Gear you own/owned that you hate...

[iGary]

I HATE my Lacie 1TB external drive. I have it well away and under the desk and I can hear it grinding away like an old-fashioned grain mill.

Last night, I wanted to throw my ip4000r printer through the window because it wasn't playing nice with the G5 I could wirelessly print test pages etc., but I couldn't print from any applications.

I hated my Canon Digital Rebel. Worst. Ergonomics. Ever.

Anyone else have a product they owned and hated?

[Chaszmyr]

I had an m-audio mobile pre, and I don't know if it was defective or what, but it had a huge amount of static in anything it recorded, I returned it and got an iMic (for considerably cheaper) which worked much better.

I also had a Lexmark Z65 printer which was just a total piece of junk.

[Chaszmyr]

I hated my Canon Digital Rebel. Worst. Ergonomics. Ever.

I've never even touched a Digital Rebel, but I'm surprised you hated it so much. I've heard pretty good things about it, and I have a Canon EOS-D60 that I'm very happy with.

[iGary]

I had an m-audio mobile pre, and I don't know if it was defective or what, but it had a huge amount of static in anything it recorded, I returned it and got an iMic (for considerably cheaper) which worked much better.

I also had a Lexmark Z65 printer which was just a total piece of junk.

Lexmark's low end printers do indeed blow.

I literally threw one (a Z45 I think) out of my boat and into the water when I lived aboard.

[gwuMACaddict]

i used to borrow my brother's sony mini-disc player back in the day... what a piece of crap... so hard to make tracks and record songs to it, etc... gross...

[iGary]

I've never even touched a Digital Rebel, but I'm surprised you hated it so much. I've heard pretty good things about it, and I have a Canon EOS-D60 that I'm very happy with.

Without starting a Rebel debate - I like the scroll wheel not the push buttons. The plasticky feel just never did it for me.

Slow, slower slowest.

It worked flawlessly, but I just didn't like it. I suppose for the price it was a good camera.

[mpw]

Peugeot 307SW SE 2.0ltr petrol - too many issue to list

Renault Clio 'Easy-matic' - Worst gearbox I've ever used, it has a mind of it's own and sometimes won't shift up to 2nd until 6000rpm so you look a tosser screaming through town.

[Doozy]

Every shredder I have ever bought has been a P.O.S. Why can't someone make a good one that doesn't jam, or just stop working for no reason.

Now, I buy an extended warranties on them so I can just get the shredder replaced after it breaks. But it is a pain in the !@#$%

[dubbz]

Besides the obligatory Lexmark printer, I used to have a 28.8kpbs modem that never worked reliably. Whould just completely stop working at times, and when it worked it was often dreadfully slow (even for a 28.8kbps modem). I suffered for years with that thing.

Hacked it into pieces with an axe after I got a new modem.

[SummerBreeze]

During my senior year of high school my parents bought me a Dell inspiron laptop. It was a piece, and it eventually blew up (not even joking, the power cord started sparking and the computer didn't turn on). Worst experience of my life.

[mduser63]

My last PC. At first I really liked it, and to be honest it served me well, but by the time every single hardware component in it failed and it filled up with viruses, I grew to hate it. Other than that, I can't really think of any gear I've owned and hated. I guess I'm lucky, because I've got a lot of electronic gadgets and none of them have ever really broken, or if they have broken, I've been able to fix them myself.

[stoid]

Got a Compaq 7550 CRT monitor as a stop gap until I get enough money to afford a nice LCD (Apple 23"), but that won't happen until I graduate. It was only $100, but had good reviews and 1600x1200 res. Unfortunately, the clarity at highest res is terrible and the refresh rate too slow, so I use it at 1344x1008. And it squeals high-pitched occasionally, and I have to shut it off for a few minutes. I hate it, but I have to live with it for at least another 12-18 months.

Just audited my classes preparing to signup for spring courses. I only need 34 more hours to graduate with a double major. Not bad considering I'm now finishing up my 5th semester. I could get out in 3 and a half years with a double major if I didn't have to stick around because certain classes are only offered one semester a year. I'll have to stuff at least one elective in there just to remain a full-time student for three more semesters.

[Lacero]

Paid $500 for a USB 2x CD-Burner (candy colored from some third-rate Asian company) that couldn't burn 2x without sensekey errors. Stuck burning at 1x CD speeds!!

P.O.S. crapola. I still have it. POS reminds me why I should always buy name-brand and from good, trustworthy reviews. POS!

[slu]

A Canon ZR60 DV Video Camera. Took horible quality video and then stopped recording anything but black a few months after the warranty expired.

Which is strange since I normally have good luck with Canon. I will never buy a Canon lowend video camera again.

I had a crappy Lexmark Printer as well.

[devman]

Yep I HATE HATE HATE HATE my LaCie 1TB drive also - noisy piece of junk.

[iGary]

Yep I HATE HATE HATE HATE my LaCie 1TB drive also - noisy piece of junk.

I'm on the verge of buying a 20' cable for the thing and putting it in a closet it is so bad.

POS :rolleyes:

I don't think I have ever hated a product so much.

Tech support "It's the low-level fans."

"You mean the one's that sound like someone grinding coffee beans?"

Asshats.

[carpe diem]

Or even better since i believe its ethernet compatible put it in a hosting center and use it from there

[aquajet]

Dell Inspiron 3200 I got for high school graduation several years ago. Over the course of five years, there were three bad hard drives, cracked hinges, crackly speakers, and a faulty LCD backlight. That thing was a complete piece. RIHell, you piece of crap.:mad:

[devman]

I'm on the verge of buying a 20' cable for the thing and putting it in a closet it is so bad.

You should do that. I can't imagine how you can work with the thing in the same room as you. I bought mine with the intention of attaching it to my powermac. I had to change plans (after the second 1TB drive proved the problem is their design) and I moved the 1TB drive to be attached to my mac mini (server) and then located both of those in a cupboard in the kitchen (my office is in a separate building in the backyard). Then I put in a 300GB Maxtor as drive 2 in the powermac.

Not what I wanted but it seemed the best way out after shelling out a lot of bucks the for 1TB coffee grinder.

POS :rolleyes:

I don't think I have ever hated a product so much.

Tech support "It's the low-level fans."

"You mean the one's that sound like someone grinding coffee beans?"

Asshats.

Yeah they told me it was just fans and normal the first time too. They replaced the drive but the replacement was exactly the same...

[2nyRiggz]

i hated my compaq 2100 notebook. I had it for a month and it started freaking out on me. It would shut down on its own and never wake up. From the moment i bought that thing its been given me problems so i got rid of it the best way i know how........i gave it to my sister.....and yet i'm still fixing it cuz shes calling me on the horn bugging me.



Bless

[PlaceofDis]

my old PDA what a POS
my parents Compaq is crap too

[csubear]

IBook G3 900 MHZ, Two logic board failures ;(

Sony NetMD, Biggest piece of crap music player ever!

[JW8725]

Number 1 most hated thing ever goes to my LaCie d2 Extreme. I will never buy LaCie HDs again frankly. The noise gives me nightmares.

In contrast, my Canon Digital Rebel XT is awesome! Fits fine in my hand, takes stunning pics so big thumbs up.

Don't stone me but my mini has annoyed me somewhat too. The darn beachball steals productive time every single day. Even though I've maxed it with 1 gig. Its getting sold off for pastures greener i.e. Powermac time!

I hate my Linn preamp. Makes noise when I change inputs. It's going on flea bay soonish.

Love my Tudor Prince day-date California Dial watch. I even wear it to bed! Recommend you all get one...etc.

[mjstew33]

Epson Stylus 740 Color printer :mad:. Thing drove me nuts -- wouldn't play nice ever with my iMac G3 333MHz. :o

Now it's just collection dust :D

[mcarnes]

MS Word and Excel. I always make an honest attempt to use them but it's so damn frustrating I end up launching AppleWorks to get the job done.

The Senn HD650 was a disappointing phone. Boomy, sloppy bass. Nothing beats the Grado RS-1 for clean, tight bass.

Back in the day, every Kodak transparency film I tried was dissappointing. Only Fuji knew how to make decent chromes (Velvia, Provia, Astia).

Do women count here?

[zv470]

I hate my T68i cellphone. hehe.

[zap2]

my 'free' printer from Apple, its an Espon C86 and it SUCKS!:mad: if i had paid for it i would have been mad!

[barneygumble]

Both of my nokia mobile phones, one work and one personal, they are the work of the devil

[DeSnousa]

My palm PDA, don't get me wrong there is no flow in it. It's just I device I barley use and wasted money on. Thus I hate it.

[Artful Dodger]

Let's see...HP2110 all-in-one, big suck. Then the Epson scanner which went back two days later and (you get what you pay for) Canon Z70 camcorder (went back same day). That's about it as I read about everything way more than I used to do. Almost forgot Netgear router, as I thought my iBook at the time was bad (a day old) called AppleCare and spent 90 mins. on the phone with three different people trying to get it working (never did).

[OutThere]

Epson Stylus 740 Color printer :mad:. Thing drove me nuts -- wouldn't play nice ever with my iMac G3 333MHz. :o

Now it's just collection dust :D

I had a Stylus 740! (I think that was the model number). :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

It never worked right, and then one day it just didn't turn on. :rolleyes:

[mcmillan]

I had a Stylus 740! (I think that was the model number). :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

It never worked right, and then one day it just didn't turn on. :rolleyes:
Are you guys crazy?! (no offense) That's like the best printer ever, seriously, it works better than any other printer that I've ever used/own. It was cheap, and it still works perfectly. I've printed a few photos with it, and they're still shinny. Its ink cartridges last a lot, and they aren't that expensive (I used a Canon with cheap ink that lasted just a few week each cartridge). It works perfectly with PCs and Macs, and I haven't had problems with drivers. A b/w page prints like in 15 secs which is fast enough for me.

I could do a commercial about the 740 :p

Your guys are just bad luck for that printer :D

See this (http://www.epinions.com/pr-Printers_Epson_Stylus_Color_740_Personal_Printer_Printer_C257001_N/display_~reviews/pp_~1/sort_~date/sort_dir_~des/sec_~opinion_list) good reviews (most of them)

[yuwing]

bought Sony MD walkman. the software was ******** - very buggy, heavy on resources and slow. after a few years, the player crapped out and couldn't record anymore @_@ for some reason. maybe becuase it's the software running on xp... cuz i recently switched from 2000.

The player itself was okay, but i didn't like the fact that i had to convert everything. Why not just ****ing burn the mp3 on the disk and let it play! god!

[dotdotdot]

I got this cool thing that you are able to switch the computer's boot drive by simply powering off, pulling out one HD and putting the other in. It works perfectly.

But, when we first removed the HD and put that in, my HD recieved a shock and is dead, along with all my files and everything.

But it all worked out because I got a 300 Gig HD instead of an 80 gig one (300 gig was on sale for $130), and I have another 80 gig just for Linux.

Linux also is annoying because its incompatible with every thing I own. I can't even get online with it. And its slow and buggy and impossible to install stuff. Yeah, its bad.

And finally, while its amazing and I never regret it, my Logitech MX1000 laser mouse's battery life is only like 3 days, and I use my computer whenever I'm home, so I always need to find another mouse and use that for like 4 hours while it charges. But once its charged its awesome.

[iSaint]

Compaq SBW500o Series dekstopwfteveerposjunque gave me trouble from day one. Booted up my wife's Dell laptop from her work tonight...pos takes forever to boot, find wifi card, connect to my Airport Express. Well, it's just f'in Windows in general. Good grief what junk!

[EricBrian]

I literally threw one (a Z45 I think) out of my boat and into the water when I lived aboard.

Time for anger management course? LOL

[EricBrian]

I can't remember what it was exactly, but it was some kind of e-book reader believe it was from Franklin but wouldn't swear on it... Hated it. Used it once.

After I switched, started to hate working with Windoze.

[jadekitty24]

My first "real" computer...a Compaq something or other Pentium 3 pc. From the factory it was loaded with spyware, the modem was not attatched properly, the list goes on. I wasted so much time on problems that shouldn't have existed in the first place. I realize I was one of the unlucky ones who just got a bad piece of equipment, and the computer itself probably wasn't horrible, but I hear the name Compaq and I just shudder. See? I just typed Compaq and now I'm shuddering!! Oh! Oh! Look! I did it again!!
Yeesh...

[dubbz]

And finally, while its amazing and I never regret it, my Logitech MX1000 laser mouse's battery life is only like 3 days, and I use my computer whenever I'm home, so I always need to find another mouse and use that for like 4 hours while it charges. But once its charged its awesome.

Small tips: Put it in the charger when you're not using using it. ;)

But, yes, it can be annoying. Sometimes I forget it, and then I have to another mouse while it's charging.

[Dane D.]

Worst car I ever owned. What took me over the edge was the transmission went out at 64k because of some nylon gear gave out. Of course they wouldn't cover it since warranty ran out at 60k. Never again am I buying a Ford.

[JDOG_]

A 27" TV by APEX. Man is that thing a P.O.S.

In hindsight I think my dad easily would have spent the extra $50-75 to go with a better manufacturer.

EDIT: Also a 900 mhz. Thinkpad T31. That thing was alright for a few years but good lord did it have more problems than a SAT.

[atari1356]

I'll add another vote for the Epson Stylus 740... mine worked fine at first, but after a few months the prints became a big streaky mess - even after changing print cartridges.

I'm also starting to despise GE phones. I've had two now, where certain numbers on the number pad wear out. The one I have now I have to press "9" really hard to get it to work... my previous phone had a few numbers that just stopped working completely (even though the phone wasn't used that much).

[khisayruou]

Another for Nokia cell phones. I had two, they are easy to use but they are way behind in design. Mine was a size of a brick and weighed like one too!
Not really gear, but the biggest mistake in my life was purchasing
baseball cards and comics expecting a great fortune when I got older (dont mean to bash those that do still collect but mine is sitting here losing its value and sentiment) I think I will dust off my bike and shove a card or two in the spokes to rattle...like when i was a kid.

[OnceUGoMac]

I hated the Powerglove for the NES. It was difficult to use and was so overpriced. Damned movie (The Wizard) made me believe.

[JDOG_]

I hated the Powerglove for the NES. It was difficult to use and was so overpriced. Damned movie (The Wizard) made me believe.


YES!!! This thing was damn hard to use, especially because I'm a lefty. Freaking Nintendo.

Now the Superscope 16 on the other hand...that thing kicked ass...too bad only like 3 games used it.

[Daveway]

I DESPISE my Gateway 400SP laptop. What I hate more is that I paid over $2000 for that POS.
NOISY
HEAVY
ILL CONSTRUCTION
DEFECTIVE POWER CORD
OVER HEATING

Went into service center 8 times! Nothing but a bad memory.

[DonBot]

I hated my Gameboy Color, pretty worthless IMO. I've also been through a Sharp cellphone that looked nice, great camera, great screen but no battery. No other bad things I can think of.

[Melkor]

I hated my old semiens mobile phone. Useless piece of crap kept turning off on me and the 1cmx1cm (jk, but it was ****ing tiny) screen scratched really easily.

I also despise my PC with a passion. My Norton Antivirus doesn't work anymore and the thing is full of viruses and pop ups galore. :mad:

[shadowmoses]

SOmetimes i hate my Sony Ericsson K700i cos the thumbstick will occasionally decide not to work.....deeming the phone pretty much un unusable for a while,

Shadow

[Moxiemike]

2000 vw jetta that lost reverse at 28k miles, and pretty much went to crap afterwards.

2 canon 10d's that backfocused immensely.

and a nikon 24-85mm lens that collected dust like a mighty good maid.

[crazzyeddie]

SyQuest SyJet. Yes, a very old piece of equipment that I'm still angry about. I spent over $300 on it back in the day, and less than a year later it just decided to die. No refund, no nothing.

Also, I second the Epson 740 printer.

[jdechko]

I dislike my Sony VAIO R505GL laptop... its the smaller one from a few years ago that has the docking station with the CD-RW/DVD drive and floppy... I rarely get a chance to use the docking station because it's always on the go, so when I do dock it back up Windows is like WTF is that? iTunes crashes every time I burn (Windows' fault) And the drive names always get messed up when I do it. (A, C, D & E are External FW), G is CD/DVD, R is Built in Mem Stick, F & L are office network drives)... too many of them .... It maxed out on RAM the day I bought it at a whopping 384 megs. It has a 30Gb hard drive, and it is a P3m 1.2. It takes forever to load AutoCAD and/or Photoshop and cant do both at the same time. It only has USB 1.1 (but it does have FW :D ... 4-pin :( ) No built in wireless... so i have an ugly card sticking out. And its not a powerbook... I'll admit, though... the day I got it I was filled with glee... then, when I bought an iPod I realized that Apples didnt suck... I wish I would have explored the options better and bought a TiBook instead.

[Platform]

My keyboard....Filand....some real crap:mad: and my XP OS:p

[cubist]

I have a Belkin DVI/USB KVM. Great idea... terrible product. When I last used it, I was just switching the video, using a switchbox to switch the USB. Now it sits in a drawer.

[PharmD]

My Compaq laptop from '99 that prompted me to backup my data and crashed as a result.
My Kodak digital camera that took seriously 5 sec to take a picture and couldn't hold a charge to save its life.
My IBM Thinkpad T42p which I bought through my school. I guess it was a nice machine but I had switched since then so I sold it for my current iBook.

[Marky_Mark]

1. My ex-fiance who went nuts and then went awol (it's a very long story) :rolleyes:

2. Motorola Timeport tri-band phone - what a clunky POS that was. You needed a degree in upside-down-wrong-way-round to be able to navigate the menus. I'm sure it was something like 15 key-presses just to get to 'compose new message' :mad:

[mms]

1. My ex-fiance who went nuts and then went awol (it's a very long story) :rolleyes:
Title of the thread - Gear you own/owned that you hate...
Slave trade? :D

[Marky_Mark]

Title of the thread - Gear you own/owned that you hate...
Slave trade? :D

So that's why she legged it. The mystery is no more! ;)

[ReanimationLP]

My Epson 740. Bought it secondhand, worked for a month, then POOF. Mr. Printer blew up. o.o

My HP Laserjet 4's JetDirect Card. It keeps frigging changing the IP addy. >.< Luckily I got a brand new one for it. (This was shrink wrapped and everything in the box, from 15 years past. O.O)

Sooo...

iGary. If you cant deal with the noise, I'd be happy to drive by and take it off your hands. :D

I'm so used to noise due to my AMD64 box. I put lots of fans in it to keep it very very cool. :D

1 TB of storage = Dude, I think I just filled the cup. :eek:

[rockthecasbah]

my Speck iPod skin, it cost $20 and doesn't even have a screen protector!!! Plus, i can't even fit it in my pockets because the material is so odd that the pockets get caught on it and won't let it move anymore. Now that crap just sits here by my desk.:mad:

edit: bought it online and didn't feel like going through the hassle of returning.

[lopresmb]

My CURRENT piece of junk computer....

its a Compaq, which I will never buy again (even if I were to ever get a PC again) but, it....
1) I had replaced EVERY part on the computer within the First year of owning it (bad motherboard, speakers blown, 2 Compaq CRT monitors died, Printer didn't even have USB)
2) it doesn't even come close to working now (still bad motherboard, optical drives died - using an external, sometimes it doens't like to recognise the HD is connected and will say that it can't find the OS when starting up).


--I will never buy anything from compaq ever again...(I shouldn't have in the first place, but it was just a lapse of judgement about 6 years ago).

[DarkNetworks]

iBook G4s...pretty lame machine...everyone in town has it!

[OutThere]

iBook G4s...pretty lame machine...everyone in town has it!

I think they're really good machines...very durable and decently powerful with huge battery life. Think 12" Powerbook in impact resistant plastic. :)

[jadekitty24]

iBook G4s...pretty lame machine...everyone in town has it!
I don't...wanna throw one my way???;)

[sushi]

iBook G4s...pretty lame machine...everyone in town has it!I don't...wanna throw one my way???;)
Same here. I'll take it. :D

Sushi

[Marky_Mark]

iBook G4s...pretty lame machine...everyone in town has it!

Nothing wrong with an iBook, my friend. Class piece of kit. Strong. Capable. Durable. Cheap. Which aspect is not to like?

[biohazard6969]

ROGERS F**IN "HIGH SPEED" INTERNET!!!! ugh so damn unreliable, cuts out all the time, i can't get through a single game of anythign online without lagging out, someetimes it will go out, i'll call them and they blame me for owning a mac and airport!!!!! then i yell at them...acutally, when i'm pissed i'll sometimes jsut call up rogers and vent :p i'd change the servise but bell highspeed isn't available in myt area for some reason....i should yell at them too cause i'm in the middle of the city (not really but close enough)

[jefhatfield]

i seemed to have a lot of trouble with the epson 740 printer even though when it worked, it printed great images...and i had three of them and had the same pesky issues of clogged or streaky images which came up again and again

my lexmark z23 does not have the great images, but it is far more reliable and never gives me trouble and i have had it well over two years...and now that i print only when i need to and that i only seem to print in black ink, the lexmark is good enough to get the job done

gone are the days where i need to print every pretty picture i see on the internet or experiment that i make in photoshop or illustrator

[AmericanIdiot12]

my itrip sucks

[maddav]

I've had a clear out of all the things i hate(d) / never use(d)!!

PSP: eBay

Lacie DVD+-R/RW DL Drive: eBay

Xbox: eBay

[Santaduck]

Hate:

Apple Airport Extreme Base Station: What? No monitoring of who's connected in the default admin app? What? Only 20 entries max for port forwarding??? what? Poor range compared to comparable routers? And only one ethernet port? The USB printer port I no longer use either b/c I couldn't get any of my epson or hp printer utilites to access the printer's utility functions unless it was directly connected to the computer.

Apple Airport Base Station (Graphite): The capacitor problem is famous. Yes I had a soldering iron and went to RadioShack for a quick fix, but a product shouldn't be prone do completely dying on you just because of the voltage shock of turning it on.


Apple Mighty Mouse-- for obvious reasons. I'll try to sell mine on ebay.

40G stock BTO upgrade in Apple Cube-- it was the largest drive available at the time, and it was the noisiest high-pitched whiny Maxtor ever, totally making irrelevant the Cube's fanless quietness. Since upgraded to a 120G Western Digital.

Compaq Presario 2500 laptop: at least it's under warranty, but i've replaced the display twice, as well as the HD, all within 2 yrs. And OMFG OMFG OMFG their outsourced tech support customer service to India (and I love India) was among the worst customer support experiences I have ever had, and I had to go through it twice-- now my warranty is a domestic 3rd party extended-warranty vendor, so I don't have to deal with that but no way will I buy from compaq/HP again. Love it otherwise as my lone XP 'box', as I'd never buy a G4 laptop (went iac G5 instead).

Sennheiser behind-the-neck headphones: I <3 behind-the-ear, but these ergonomics were bad and hurt the top of my ears, and the sound was way too harsh on the treble end-- extensive 'burn in' didn't help either. I wish Grado would make a behind-the-neck model that was comfortable, as I'm a big fan of their SR-60s at that price range. The ear-huggers will have to do.

HP inkjet printers: never owned one that lasted much longer than a year. Went Epson and am crossing my fingers.

Verizon DSL: I can count on at least 1 outage per month on average. Add to that frequent DNS problems, so mysteriously large portions of the Net are inaccessible for months at a time (e.g. google "Megatokyo & verizon" or read here (http://www.megatokyo.com/index.php?strip_id=683) or here (http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=293733)). Add to that the nonworking status of their email filter functions (disabling filter wouldn't work, so I'd lose messages. Eventually I had to explicitly enable every top level domain I could think of). Add to that email routing to and from many addresses in western europe were blocked for months at time (you can google that as well or read this (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/21/verizon_class_action/)). As my mac gaming site (http://www.macologist.org) I founded was hosted in Europe, it was extremely inconvenient that I could not receive mail from my own domain or other hardware administrators. Add to that the constant changing of the verizon personal account functions-- I was promised an expansion of personal web space, but the function was always "under repair", then suddenly it was no longer offered. Verizon got bought out in my local area, so hopefully things will improve, and it's cheaper than cable atm. And why is it so freaking difficult to put a 'network status' link on the front page of the user page? I could never confirm outages, and it always took me at least 10-15 minutes of searching through the site and site map, and I could never find the status page, and eventually I'd find it via google. Atrocious.

[Nickygoat]

A Sharp minidisc player. A PITA to get music onto, and it really clouded my judgement over buying an iPod - I waited more than 2 years til buying one because I had such a bad experience. An Italian girl I worked with was using a Sony MD player as recently as 6 months ago - what a piece of cr** - that proves more about her though ;)
I also have a Magimix Duo juicer that has been used about 3 times - the end product is excellent, but I'm too lazy to use it.

[bigandy]

every pc i ever owned was the scourge of my existence. solution - macs.

my current sony TV. as my fellow scotsmen say, "it's pish". solution - new panasonic HDTV coming at christmas.

[homerjward]

i can add my benq dw1625 dvd burner. it was a great burner, very fast, never burned a coaster (except through user error) but this weekend it decided to stop reading any and all discs. period. :mad: and this is after like 4 months!
looks like i'm on the hunt for a new optical drive. i'm torn between a pioneer 110 or paying the extra dough for a high-end plextor (i've heard they're highly reliable, though expensive.)

[DarkNetworks]

Nothing wrong with an iBook, my friend. Class piece of kit. Strong. Capable. Durable. Cheap. Which aspect is not to like?

the small capacity of it's HD and the cheapness of it (almost everyone as one these days) which makes it pretty lame...yeah undoubtedly, it's kinda in a way, strong(if u have lots of RAM in it but my case, 256MB is pretty lame)....

[mpw]

...the cheapness of it (almost everyone as one these days) which makes it pretty lame...
What about legs. I went to the coffee shop the other day whipped out my iBook to do some surfing and felt quite smug as I was the only person in there with one but then this amputee came in and I was soo jealous as I realised that I was just like the rest of the losers in there with legs!:rolleyes:

[Marky_Mark]

the small capacity of it's HD and the cheapness of it (almost everyone as one these days) which makes it pretty lame...yeah undoubtedly, it's kinda in a way, strong(if u have lots of RAM in it but my case, 256MB is pretty lame)....

Blimey, there's just no pleasing some people. Buy a memory upgrade and a custom case, and fall in love all over again. :)

[DarkNetworks]

Blimey, there's just no pleasing some people. Buy a memory upgrade and a custom case, and fall in love all over again. :)

are there any custom case for the iBook? i didn't knoe that...recomendations?nah i'm noit thinking about spending any more money in that iBook...i'm buying a new laptop or desktop next year...well i dunno probally a new iMac or Powerbook but NOT iBook! or maybe i'll make a switch back and get one of those cool and extra portable IBM ThinkPads!!!

[Palad1]

My old guitar

Epiphone 'Les Paul' classic, 1992...

This POS couldn't even be called a "wooden plank", neck started bending after 6 months...

[kiwi-in-uk]

Hates:

3 x Epson printers
1 x Gateway laptop
1 x '84 Mazda 626 bought new
Many versions of MS Office (overengineered and past use-by date)
MS DOS, Windows (all versions)
1 x '78 Benelli bought new
1 x Ericsson phone
1 x house (an absolute money pit)

[Lertie32]

With Dave Letterman and stage band... :cool:

10. Palm IIIe - sad little chunk of plastic, but I suppose it was good in it's own time

9. HP LaserJet (1000a, I think)... scanner died the second time I used it

8. iMic - unintelligent mic that continued to record ambient noise even with a direct input plugged in

7. Viewsonic 19" monitor (G90, I think)... Spent almost $500 on this thing... had to ship it in for repairs ($65) after an early death at two years and they sent me back an OLDER refurbished unit that worked until 4 days after my 3 year warranty expired and then that one fried too.

6. HP inkjet... sad, sad, sad.

5. Olympus digital voice recorder. Sound quality is crap. I have yet to find a really GOOD recorder (using my Palm T3 voice memo recording for now). Any suggestions?

4. Dazzle DV Bridge - I spent like $350 on the thing and it just died one day...

3. Man, this is a close tie with #1 and #2... cable modems! Aughh... Time Warner sucks and Comcast blows! :mad:

2. Maxtor 80G hard drive - bad case connections that caused the HD to randomly disappear for days/weeks at a time and constantly scared the hell out of me. I finally ripped open the case and transplated the drive into an metalGear case - no problems since. Ohhh I hated that thing! :mad:

And the #1 most HATED gear...

1. ...every damn PC I've ever used!
:mad: :mad: :mad: