The Ten Worst Products of the Year

WaZiX writes "Not sure what you want to buy for christmas? Well me neither, but PCMag has an interesting article on what they consider to be the 10 worst products of the year, so at least you know what not to buy. Helpful article that picked out products from different categories such as PDA's, Notebooks and MP3 players."

Comments

eMacs shit upon

[jeff13]

Sure... this article takes a swipe at the eMac and it should, it's too expensive for the 'puter it is.

But the article, another baloney tech review/marketing advert but I won't get into that, tells the reader that the Radeon video card that comes with the eMac makes playing "this falls" Mac games impossible... and to buy a Dell instead!

Well, we have a new Dell here in the ofice and it's got a Radeon card in it too. The Dell is supposedly a newer model than the eMac and it still can't play any games... not even crappy unaliased 3D games from years ago.

Really... typical tech-speak mind screwing by liars for the corporate Junta.

Re:eMac

[Scotto del Blotto]

You don't care about their valid and salient points?

I mean, this is one of the lamest pro-Mac arguments I have ever read, and yet its such a frequent one. "I dont care"? Oh, ok then.

Any tech product that has a huge markup because of its brand/appearance, can bite me.

The "market dynamic" argument in regards to pricing doesnt even hold water, as far as cheapness of Mac parts goes, as Apple does this to themselves. Perhaps if Macs could be sold by companies other than Apple, prices might become more competitive?

I dont have a vendetta against Mac's. I think they are beautiful computers, with some very functional yet sleek form factors. I DO have a vendetta agains't Mac cultists, who simply close their eyes and ears to the very real criticisms regarding their babies.

- Scott

George W. Bush #1 worst product of the year

[gelfling]

Followed closely by XP SP2

Re:eMac

[drew]

if you know enough to go out and build your own computer from components, you should know enough to avoid crappy components. i've been building computers from scratch off and on for about 8 years, and the only part i ever had to rma was damaged in shipping. i did have a chipset cooler that died once, but it was so much easier to buy a new fan from micro center that i never even considered rma'ing it.

of course, if you're not up for that and are buying prebuilt systems, just make sure you look at what the warranty policy you are getting is, and make sure you buy from a reputable company that will back it up. (a quick search for relative quality of different brands and product lines wouldn't be a bad idea either.) os preference aside, most pc's are not inherently lower quality than a mac at the same price point (it's true that some are- even the best companies make some bad products, and even the worst occasionally get something right- but it's far from a forgone conclusion.) the bad reputation for pc's comes more from the flood of bargain basement machines, and the tendency of windows to slow to half its speed within a month or so due to nasty-ware.