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Old December 31st 07, 03:34 AM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware,alt.os.linux.ubuntu,comp.os.linux.hardware
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Default Generic USB 2.0 hub showing up as USB 1.1

On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 15:01:01 -0800, (Nate Edel)
wrote:

In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips Yousuf Khan wrote:
Isn't everything made in China these days? Avoiding Chinese made hubs
might be like trying to avoid any Swiss chocolate made in Switzerland.


Depends on if by China, you mean both Taiwan and the PRC or just the PRC.
For that matter, since "made in" usually means final assembly, there are
probably some from Thailand and Malaysia too.


Taiwan is OK, it's the mainland that produces cheap crap. Yet what
else could be expected? Nobody looks at China as a producer of
quality goods - that place is reserved by EU, Japan, and USA, with
countries like S.Korea and Taiwan trailing pretty close. The only way
for China to plug into wider world's economy was as the cheapest of
the cheapest, with hopes to eventually make it up the top later as it
was done by Japan in late 1970s and arguably by Korea around the break
of the millenia (imho they are not there yet, but getting very close -
typed he while staring into Samsung monitor, and a damn good one;-)
While their labor was cheaper than dirt they had a luxury to follow
the specs - as much as their skills and tools allowed. These days
when labor there is just dirt-cheap they have to cut all the corners
they can because "made in China" label commands no pricing power, and
$ gets cheaper day after day. And yes, some posters are right that
sometimes there is only choice between "made in China" and nothing
else - the Chinese crap squeezed everyone else from the market because
nobody else can sell sooo cheap. For most buyers a hub is as good as
another hub. Just a quick look at PW: no-name USB 2.0 hub can be had
for $7.61, and Belkin starts at around $30 (even this one still can be
made in China!). What would buy Joe 6pack when he was told by his
techie neighbor that he needs a USB 2.0 hub to connect all his toys to
the box?

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