other words the cost of the parts, assembly,
and testing.

No body these days is manufacturing real modems anymore. Everybody is
manufacturing winmodems because they are cheaper in total cost of
manufacturer even if they are a pile of crap in usage. Nobody cares about
that. All anybody wants is CHEAP. so that is what you get CHEAP as in CHEAP
quality.
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