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Originally Posted by jeff5may
I was being sarcastic. In reality, I agree with you completely. The consumer electronics industry in general has taken a turn for the worse, pretty much since the flat-panel HDTV and blu-ray discs hit the market. Gone are the days of discrete components and modular construction. Nowadays, everything the unit does is crammed into a tiny postage stamp. What space used to house wires, boards, and components is now either empty or shrunken out of existence. What used to be a durable, beefy power supply is now a separate, dinky AC/DC adapter pack or wall wart.
How can anyone in their right mind pay $699 for a phone made of glass and plastic? Or $2000 for a super-sized laptop/tablet made of glass and plastic? And why do none of those who purchase said fragile devices also purchase armor to clad them with? Cuz you know they will eventually try to skydive.
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pretty much. the idea is don't sh!t where you eat, but reality is that you're just doing all the sh!tting in China so you can act like you didn't do pollution here. Wall wart? Flat panel monitors used to have them, but now its another victim of embedded systems streamlining where the power supply is a separate proprietary purpose specific board or even worse, a section of land on main board.