Shitty Hardware Brands - Brands that you will regret buying

[Michael Dummett]

I decided to start this thread because I bought a Dell Inspiron after my old Thinkpad T420 apparently kicked the bucket. Literally this piece of shit had problems from the get go: shitty Linux support, garbage keyboard and mousepad and worst of all, the bastards at Dell force you to use a first party AC adapter to charge the damned thing. That last part would have been fine if the AC adapter that came with the piece of shit worked. Instead, I have to use a third party AC adapter to run the laptop and I can't even charge it. I'm going to sell it to my dad in the hopes that I can at least get some of the money back from this waste of money and I bought another T420 from ebay for relatively cheap (don't worry, I told him all of the problems with this laptop and he has like 3 other laptops that work fine so he'll be fine). Long story short, never buy a Dell laptop.

 

[Μusk]

I have never heard anything good about Asus in relation to AMD products. They completely fuck over AMD motherboards and laptops. I don't know if it was the Radeon VII or the 5700, but one of those GPUs had poor screw tension, and the temperatures were abysmal. The whole "ROG" thing is shitty gamer branding too and its fucking annoying. MSI is second to worst IMO just because they also push this gamer crap and their products don't look to be of very good quality.
Anything Razer is pretty bad, although their keyboard quality has improved greatly as of recently with double-shot ABS keycaps and other technologies common on enthusiast mechanical keyboards, but its still quite expensive.
Laptops other than Thinkpad's and "workstation" laptops can die in a garbage can. Mass-produced plastic crap that breaks after a few months of handling.

 

[GHTD]

MSI is second to worst IMO just because they also push this gamer crap and their products don't look to be of very good quality.

I've had decent luck with my B450 TOMAHAWK motherboard. Depends on what you get with MSI, basically.

 

[Troonos]

Is it all Dell laptops, or just the Inspiron line? Are the G5 and G7 any good?

 

[Michael Dummett]

Is it all Dell laptops, or just the Inspiron line? Are the G5 and G7 any good?

According to this blog, they do this battery/power supply fuckery with pretty much all their laptop lines in order to increase their profits. Literal scum.

 

[Troonos]

According to this blog, they do this battery/power supply fuckery with pretty much all their laptop lines in order to increase their profits. Literal scum.

That blog post is from a decade ago...

 

[Not Really Here]

Spoiler: The worst collection of hardware ever.

 

[Michael Dummett]

That blog post is from a decade ago...

They are still doing this shit to this day. Literally nothing has changed in the past 10 years. You act like Apple doesn't do something very similar in fucking over its consumers and doing it for years and years.

 

[Basil II]

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[garakfan69]

the bastards at Dell force you to use a first party AC adapter to charge the damned thing

Pretty common for laptops to have their own proprietary connectors. Thinkpads do that to.
I guess that's changing now with USB-C though.

Is it all Dell laptops, or just the Inspiron line? Are the G5 and G7 any good?

Inspiron is Dell's cheap trash line.
Their actual workstation laptops ("Precision") are fine.
Have no experience with their gamer line but you should generally stay away from gaming laptops.

 

[SSF2T Old User]

I haven't had any issues with Dells, both for personal use and at work. My current desktop is almost 10 years old and it hasn't shat the bed once on me. I'm running Devuan Beowulf (Debian 10) on it and it does everything I need to do on it and more. The only thing it CAN'T do is high-end gaming that relies on up-to-date graphic cards to run properly. The CPU is Intel Pentium G630. When it comes to work computers, since I work in IT, anytime someone has issues with "slow speeds" or "freezes", I just give it a good disk cleaning and make sure all drivers are updated and then I don't hear a peep from anyone after that.

Then again, these are all desktops. I've NEVER had any good luck with laptops in general, whether it's Dell or ThinkPad. Laptops now-a-days use the cheapest parts and don't match the speed and/or performance of desktops in general. iPads and Android Tablets are more reliable than laptops at this point.

 

[Kikkoman]

NZXT. Their AIO/lighting software is a disaster even compared to the other shit in that segment, their cases are ovens, and whoever runs their twitter account cant read.

 

[Troonos]

They are still doing this shit to this day. Literally nothing has changed in the past 10 years. You act like Apple doesn't do something very similar in fucking over its consumers and doing it for years and years.

I've gotten the same issue from a genuine Lenovo charger on my Lenovo. Every other thread about this issue is 8-10 years old. What does Apple have to do with this? "A company that's notorious for forcing its retarded zealot users to buy massively overpriced official accessories" doesn't demonstrate that Dell is doing this today.

 

[Troonos]

Pretty common for laptops to have their own proprietary connectors. Thinkpads do that to.
I guess that's changing now with USB-C though.


Inspiron is Dell's cheap trash line.
Their actual workstation laptops ("Precision") are fine.
Have no experience with their gamer line but you should generally stay away from gaming laptops.

How do you find a 2080 and a 10th-gen i7 in a non-gaming laptop?

 

[Michael Dummett]

Pretty common for laptops to have their own proprietary connectors. Thinkpads do that to.
I guess that's changing now with USB-C though.

I'm not talking about having proprietary connectors for charging the battery. That's nothing new. I'm talking about being unable to use your laptop properly if you have 3rd party equipment that fits that proprietary port. You can use a 3rd party AC adapter with a Thinkpad and it will still charge properly. If you use a third party Dell AC adapter with an Inspiron, then the laptop will be powered on, but it won't charge. because they specifically made it so that you have to buy first hand AC adapters from them in order for it to charge it. That's not the same different brands having their own proprietary ports.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

Apple.

If i was gifted an imac i would straight up just sell it and buy myself a pc and monitor combo and it would probably be cheaper too. Same thing with iphones, would sell it right away. The "muh macs for design" thing is a big meme too, very outdated from when apple was more standard in the graphic industry, in the 80s or something. The only apple product i would own gladly is an ipad just because procreate, a tablet is much preferable to me than a laptop.

 

[malt ipecac]

If i was gifted an imac i would straight up just sell it and buy myself a pc and monitor combo and it would probably be cheaper too. Same thing with iphones, would sell it right away.

I'm curious: if your mother bought you a 2020 iPhone SE tomorrow, would you sell it and use that money to buy a non-Apple phone? If so, which phone would you buy?

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

I'm curious: if your mother bought you a 2020 iPhone SE tomorrow, would you sell it and use that money to buy a non-Apple phone? If so, which phone would you buy?

Yes, without question, i would not even open it. I would probably buy a samsung or any phone around 300$ range, i don't really care about smartphones anyways, i am perfectly fine as long as i get my emails.

 

[Just Some Other Guy]

I'm curious: if your mother bought you a 2020 iPhone SE tomorrow, would you sell it and use that money to buy a non-Apple phone? If so, which phone would you buy?

Xiaomi

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

How do you find a 2080 and a 10th-gen i7 in a non-gaming laptop?

Buy a laptop with a thunderbolt port.