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 or
here). 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). As my
mac gaming site 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.
... 4-pin 
