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

[warmmilk]

the touchpad on my surface pro 2 keypard

[jixx]

MAC

[connorpiper]

My Surface. Looks nice. But that's it. 

[deVIZtation]

My tablet I bought around Christmas time. I barely use it. Thought I would love watching Youtube videos on it while in bed because of the 1600p screen. However the Youtube app doesn't allow you to select the resolution of video like desktop Youtube. You can either watch in HD or non-HD. If I go to the desktop Youtube site and watch videos in anything higher than 1080p, there's a 2 second delay between the picture and sound....lame.

[Go_On_Shadow]

My pc.gt 610 (it simply does not deserve the x) could have been a 750ti if it werent pre built... at least i got a insane Oc of 4.5 on my Cpu especially since it was my first time overclocking... 1 year and already problems..

[WinNut]

My Logitech M325 and HP wireless KB. It almost makes me look like a normal user and not a techie.

[sevs]

This alarm clock.

 

[JEpiCsOme]

My Deepcool CPU cooler that isn't shinny anymore. 

[nicon]

PowerBook G4 

[alme55]

I bought a Perixx touch pad on sale for my desktop, using a touch pad is so much slower compared to a mouse I never use it, waste of money and desk space.

[Mushious]

Razer Mamba, god I hate it so much but, paid too much to justify getting a new one so soon...

[FuzzyYellow]

Gotta be the 1600x1200 dell CRT that is my daily driver...

[Lolzious]

An electric cork screw.......

[Ne1lcul]

About 2 years ago, I bought a Mad Catz RAT 7 mouse for like 85 or 90 bucks.  I LOVE the feel of the mouse.  I love the thumb and pinkie rests and the fact that it is adjustable to my hand.  I have fairly large hands and it fits my hand very well.  The functionality of the mouse is terrible, though.  It will just cut out randomly where it won't register movement and I have to get up, reach around to the back of my computer, unplug it, and plug it back in.  It also drifts the cursor down.  This is part that is the most annoying to me.  Messes me up playing games and trying to click on or highlight something.  Unplugging and plugging back in sometimes fixes it but not every time.  It is the best designed mouse I've ever used (and it looks very cool), but very disappointing to use.

[Hazy125]

A whole host of phones I own. Within about 30cm from either of my hands I have 5 mobile phones.

 

Two Galaxy s4's

An iPhone 6+

A note 3

A OnePlus One

 

I use an s4 as my daily driver, but only with cyanogen. Samsung default OS... Oh boy

 

I was quite unimpressed with the 6/6+. I think in terms of looks and feel, it's just a step back from the 5's. Then again, I'm not really a huge iOS fan myself, so maybe I shouldn't comment 

 

The note 3 was a challenging one for me to decide I didn't really like. I never got around to running cyanogenmod on it. But I quickly realised that, although I got used to the size quickly, it was too big for everyday use. Sitting in my pocket as I ran and bounced and crouched caused it to hold the power button, turning it on and off constantly. I started seeing other flaws after that and ended up using it as a glorified calculator because it's easy to open the calculator with the pen. And I'd say for the price, that's an underwhelming calculator 

 

The OnePlus. What an annoyance. It's fine, but come on! A cyanogen phone that doesn't even come by default with root access. When it comes to android, at least for me, root access is necessary. And that screen. It looks fine, but it breaks hard. Most of the touchscreen on the first OnePlus isn't working and the glass is shattered. Phantom Glass might be necessary for that phone

 

In short, phones are, in general, underwhelming 

[the_caldou]

My archos 10.1 tablet worked for only a week

[Guest]

My Alienware x51 is probably at the top spot, then my Beats Solo's. 

[Nowak]

Okay, now that I've replaced the 1280x1024 monitor with a 1440x900 one I can now say that the most underwheling thing I have is either the stock Intel cooler or this 7-year-old Samsung hard drive I have in my PC. I have an unlocked processor and the cooling is done with the less-than-adequate stock cooler, and then there's a 7-year-old hard drive in there, now holding my virtual machines

 

Oh well, at least those are expendable.

[JeffreyEagan]

I'm gonna have to go with this stock dinky dell keyboard and this 'buy in bulk' Asus office mouse. They're both total garbage.

[Menzenski]

Original Surface RT...Honestly its so bad I wouldn't even give it to my worst enemy.

[Kazooey]

2012 mac mini. for $600 it can barely stream netflix

[Guest]

2012 mac mini. for $600 it can barely stream netflix

They took forever to upgrade it, but the new one starts at $400 and has Iris Pro graphics, so it's a great machine.

[Kazooey]

They took forever to upgrade it, but the new one starts at $400 and has Iris Pro graphics, so it's a great machine.

 

I wonder how it would compare to an intel Nuc. I might just have to pick one up for my Dad

[Guest]

I wonder how it would compare to an intel Nuc. I might just have to pick one up for my Dad

Oh my god, do it! It's a fantastic value now.

 

Edit! I thought it was Iris Pro, it's the 5000 (still solid though). It comes standard with a 500GB hard drive and 4GB of RAM, and a mobile 1.4GHz dual-core Haswell i5.

[trag1c]

Alienware 17. Had the mobo brick twice and the LED control board once. on the most recent servicing they put in a busted centrino wireless N 2230 instead of the broadcom 4352 wireless AC adapter that was originally in the system.