Topic 'Have the major manufacturers stopped?' in forum 'PC Hardware Discussion/Reviews' - dslreports.com http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Have-the-major-manufacturers-stopped-23287330 en Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:56:12 EDT Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:56:12 EDT Re: Have the major manufacturers stopped? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Have-the-major-manufacturers-stopped-23305592
As for the major player - they are part of a major player - moves up their playership in my humble opinion.
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Well - since they are owned by Dell...
This was long before Alienware was acquired by Dell
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Striving for Parfection.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Have-the-major-manufacturers-stopped-23305230 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:43:20 EDT Re: Have the major manufacturers stopped? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Have-the-major-manufacturers-stopped-23304436 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Have-the-major-manufacturers-stopped-23304436 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:37:42 EDT Re: Have the major manufacturers stopped? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Have-the-major-manufacturers-stopped-23303201 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Have-the-major-manufacturers-stopped-23303201 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:35:00 EDT Re: Have the major manufacturers stopped? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Have-the-major-manufacturers-stopped-23299806
Now, whether or not you consider them to be a "Major" player or not is up for discussion.
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HP, in my experience working on their consumer Pavilion lines, is 100% standardized. Dell is by far the worst. If sony still makes Vaio desktops (towers) they are not far behind dell.

Dell has proprietary PSUs, tho the newer cases have screw holes for ATX. Sony has always had proprietary PSUs that arent even close to the same form factor as ATX, though i havent seen a viao desktop in a few years.
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~Choosy moms choose Jif~]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Have-the-major-manufacturers-stopped-23298561 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:54:44 EDT Re: Have the major manufacturers stopped? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Have-the-major-manufacturers-stopped-23297708 said by whymeintrouble:

said by Jahntassa:

No. Far from it.
Dell in my recent experience is the biggest who does this
Yep, and they didn't use to do this before. I had an old Dell desktop (486/DX) that was the small form factor (had 4 slots sideways off a riser board). Power supply died & was able to use an ATX power supply from a different maker no problems!

Well there was ONE problem, the power supply was twice the height of the old one, so I couldn't put the case top back on! :D
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No. Far from it.
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Tom]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Have-the-major-manufacturers-stopped-23291588 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:04:07 EDT Re: Have the major manufacturers stopped? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Have-the-major-manufacturers-stopped-23287904 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Have-the-major-manufacturers-stopped-23287904 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:20:50 EDT Have the major manufacturers stopped? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Have-the-major-manufacturers-stopped-23287330
Do the major manufacturers of desktops now use ONLY ATX, common standard power supplies, or are some of them still proprietary? What about the screw layout for mainboards?

I would think by now they might realize it is smarter to do things that way, because it would mean more sales and happier consumers...
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