Hardware you hate and why

[Nima D'Graven]

Meh, what types of hardware do you hate and why?

I say this because I'm at this computer in college and it has one of those annoying ball type mouses that won't ROLL properly...

So what pieces of hardware do you hate and why?

[GODJonez]

Crappy monitors. It is very important to be able to see clearly what there is on the computer screen.

[Del_Boy]

Groups of monitors where the pictures are both:

Not stretched to fill the screen
Running at the default 60hz

Both of those annoy me, so I of course have to change them myself. IMO though the tech department should get off their big fat lazy arses and do it themselves

[Uncle Evil]

I hate HP's and Celerons. Ive posted my reasons for HP many times and celerons just dont run very well for what i need to do

[Nima D'Graven]

Yeah, I was thinking about celerons..

Also this one: Anything onboard .

Do people really need the reasons for them?

[mushindo]

I hate the entire line of PC hardware. Much too slow for me "Optical computers" all the way. On a more practical note, Anything with cords. Such a pain

[ZeikHunter]

i hate small parts & tight spaces... having big hands, its a pain in the ass to have to reach into cramped spaces, then once i get my hand in there, i cant see whatever the hell it is im trying to do... no particular hardware, but hardware in general... plus all those sharp, unburnished edges on that stamped sheet steel tears the bejeezus outta my hands... customers have actually complined because ive gotten blood on the insides of their computers....

[Sprung]

Originally posted by Del_Boy
Groups of monitors where the pictures are both:

Not stretched to fill the screen
Running at the default 60hz

Both of those annoy me, so I of course have to change them myself. IMO though the tech department should get off their big fat lazy arses and do it themselves

Where I go to college, the techs have used a Hard Drive restoration prog called Deep Freeze. So now, when I spend my first 10 minutes of class restoring the resolution and refresh rate to something that doesn't microwave your retinas, it is all back to (ab)normal at reboot.

[Josh]

I like HPs. I don't like the ball mouses with bad balls in them. I also don't like onboard like someone said earlier. I also don't like speakers that DON'T have the volume control knob on them. I hate it how some things are really quiet. You then go listen to something else or later in the song it gets really loud. I don't have time to do it thru windows volume control.

[Winged 2.0]

Onboard mo' bo's amd tiny, un-upgradeable chassis'. Those piss me off.

[ZeikHunter]

sprung, ive dealth with deepFreeze before. its installed on a seperate partition, right? things saved there arent modified, and (without risking warez/cracking complaints) i believe the password is stored there. encrypted.

[Solitude]

those wierd apollo computers at our oldest computer lab at school(we have 4,the last 3 thankfully being quite up to date,by indian standards)
they have these buttons on the CPU for turning on the the 'turbo' mode.turbo mode means a speed of 33 mhz:\

[torpedo009]

Stupid keyboards on which the buttons are so hard it takes forever to type something (like on the old iMacs at my school ).

[Del_Boy]

Originally posted by Sprung
Where I go to college, the techs have used a Hard Drive restoration prog called Deep Freeze. So now, when I spend my first 10 minutes of class restoring the resolution and refresh rate to something that doesn't microwave your retinas, it is all back to (ab)normal at reboot.

Sounds like a pain in the arse, luckily at all the places I've been to this hasn't been the case. The refresh rate stays correct (for my profile) and the monitor keeps it's setting too.

I kinda find it irritating that a company will buy 17" or 19" monitors but only use perhaps 14"/17" inch viewing space due to bad settings.

[Xaenn]

I hate the crappy Imacs that are in our physics lab....as I wait 20 minutes for one program to load.