Better engineering can lead to weight reduction. Switching supplies are,
after all, about size and weight reduction. Money into weight reduction
means a saving in shipping, maybe several times. 

Some supplies on first generation (8086) PCs included large ball-bearing
fans that cost more than entire power supplies today. (And, due to
attendant quality, those fans would still be running, 24/7 20 years
later.)

There ARE comparative reviews of power supplies to be found online.

said Harry, stirred by:
     Felix Miata 's message of:
     Thursday 12 Jan 06 at 07:30 PM,
     On: Re: [OS2HW] PSU prices: Was IDE-SATA
     [echoed below, at least in part]

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Ray Davison wrote:
 
> How do you define "top brand"?  They all come out of China,
the market
> is cut throat, junk cannot survive in this market.  The price
> difference is marketing.  Mostly a pretty box.

Actually there's more. Shop by weight. You need some copper in there
for it to be good. The light ones are the cheap ones, regardless of
brand and price, but the low price ones tend to be the lightest ones,
those most likely to fall short of their advertised specs, or to fail
prematurely and destroy your motherboard, CPU & RAM in the process. -- 
"Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord."        Psalm 33:12 NIV

 Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409

Felix Miata  ***  http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/
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