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Originally Posted by snipenekkid
Seems you hit the point where you are out of your depth here. I am surprised at your comments since they really are very contradictory.
OK, so engineers get paid NOTHING by your company, yet because you want your cut it is impossible to deliver sub-$200 devices to us "whining" consumers?
Also, Lenovo, Dell, HP and others ALL manage to build CTO laptops all built outside the US. This is especially true for HP & Lenovo.
As for modular it only needs be CTO if it is not modular in design and the components do not have user accessible slots for installation. Yes this would mean going back to the boards but it may be a fatal mistake to force a one-size-fits-all family of devices when we are all being far more sensible with our cash these days. Staying behind the curve rather than proactively going beyond run of the mill will be a mistake in the long run. That is not to say these need to be this way now, but rather it should be the goal in the near term. Make the features available as accessories not integral to the device. This is bound to happen anyway as the eink improves to actually be of any real use so the devices will merge with the idea of a netbook.
But for now we should all never believe what marketing spins before our eyes. At this point I am seeing more and more that I am very likely not to ever be an Astak customer. The spin is simply starting to trip over itself.
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Dear Snipenekkid:
I was quoting what the average engineer makes in Taiwan and not what we pay. I was trying to tell you factually that there is a drastic difference in pay scales between countries... not between our factory and any other. We pay the going rate every time.
Consumers do not whine... they state what they would like. YOU are normally very level-headed so I am sorry that you took this wrong.
Robert B