Is it just me or is this the damn Apocalypse? I can't seem to find any hardware in stock for low-medium builds. TR's own MARCH 2012 system guide motherboard "Asus P8H67-V" is out of stock and looks almost like its discontinued. I'm seriously getting pretty fed up with the **** excuses by hardware manufacturers claiming yield issues and other setbacks. I get the honest feeling that the majority of the issues in the industry are coming from a large mass exodus of experienced business men being replaced by none other than my own generation of in-experienced wannabes, any truth to this? Its like none of them know how to meet a deadline and they are all in such a rush to push out the next thing instead of refining the existing products.
Hell finding anything smaller than a 21.5" LCD is near impossible. Go ahead and look at newegg's 20" monitors, or 19", sure there are a few of the crappy res 18.5" (The newer size) and a good bunch of them without even DVI or HDMI. You pretty much have to go from 18.5" to 23" and the price jump is enough to make your head spin. Its hard to find that perfect middle ground as customers think there 17" 4:3 is still good enough. Then they get a bit confused as they don't notice any quality difference in videos and are upset. In order to get into the 1920x1080 range you either buy a 23" or a more expensive (around 180-200) for a 21.5".
The whole thing has me seriously pissed to be in the business of building/selling computers as it leaves me with little to no wiggle room to make my customers happy or meet a decent price mark. I feel like I can offer them an ITX system that's way to under-powered (not the skt 1155 ones) or a normal mid-tower for right under a grand. Ouch man.