"Geoffrey S. Mendelson" wrote:

Michael A. Terrell wrote:

Pinching pennies reduces reliability, like the several years of crap
computer motherboards that were built with substandard crapacitors.

They were NOT built with substandard capacitors. They were built with
BAD capacitors.


They were still substandard, but for the all too well know industrial
espionage. The companies stuffing the motherboards bought them because
they were the cheapest crap they could find.