Hardware companies you have "Blacklisted"

Gimpymoo

Gimpymoo

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I will NEVER buy a Creative product simply because their customer support is among the worse I have ever experienced plus they appear to be living on past glorys.
 
Creative (as you said plus the products themselves are pretty crap)
Q-tek (not much to say here)
Club 3D (poor support I've found)
Thermaltake (poor quality I've found)
 
No companies particularly but I've gone off cheap power supplies because I had two die in the space of 3 years in my old socket A system (didn't take components though so not too bad)
 
OCUK

Just kidding :p

I would say QTEC as well and any PSU maker who is not a known brand.
 
Just maxtor. Haven't had enough experience with buying parts to have other disliked brands. Have had 2 external Maxtor drives fail early though. Current PC components are excellent so far.
 
Maxtor
Creative
Q-Tec
Thermaltake (or Thermaltack as people call them)
Acer
Enermax
Gigabyte Motherboards
 
Maxtor and Hiper off the top of my head.

I will also boycott creative sound cards starting form when Auzentech release their own drivers for the Prelude. :)
 
IBM (harddrives)
Cyrix
Microsoft (game controllers)

That said I dare say if one of those came out with a phenomal product priced much cheaper than the competition, I might be tempted.
 
Apple (nothing wrong with the hardware - just irrational hatred or the company. Far too cool for a genuine geek).
Maxtor.
Any no-name RAM
Any no-name PSU
Q-Tec
Packard Bell (I am scarred from the memory of their customer 'support')
 
Probably just Creative. Had a Maxtor drive fail once, but that was probably due to me unplugging it whilst the system was still powered on...
 
Maxtor - though perhaps not anymore since they're rebranded Seagates now anyway.

I will never a Denon product but for slightly different reasons.
 
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