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Key 4: Feature comes after Quality

By Ken Xu on May 24, 2007 in General, Update News

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forthkey.jpgYou have read my Key 1,Key 2, and my Key 3. Two more keys & you’ll learned how to buys cheap and best (Cheap-est) thing you want. Well, I’m not big headed here. I’m sure this 5 keys will help you get what you want in a cheapest price.

Every Key is important because they are connected each other and have their own roles to play. Just like your body, all organs inside your body works together although they are separated. They are tight connected and won’t function properly if one of them is stop! :)

Feature has an important role play in any product. Especially Electronic Products, you will find product that have many features attached bait customer attention. For example, motherboard is a kind of product which developers can attach many features on it.

The reason for feature to come after quality is because feature is an optional things to include in a product. While quality is a “must-have” element, you can sacrifice features for cheapest prices.

To be illustrative, Let’s imagine Quality as your Body & Organs, Brand as your Soul and Features as your body accessories (Dress, earrings, Wigs, Nail, Hair, etc). Body allow you to have a ability to move around and Soul will give you a “Human” habit to communicate with other.


But you can sacrifice all of the features from your product! You’ll get nothing but a piece of junk that won’t do anything although it has a greatest quality in this world and Most Famous brand printed on it!

You need to decide which feature is worth to have and which is worthless!

How to decide, you say? Hmm…

Okey, here is my How-To tips in choosing features.

I’m not mean to teach you here…! :-( I’m just sharing my personal experience to you and I hope it will useful for you.

1. Do my key 1. This is the goal maker.
2. Ask yourself, “What is my need?”
3. Again, ask yourself, “What is the thing I don’t need?
4. Make Note of them.
5. And From the note, try to figure out features that suit your note.
6. Devide them into their category of worth and worthless.

I believe, What’s my real need will become the features that I want to choose, or the worth to have one. And What I don’t need will become my list of worthless features.

I always give you an example! Don’t worry. He-he!

My example will be the day I bought my last motherboard. I define What is my need like this:

* I want motherboard that support Core 2 Duo (Non EM64T)
* Intel Based Motherboard
* DDR2 Dual Channel Memory System
* Have 4 SATA-II Connectors for fast data transfer
* Have integrated Audio and Graphic card.

I also define what features that I don’t want to have in my motherboard:

  • EM64T, I will not using 64bit OS. So it is useless to have this feature.
  • I don’t need decent overclocking system bios motherboard.
  • Non Dual Bios. One bios is enough.
  • No need for a ATX size of board. Micro-ATX is more that enough.
  • No serial and parallel port on the back panel. USB is enough for me.
  • 8 Channel Audio is useless. I don’t need that much jacks.
  • No need of PCI express slot. This board in for office work. Not for playing game or design.
  • SLI-Ready? No, That’s just waste my money. This feature will not include too!
  • Etc, etc.

You see? I have wiped out a lot of features. All I have to do now is to research-research-and-research. Until I get what I want, I won’t buy anything. Sometimes, I could cut down 30 to 50 bucks by defining these data!

Trust me or not, it’s your right! :smile:

Okey, I hope my tips will useful for you. Please leave your comment if you have your own idea. I’d love to hear your feedback!

You have use this key to open another door. One more key, you will learn all my life principle to shopping cheapest product. Although I’m still young enough to share you my life principle, I hope you won’t look down on me and kick me out of your rss reader! :oops:

I’m trying my best to provide you my tips and tricks. And I hope you’ll enjoy your reading.

See you in next post! Wish you a best luck! :wink:

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Comment by Bill Compton
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2007-06-04 19:14:42

Hi Jim. Photos i received. Thanks

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