What hardware companies do you dislike the most?

[SuperSix]

Me? AMD and ATI mostly

Why?

AMD - I don't care how successful they were before their stint at the top, if you had to deal with as many issues as Jonny and I had to when they were too stupid to use a heat spreader, you would hate them too. (Cracked cores anyone?)

ATI - I never got the bad taste out of my mouth for their pre-Catalyst driver issues.. Yeah - TRY to remove them and do a fresh driver install. I Dare ya!

There's more, I will add to the list as I see fit. :)

I guess you could call me an Intel/Nvidia fanboi..

But I see things different than most, as I am a computer hardware wholesale salesman, and have seen a lot of companies come and go, and overall, Intel is a STABLE, and (now) FAST choice.

[Spectre]

I can think of a few. One in particular.

Intel is a STABLE,

As opposed to?

[CAD4466HK]

I have 3,
Dell
HP
Gateway

All in that order. They make my job a nightmare!:mad:

[dBTelos]

Compaq
Corsair RAM
ATI
Aspire

[jonnyGURU]

...when they were too stupid to use a heat spreader, you would hate them too. (Cracked cores anyone?)

You mean too stupid to NOT use a heat spreader, right?

[CAD4466HK]

I have 3,
Dell
HP
Gateway

All in that order. They make my job a nightmare!:mad:

I know,HARDWARE manufactures:wall:

eVGA, you know why
Creative,for making me toss my beloved Audigy 4 for my X-FI, to many RMA's for the ever goin on meltdowns of the front panel.

Leadtec,for the worse customer service on the planet!

[SuperSix]

You mean too stupid to NOT use a heat spreader, right?


Correct. Remember the PILES of RMAs from those? :mad:

Literally, STACKS of AMD CPUs with cracked cores. Granted, the majority of the errors were user-induced, but I would venture that 80% of the returns could have been avoided if they had used a heat spreader.

Spectre..

Yes, I believe Intel to be a more sable platform overall, when used with the right components.

As I used to say (Before C2d), "Gaming? Overclocking? AMD all the way/ If you want a no-brainer, solid PC - Intel"

[Oklahoma Wolf]

Pinnicrap, I mean, Pinnacle for making a video capture card and then not supporting it properly under 2k or XP.

[SuperSix]

I also don't like Hauppage, I know their hardware may be tits, but the software looks like it's right our of a Win98 ad..

HORRIBLE software (PVR-150)

[Bbq]

Asus. Ugh. I had to deal with the dead chipset fan issue on the a8n-sli deluxe. The first one they send back to me, doesn't have a chipset heatsink or fan on it. Just a bare heatsink. Second one, they shipped me an a8n-e. Third one, the fan was broken before they packed it up. Four, They just sent it back like that. Fifth, I went and bought a DFI instead, which I then replaced with an abit. Never been happier.

[MrWicked1968]

thermaltake--I don't think they have any original ideas, their best cpu coolers weigh 2lbs, too many of their cases appeal to the boy-racer with a spoiler crowd

printer companies (epson, canon, hp)--for making ink cartridges cost more than their printers

creative--good sound cards, lousy software

[madmat]

Ummm...Deer

Aspire, both of those should require no explanation...

PNY, don't get me started there.

I'm sure there's others but I'm drawing a blank here.

[Oklahoma Wolf]

I would have said Deer too, but my feelings for them go beyond dislike to a darker place ;)

[Bbq]

You mean like a crowbar-behind-the-dark-alley type of darker place? ;)

[CAD4466HK]

You mean like a crowbar-behind-the-dark-alley type of darker place? ;)

lol

[KorruptioN]

Thermaltake ranks high up.

[davidhammock200]

Thermaltake ranks high up.Same! lol

[Super Nade]

I don't dislike any company per-se, but I do have a list of products/companies I just will not buy due to either poor customer service, viral marketing or crappy build quality.

1.Raidmax PSU's for poor quality
2.Retail Mushkin products (I do not like their marketing practices)
3.BFG Videocards (bad experience with the 6800 series)
4.Anything made by PNY (especially DRAM and Video cards)
5.HP laptops
6.Anything labelled "Mac/Apple"
7.Guns
8.Sony multi-media
9.Arctic-Silencer/Cooling products (Crappy fans on GPU coolers)
10. Audio transformers from Radioshack.

[Oklahoma Wolf]

Now that someone brought them up in the favorites thread, I have one more to add - Sony. In general. Even though I'm typing this on a Dell P991 which is OEM Sony.

As an independant electronics tech, I've rarely met a company that made it as hard as Sony does to fix their stuff. Just getting needed info from them is a lesson in frustration. And I've had to fix lots of their stuff, though most of the time I end up turning down Sony repairs from outside the family out of a desire to save my own sanity. I've been inside this very Dell on more than one occasion trying to get it to quit glitching out every so often on me. And don't get me started on rootkits and batteries ;)

But, somehow the Dell keeps on going and going despite it being a factory refurb that was dirt cheap to begin with. It's been 3 years now since I got it - still works. If it dies tomorrow I won't replace it with another OEM Sony, but neither will I regret the initial cost. Before it I was chewing up monitors by the year.

[Bbq]

I chew up keyboards 4 a year :\

Except the IBM Model M. My (old) (new) (old) one is still going strong.

[Baron]

thermaltake--I don't think they have any original ideas, their best cpu coolers weigh 2lbs, too many of their cases appeal to the boy-racer with a spoiler crowd





Ummmmm....I rather like my Kandalf case and I am 60.....:o

[MrWicked1968]

Ummmmm....I rather like my Kandalf case and I am 60.....:o

which is why I said "too many" and not "all"

[Slartibartfast]

PNY:
The last PNY stuff I had was 3x 256mb sticks of PC133, to go into three Athlon systems all running on the same mobo. Each stick would show a different amount of memory on a different mobo. And no, there was no correlations between which board and how much.

Western Digital.
Last WD HD I bought lasted five hours. The one before that about 3 months.

[Slartibartfast]

I'm also going to add that I'm irritated with apple right now: I ordered my macbook ~2 weeks ago, and just yesterday they not only upgraded the unit I got to a core 2, but they halved the memory upgrade prices. I could have saved $300 if I waited two weeks, and gotten something better :wall: :rant:

[Sphere]

Via chipsets drivers, the most atrocious I have ever used/helped others with.