PatrickDeese - 12:09 am on Jun 12, 2004 (gmt 0)

> True, true ... but I guess I don't view "broken and repaired" as a bargain.

I had a friend that worked in Austin for Dell - all the PCs that came off the line that didn't pass inspection were sent to a special Factory outlet lab where they would crack them open and look for what was wrong.

He said 9/10 times it was something really basic, like the power supply wasn't connected to the mobo, or the hard drive cable wasn't plugged in firmly.

The ones with defective parts were rare, and were usually cannibalized for replacement parts.