[geeks] this is where the mac should be

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:

> Dell does the same thing.  They call it the "revolver" (apparently
> aimed straight at vendor's heads).  They issue multiple purchase
> orders per day for popular items like hard drives, so that they only
> have say 2 hours of inventory on hand.

You can see it in system consistency, too.  Order a batch of 80-sometime
Optiplexes, and you'll see at least three designs of power supplies,
hard drives from multiple vendors, memory from different companies, etc.
At least it makes it easy to predict which ones will die horribly first,
and it reduces the chances of getting a shipment full of Maxtor hard
drives.

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Jonathan Patschke   "The ruler demands gifts, the judge accepts bribes,
Elgin, TX            the powerful dictate what they desire--they all con-
USA                  spire together. The best of them is like a brier, the
                      most upright worse than a thorn hedge." --Micah 7:3-4