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I know I'm cynical, and perhaps a bit arrogant, but it's difficult to be constantly attacked by black Friday and Christmas ads that cater towards the uninformed consumer who only sees price as a motivating factor. As a society, we just don't have the critical thinking skills necessary to buy good products. It makes the holidays very difficult for me, watching everybody spending their hard-earned money on junk that's going to break in a year when they coukd be spending the same amount (or LESS!) On high quality goods made to last.
Sorry, bit of a random rant...that's been on my mind a lot lately and this was the perfect chance to let it out. It's difficult to even find high quality components because the sad truth is, nobody knows the difference or cares, so companies skimp out on any part the consumers aren't focused on.
Looks like you still have a long ways to go in understanding people, companies, or even basic respect.
I'm sharing personal experience that I have seen, so i don't understand how that coukd even be "right" or "wrong"...but considering I've seen it happen hundreds of times, I'd day that's enough data to form an opinion, especially since it's from multiple sources...not to mention the years I have spent on over clock forums where there are still plenty of people who ONLY care about the wattage. It's the same way I see lots of over clocks that just crank up the voltage and never scale it back...it's another one of those things people don't think about.
Anyways, if you want to be a jerk about something, it really does help your case to be right. Since you arent, you can kindly shut the fuck up ^_^ (I'm not going to treat you any nicer than you treat me...plus, like I said, I have the benefit of being right!)
Any time you have a poorly understood "specification", you're going ti have company is preying on consukers, or at the least taking advantage of it. For example, the wattage of something depends on the impedance at the time of measurement...same deal with contrast ratio in TVs, the list goes on and on.
So yeah, companies really don't give a shit about certain things, and a power supply is unfortunately one of those things. They'd rather use a super cheap one and replace it if it dies within warranty...that's still cheaper to them than using the expensive supply and raising the price of the PC, making it seem like less of a deal. When you skimp in the areas people don't care as much about, you end up with a product at a much more competitive price...MSI has always been this way, it's not surprising in the slightest that they aren't using super high quality parts in their prebuilt