What is the most underwhelming/unimpressive piece of tech you own?

[decoy builder]

For me it's my Acer W700.
The keyboard is has no travel distance and the layout is crap so you can't do anything that is productive on it.

I paid $1200 for it, what a waste
 

[dudecool1034]

I have really never had an underwhelming piece of tech maybe except my old piece of shit laptop that got to 90 degrees idle.

[Jirajha]

The most unimpressive.. underwhelming.. piece of tech..

 

A hoist.

 

.. I own..

 

A broken hoist.

[NitrosNachos]

My Intel HD4600 =X, well at least I can play bf3 with 40fps ish after a 250mhz overclock onto it

[awesomes8wc3]

Acer Icona W510.

I didn't pay for it, but it is just such a piece of shit beyond belief.

1.6ghz Atom that is at 100% constantly, its 2gb of 800mhz "DDR3" and its Intel HD Graphics probably from the 1st generation Core series.

UNUSABLE touchscreen with many dead spots.

AWFUL touchpad.

PAPER build quality.

 

It can't play videos, it can't run many programs (no 64bit), it lags in EXPLORER and MSWORD. The CPU compares to a TURION. Even that thing has 64-bit and it's from 2005.

 

Never again am I touching an Icona. Travelmates, fine. Aspires, fine. Veritons, fine. Icona, nopenopenope.

[Darkman]

Guess the HP laptop my mother uses which happens to be a old like 2006 HP (Horrible Products) that has a Intel Centrino. Biggest piece of shit ever coming in at a whopping 1.5Gigglehertz with a single core and his throttled due to heat lower than my GTX 970.

[awesomes8wc3]

Guess the HP laptop my mother uses which happens to be a old like 2006 HP (Horrible Products) that has a Intel Centrino. Biggest piece of shit ever coming in at a whopping 1.5Gigglehertz with a single core and his throttled due to heat lower than my GTX 970.

Intel Centrino is not a processor.

It is a platform consisting of an Intel CPU, Chipset and Wireless card.

 

 

Basically its marketing bullshit.

[Sadistic_Potato]

A plastic mouse with a broken scroll wheel and an extremely heavy mouse click. It's also half my hand size.

 

And....my daily driver. 

[Rockmandash12]

I've heard you can install Linux distros on Chromebooks. Maybe you could find a lightweight OS to make it more useful? From my understanding, Chromebooks currently only do Chrome and other offline extensions.

You can, but installing a linux distro on a chromebook is pretty clunky (moreso than windows machines) and half the stuff didn't work right when I gave it a spin. Plus, when running a linux distro, it boots up way slower and doesn't actually add much functionality because of the reletively underpowered hardware. I'm living with chrome OS atm and it's not horrible. it does the job.

[PerfectTemplar]

Its my Naga 2014 MMO its had sensors issues the 3rd month of owning, but I'm to cheap to replace it. To bad its had issues I love the feel of it in my hand.

Same issue

[Raudi_]

Same issue

I got a mouse from a friend its a R.A.T. 7 Albino and so far its 100x better I need a heavier mouse for myself and I love it.

[Dr. Xeno Pootis]

An old VCR.

[MR TECH]

My Potato Box 360 aka Xbox 360  :lol:

[DIV1D3]

My now pulled-apart, and thrown in the dump (literally) Strike-X Advance. 

$70 for a case that has horrid cable management, an almost completely plastic body (just thin metal frame/mobo panel) and the fans do nothing but serve as a nightlight for ants. 

 

Edit:

I once sat on it just because it was the closest thing and it had nothing in it...

And it fking bent and had this huge dip on the top and the front/back had actually crumpled a little bit. And I'm very far from overweight. 

[ReliantChris]

First generation Nexus 7 really does not age well and makes it almost impossible to use.

[Rohit Jackdaw]

Cooler Master Elite 431 Plus case as it has poor cooling as well as shitty cable management.

[ShadowCaptain]

nothing? not that I can think of

 

I try not to buy underwhelming tech

[Nup]

nothing? not that I can think of

 

I try not to buy underwhelming tech

What a point! haha. That is what channels like LTT are great for. 

[ShadowCaptain]

What a point! haha. That is what channels like LTT are great for. 

 

I do research for everything I buy, I can sit for hours reading comparisons, or I will borrow one from a friend or go to a shop to try it, or I will watch multiple reviews and get opinions from friends

 

if I buy something impulsive, its because its fucking awesome

 

 

I only spend money on things I need or want

[Nup]

Too right, it's fun learning about products in that way though. At least i quite enjoy it. 

 

Where do you go to try on headphones? 

[-TesseracT-]

PS3, or my old 10$ keyboard... (don't use it anymore btw)

[Hitman123]

My wifi. HORRIBLE. 100Kbytes a second

[-TesseracT-]

My wifi. HORRIBLE. 100Kbytes a second

I feel sorry for you, could never take that.

[Hitman123]

I literally rip my hair out

[pspfreak]

Our router, which isn't really mine, but it sucks. It can not go 2 hours without a 5 minute break, I'm always that guy that loses connection when I'm playing with friends.

 

Second is my Logitech G930, bought it refurbished, and I'm glad i didn't pay the full price for it. Stereo is just broken, and surround doesn't sound very impressive now that i tried a pair of DT990's. The mic is really good however, i still use it for Skype calls.

Yeah I have the G930. It was a refurb as well, but it decided to quit working so Logitech sent me a brand new pair. 

 

I have had nothing but trouble. Random disconnects, seems to kill all my micro usb cables, almost no bass, more bass on one side than the other... Only thing I can say good about them is... well they work sometimes.