holger-

I shudder at the thought of someone walking around with a Batman engagement ring. Nothing else screams "I've been infected by consumer culture" like giving your one true love something that's been heavily advertised.

Yeah, you make the mistake of assuming that customers were informed of these changes. "Buy our new motherboards, now with shitty-ass components!" Naw, that didn't happen. The company silently substituted components and the customers thought they were getting the same quality they expected from a trusted company.

Seriously, you really think that the companies informed their customers about the substandard components? WTF? Of course they didn't, otherwise nobody would have bought it.