i dunno. i just worked on one of their ‘gaming’ rigs. weird chinese-branded everything. 3 months old, won’t stay running. crashes constantly. re-installs don’t help. it’s trash. the vendor has all but disappeared. still has their storefront but they don’t answer, and amazon won’t help either.
even though i swapped out the atrocious no-name motherboard so now it’s at least usable, i expect to see it again with a failed psu, gpu, or ram.
they might make it on availability or price, but longevity or reliability they have a lot of work to do.
There is a difference between the cheap Chinese crap and the stuff they’re actually trying to be competent with. Chinese made quality products are taking over markets. For example they’re making a huge splash in the motorcycle industry with CFMOTO.
There are reliable and crap Chinese brands. This is not really relevant in this conversation. (plus manufacturing defects can go unnoticed with any brand) It’s merely a data point of one.
I’m running a 10 year old ‘western stuff’ PC and I don’t run into any issues.
Planned obsolescence exists in single-manufacturer products (smartphones, white-goods), even moreso in vertically-integrated businesses (Apple, Samsung).
It doesn’t work at all in the PC industry where component suppliers compete for market dominance, because if their company puts out a shitty product that fails more rapidly than a competitor, they lose sales and brand reputation in a crowded market.
i dunno. i just worked on one of their ‘gaming’ rigs. weird chinese-branded everything. 3 months old, won’t stay running. crashes constantly. re-installs don’t help. it’s trash. the vendor has all but disappeared. still has their storefront but they don’t answer, and amazon won’t help either.
even though i swapped out the atrocious no-name motherboard so now it’s at least usable, i expect to see it again with a failed psu, gpu, or ram.
they might make it on availability or price, but longevity or reliability they have a lot of work to do.
None of that matters. If they make stable ram I don’t care about their “gaming rigs”
There is a difference between the cheap Chinese crap and the stuff they’re actually trying to be competent with. Chinese made quality products are taking over markets. For example they’re making a huge splash in the motorcycle industry with CFMOTO.
CXMT and YMTC should be a bit more serious operations than whoever made your no-name parts.
There are reliable and crap Chinese brands. This is not really relevant in this conversation. (plus manufacturing defects can go unnoticed with any brand) It’s merely a data point of one.
So you’re saying they just need to scoot back their planned obsolescence a bit to align with western stuff.
I’m running a 10 year old ‘western stuff’ PC and I don’t run into any issues.
Planned obsolescence exists in single-manufacturer products (smartphones, white-goods), even moreso in vertically-integrated businesses (Apple, Samsung).
It doesn’t work at all in the PC industry where component suppliers compete for market dominance, because if their company puts out a shitty product that fails more rapidly than a competitor, they lose sales and brand reputation in a crowded market.
Sounds pretty similar to my experience with Samsung and Gigabyte