How hard did you cringe?

[ShiverMePenguins]

Yea but for the price the hardware is way too shitty, and the software on it is probably a poorly written one that probably crashes if you move the mouse in the wrong direction

probably? so you don't know?

 

 

i doubt it, this is a linux distro. bear in mind moving to linux often brings a great performance increase for low end systems. so...

[Emkryan]

probably? so you don't know?

 

 

i doubt it, this is a linux distro. bear in mind moving to linux often brings a great performance increase for low end systems. so...

But does that justify the price tag? I know old people don't need a quadcore with a high end gpu, which is why this product doesn't warrant the price tag. The hardware is very lowend and even then the programming shouldn't cost so much making 1k.

[Calavera]

That could be so much cheaper really...

I bet for 400 bucks you could have a better PC - just Windows and stuff, make it custom and shit.

Just make easy buttons and away you go - no need to charge 1 grand for some piece of garbage that has specs twice the needs.

[AdamG1401]

2.99*10^8

[Minjon]

11...

[Zarex]

My rank scale of 1-10 seems to be broken. it just displays error rank value 9999

[MzCatieB]

dat photoshoping work is frickin terrible

[Genecidalic]

My parents probably would buy that no matter how much I told them other wise -_-

[Rhotis]

The price on this is not that far out.  You cannot just look at the individual specs on the thing.  You have to look at

 

1 -  Its a touch screen monitor.  This is not a 90 dollar LCD guys.  

2 -  Its an integrated system.  

3 -  Its a tailored systm not a simple windows install (or simple linux install)

 

Its more than I would pay but I would not buy an integrated system like that at any price frankly.  

[ShiverMePenguins]

But does that justify the price tag? I know old people don't need a quadcore with a high end gpu, which is why this product doesn't warrant the price tag. The hardware is very lowend and even then the programming shouldn't cost so much making 1k.

does a 2100 dollar computer with hardware and software found on 1100$ laptops justify the razers?

 

does a 1000$ graphics card justify the price tag when a 500$ one gives you 15% less performance?

 

does a 2.5 million dollar car justify the price tag?

 

 

 

this is capitalism. don't blame companies for creating products that sell. blame the people for buying them.

[Samdb]

I think I threw up.

[Fetzie]

From your perspective it's ridiculous. Then again, turn that perspective and think about how ridiculous it is to pay $140 for a "gaming keyboard".

 

Doesn't sound so silly now, does it?

Cherry MX key-switches are about 80 cents EACH. And you have about a hundred of them on a keyboard. That's 80 dollars before you get to the other materials, construction, QA staff, packaging, marketing, shipping, sales tax. I'd be surprised if a 140 dollar mechanical keyboard had more than a 5-10% profit margin.

[Xin]

3 for the price.

 

So it's a netbook-spec computer with a 20-inch low resolution touchscreen and the support to get a non-tech savvy person going. It comes with a customized Linux OS and other custom made software with touchscreen support. In other words, it's a Mac for old people.

 

How many of you programmers are actually willing to make a custom touchscreen OS and software specifically for old non-tech savvy people? How well can you make it easy for them to learn how to use it? How much tech support would you provide for them? How much would you charge for it?

[DavePC]

I could swear this is fake, and photoshopped.

 

If so, credit to whoever made this!

 

If not, 10.

[Emkryan]

does a 2100 dollar computer with hardware and software found on 1100$ laptops justify the razers?

 

does a 1000$ graphics card justify the price tag when a 500$ one gives you 15% less performance?

 

does a 2.5 million dollar car justify the price tag?

 

 

 

this is capitalism. don't blame companies for creating products that sell. blame the people for buying them.

I'm pro-capitalism. I'm not disagreeing with you, I'm commenting on the morality (or lack thereof) selling this type of product to old people.

[ProGearUk]

[Wauthar]

Although it might be very practical for the people that need it, words cannot describe how cheesy and "dumb" I find this text.

Just look at the name: WOW!Computer.

Not only that, but they also offer a VIP programme where people can subscribe (for ONLY $9.95 per month) to get unlimited support.

 

UEUEUEUEUEEUGH

 

Disclaimer: It is by no means my intention offend people. This is just my opinion.

[UselessBread]

That design looks awkwardly familiar.

 

On the topic of the cringe level, somewhere at 7, but only because of the ludicrous price.

[ShiverMePenguins]

I'm pro-capitalism. I'm not disagreeing with you, I'm commenting on the morality (or lack thereof) selling this type of product to old people.

in that case we should look at dozens of products before this computer imho. too many things are marketed towards the elderly and they are simply worse product. but then again, i still would blame the elderly person. there is nothing that causes a person to stop learning.

 

my 93 year old grandmother that fishes with her husband everyday and provides food for much of my family can program better than i'd guess most on this website. she can create any fishing supplies by hand from scavenging, but still has the ability to network like a teenager. So i still blame consumers.

Yes, this company probably has bad morality and is trying to basically scam, but only the ignorant can be scammed, and only the foolish will be susceptible to a scam in the first place.

[Blade of Grass]

Cherry MX key-switches are about 80 cents EACH. And you have about a hundred of them on a keyboard. That's 80 dollars before you get to the other materials, construction, QA staff, packaging, marketing, shipping, sales tax. I'd be surprised if a 140 dollar mechanical keyboard had more than a 5-10% profit margin.

Cherry Mx switches are definitely cheaper than $0.80 each. You can buy keyboard with Cherry switches for cheaper. I think that your probably looking at the retail price, because I guarantee manufacturers are not paying that much for switches - sorry.

[IdeaStormer]

Doesn't matter how you design the UI it won't work for them. The only viable solution is to have a computer competent person operating the computer and them verbally saying what they want to do to the operator and even then we're assuming all the other onboard devices (on board to the elderly) are working fine so they can hear the operator ask, "Are you sure you want to reply to that random e-mail asking for your social and personal info?"

[MadZee]

does a 2100 dollar computer with hardware and software found on 1100$ laptops justify the razers?

does a 1000$ graphics card justify the price tag when a 500$ one gives you 15% less performance?

does a 2.5 million dollar car justify the price tag?

this is capitalism. don't blame companies for creating products that sell. blame the people for buying them.

1. Prebuilts generally suck.

2. Yes, because the last 5 FPS is always the hardest to push. I wouldn't buy that, but if you're a person who wants the absolute highest FPS numbers, then go for it

3. Sometimes. If you wanna have the most expensive stuff to look cool, at least. Again, I wouldn't buy such an expensive car, but someone who wants to show that they're rich would.

But I agree on the last one.

CRINGE LEVEL: 9.5

[gasho]

so expensive !

[Legion]

Cherry MX key-switches are about 80 cents EACH. And you have about a hundred of them on a keyboard. That's 80 dollars before you get to the other materials, construction, QA staff, packaging, marketing, shipping, sales tax. I'd be surprised if a 140 dollar mechanical keyboard had more than a 5-10% profit margin.

 

 

You wouldn't pay full price for each switch buying in bulk which people like Corsair or Razer would be doing.

 

I don't mind paying for a device with maybe a 30-40% profit margin if its lasting a long as time or has good warranty / customer support. (I still wouldn't buy a prebuilt tower)

 

That said one of my family members is so illiterate when it comes to technology , I customised a LUbuntu distro for an old Dell laptop that was lying around, set it up with everything it needs(Windows XP is still on it just the os selection is disable for convenience). It's presented in an easy to use way and he's gotten fairly fast at doing the tasks he needs to.

[James_AJ]

"AMD® Dual-Core E-350 (1.6GHz) Processor"

 

on a scale of 1-10, Justin Bieber.