Green Motherboards VS. Colored "Chinese" Motherboards - Page 2

I don't know of any business that shows another business their business to get business.

I know to get some certifications you can only do business with others that have that certification or meet other requirements, mostly it is so big business only does business with big business. I don't know how far back the requirements go.

I think that ddelatorre is referring to being R2 certified so that the people that you do business with can audit your downstreams if they need to. The company that I am dealing with has R2, Rios and several ISO certifications. Therefore, I know they aren't shipping the stuff overseas and I don't have to worry any nefarious business practices.

Originally Posted by BohemianLush

I think that ddelatorre is referring to being R2 certified so that the people that you do business with can audit your downstreams if they need to. The company that I am dealing with has R2, Rios and several ISO certifications. Therefore, I know they aren't shipping the stuff overseas and I don't have to worry any nefarious business practices.

Being that I am very familiar with R2's certifications and requirements, there is nothing to prohibit a company from doing business "overseas". In fact the notion that a company as large as SIMS Metal management or Waste management one of which I'm pretty certain you've contracted with, could function on a day to day basis without filling and shipping containers is ridiculous. R2 doesn't even prohibit shipping e-waste to developing countries.

The way I look at mother board issue is just like the case of the computer.
The old case are thick steel and are heavy. The new cases are VERY thin and light.
They both work, and the new ones are much easyer to move around (sucks for scrapping)

What I ment is thing get made cheaper less material in them
Old Computer case have still. New ones realy thing steel. Made cheaper but still work just as good or better.
Mother boards are made cheaper because then can and they still work.

Originally Posted by Bear

Every time you buy something, in case you haven't noticed, it is inferior to the last time you bought the "same" item. This is not only true at the grocery store, where last weeks 0.99 - 7oz bag of chips has became this weeks 1.79 - 3oz "new and improved" ones which taste rather funky due to the cheaper ingredients. It is also true with everything else on the shelves, including computers, and their "new and improved" inferior internal components. I have no clue why this has happened, but have heard stories which mentioned "unbridled corporate greed".

In other words, the answer to your question is a definitive, resounding, Y-E-S! They are cheaper in every possible way that the human mind can possibly imagine in making them that way. You only need hold up an 80s IBM, made in USA board, beside a 2012 hoo.askt.yoo board, to see very definite differences. Far as precious metals go, they're not only in less places, and on less components, they are undoubtedly lighter and thinner in any way they could conceive in making them that way. (just my 02 ; )

I'll second that,i have quit going to a lot of places i used to eat, cause every bite ya take,you know if there was anything in the world cheaper to put in that food,thats what you would be eating instead of the current cheap ingredients.

Back in the 80's and 90's the price of gold was about 400.00 per troy oz. today gold is over 1700 per troy oz. If they made computers the same way today as they did in the 80's or 90's we would be paying 2000.00-3000.00$ insted of 500.00 or 600.00$. And we all would be complainning about how expensive the computers are.

what you mean people still buy real computers, all ive seen people buying is icrap