Brands you HATE

Creative - terrible soundcard drivers, also lack of decent Vista driver support on purpose. For taking rival company to court & losing but making the rival go bust due to legal costs involved, Creative bought their Technology in the end.
On March 5th, 1998[1], Creative Labs sued Aureal for patent infringement. Aureal countersued because they believed Creative was guilty of patent infringement. After numerous lawsuits Aureal won a favorable ruling in December 1999, which vindicated Aureal from these patent infringement claims, but the legal costs were too high and Aureal filed for bankruptcy. On September 21st, 2000, Creative acquired Aureal's assets from its bankruptcy trustee for US$ 32 million. The purchase included patents, trademarks, other property, as well as a release to Creative from any infringement by Creative of Aureal's intellectual property including A3D. The purchase effectively eliminated Creative's only competition in the gaming audio market. It also eliminated any requirements for Creative to pay past or future royalties as well as damages for products which incorporated Aureal's technology.
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Asus - poor RMA service, did an rma with a motherboard & never got motherboard back even after constant phone calls that never got answered or e-mails over a 6 week period, gave up & bought a new motherboard. :rolleyes:

Apart from this, it woudnt put me off purchasing another Asus motherboard but if anything went wrong & rma had to be done I would be quite worried.
 
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Intel

Firstly for that godforsaken jingle. It makes my skin crawl whenever I hear it.

Secondly, for making socket 7 obsolete. - The introduction of that awful slot 1 design and the abomination of the Celeron that quickly followed finally drove me in to full on AMD fanboy status, for better or worse.

I'm not a huge fan of NVIDIA either, but I did like their NForce 2 chipset...


To be a tad more positive though, my likes are listed below.

AMD (no surprise there. :o)

If only for the delightful 2500xp. It cost me less than £70 and with a subtle overclock ran at the same speed as the chip that cost four times as much. Never missed a beat either, and made two thirds the cost back at auction, several years later. It gave me a warm feeling inside to think I'd made a seriosly astute purchase.

AMD for life, homie. Or until they pull out of the CPU game... ;)

Cambridge Soundworks

I've been using the same set of 2.1 speakers/sub for 7 years, and have never felt the need to change them. One of the best fifty pounds I ever spent.

Seagate - Western Digital. The only HDD's I'll buy.
 
Belkin - for nearly burning my flat down with dodgy router PSU's... twice!!! :eek:

Maxtor - Tick tick tick BOOOOM! to many times to count!!! lol

Hauppauge - Can't believe noones mentioned them yet!!! woeful drivers & dire apps!

Nvidia - 1st off Great hardware, but... painfully slow release of WHQL drivers & THE most retarded & complex product line up ever

Asus - Great hardware again, but... p!ss poor website & dodgy utils, the VIP site is a bit quicker most of the time
 
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sony sony sony.......i cant stand them with a passion they are the most arrogant money grabbing company known to man who cant even make a working floppy drive.
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You have a point there. Why should they have the right to make their own audio format and then not let people convert it to mp3. I have a load of music tied in on this OMG Audio format and so, to use it i have to buy only Sony Mp3 players.
 
Maxtor
gigabyte until recently
Hauppauge - agree with previous post but will also say that the hardware is pretty dire as well

Netgear
 
Hmmmm Pc-Chips eh?
I've had one PcChips board.
I've had one PcChips board die on me.
However, I still really liked it. It arrived, it booted, it ran 24/7 for about five years, most of it in a really hot case with no airflow and far too many discs, it died.
It even let me know a little in advance that it was going to croke, quite courteous I thought.
It seems that speccing the whole board's capacitor requirement out for 10p was the problem, they'd all bulged and burst.
Still, it cost about 20 quid and ran like greased kitten poo for 5 years.

OH, and to clarify, it's only MS software I don't much care for. Their hardware's amazing, mainly cos it's nothing to do with them :D
 
DFI they seem to be getting into the habit of not fixing known bugs before theyve move all the effort onto making the next board with the new chipset on so whilst they are good for benchmarking they are fairly useless for day to day use
 
Belkin had so much trouble with a router never again.
Asus bad motherboards and support is non existant.
IBM any company that can make a deathstar HD deserves to be hated for all time.
Apple itunes was so much hassle i gave up.
Nvidia so many reasons why i hate and will never have a thing from them in any pc i ever own again.

Apart from that i am one happy bunny :D.
 
You have to wonder why so many people have such bad luck with components failing :rolleyes:

The only hardware I’ve ever had fail on me in the 10+ years of messing around with pc's was a Samsung cd rom, personally think in most cases its user error and failure is not down to the component.
 
Creative..Shocking support,bad drivers when they finally release them,and how they treated Daniel K was the last straw for me.
 
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