Worst computer you've ever had?

[evilarceus]

Since I'm frustrated about this one laptop I have, I want to hear you guys' worst computers. It must be from 2010+

 

Laptop: Dell Inspiron 15 N5040

CPU: Intel Core i3 380m 2.53 GHz (meh)

GPU: Intel HD Graphics 380m (oh God my eyes)

RAM: 4GB (not sure if it's either 800 or 1066 )

 

It can barely run Minecraft and CS:GO, but can run TF2 at lowest settings at...

at......

umm.......

640x480

 

[DarkBlade2117]

My current one. Oh god.. Let's just say...

A6-3650. That's all I gotta say.

[Castdeath97]

Don't get me talking about my old toshiba L45, the bloody thing can't be even recognised by toshiba themselves in the extended warranty program. And it literally had a hour and a half of battery life when I got in power saver even with integrated graphics thanks to the blows and tiny battery.

[evilarceus]

My current one. Oh god.. Let's just say...

A6-3650. That's all I gotta say.

Hey, at least your computer can play BF3

[TheKDub]

IBM Thinkpad T42 would be the "worst" computer I've ever owned, but it served it's purpose as a first pc quite well.

[Shiro Hagane]

My last laptop that is only good for school at this point.
HP Compaq with a C-60 APU Dual Core clocked at 1GHZ per core with originally 2 GB of RAM (Upgraded to 4) and a 5400 RPM 240 GB HDD. It's actually not a bad machine and was able to play many games on it. Once I put in a SSD things were awesome. Though compared to my rig, yeah, it was pretty cruddy.

[DarkBlade2117]

Hey, at least your computer can play BF3

doubts... Can barely runs SpinTires 720p

[JefferyD90]

Since I'm frustrated about this one laptop I have, I want to hear you guys' worst computers. It must be from 2010+

 

Laptop: Dell Inspiron 15 N5040

CPU: Intel Core i3 380m 2.53 GHz (meh)

GPU: Intel HD Graphics 380m (oh God my eyes)

RAM: 4GB (not sure if it's either 800 or 1066 )

 

It can barely run Minecraft and CS:GO, but can run TF2 at lowest settings at...

at......

umm.......

640x480

What exactly is wrong with it?

[Peter Vaughan Truslow]

Since I'm frustrated about this one laptop I have, I want to hear you guys' worst computers. It must be from 2010+

 

Laptop: Dell Inspiron 15 N5040

CPU: Intel Core i3 380m 2.53 GHz (meh)

GPU: Intel HD Graphics 380m (oh God my eyes)

RAM: 4GB (not sure if it's either 800 or 1066 )

 

It can barely run Minecraft and CS:GO, but can run TF2 at lowest settings at...

at......

umm.......

640x480

I've actually always been pleased with my computers. as long as you don't expect it do what it isn't designed for.

my first laptop only had a core2duo with basic HD graphics, but it had 4gb of RAM and the cheapest SSD money could buy at the time, and it was awesome for web browsing.

battery life sucked though, and it was thick and I struggled to get the fan to stay off, and I HATE fan noise. eventually it died, so I guess that sucks.

[JefferyD90]

doubts... Can barely runs SpinTires 720p

The A6 is capable of playing BF3.

[Sam Z Man]

I had this one in going to have to pull it out of my basement to find out what it was though.

[DarkBlade2117]

The A6 is capable of playing BF3.

It being 5 years old can run BF3 with the integrated GPU

[evilarceus]

doubts... Can barely runs SpinTires 720p

[JefferyD90]

It being 5 years old can run BF3 with the integrated GPU

What is 5 years old?  Cause neither the APU or the game is 5 years old....

[BallisticPeanut]

I don't remember the exact specs, but It was an Intel Core 2 Duo, 4gb of DDR2 with a GT6600, and then the GPU died and I got a GT430.  The thing barely ran CS Source properly

[evilarceus]

I've actually always been pleased with my computers. as long as you don't expect it do what it isn't designed for.

my first laptop only had a core2duo with basic HD graphics, but it had 4gb of RAM and the cheapest SSD money could buy at the time, and it was awesome for web browsing.

battery life sucked though, and it was thick and I struggled to get the fan to stay off, and I HATE fan noise. eventually it died, so I guess that sucks.

It is not designed for ANYTHING. Well, kinda. It did come with Microsoft Office, and it can open it in... 30 seconds. It can load a web page in Google Chrome in 5 seconds (and don't say it's my internet, I have 75 mbps). For gaming, well, you already know. The only thing I use this for is for game servers, which I'm surprised is very stable and can run 24/7. Not the best idea, but really the only thing I can use this thing for.

[evilarceus]

What exactly is wrong with it?

Look at my reply to TriceraFLOPS

[DarkBlade2117]

What is 5 years old?  Cause neither the APU or the game is 5 years old....

the PC itself is 3, That's what I meant. But yeah the thing can't even run SpinTires or Space Engineers 720p 30fps. It destroys minecraft at 100fps with a 256x Resource Pack.

[fredrodregus]

Intel pentiun dual core 2.0 gigaherts

4 gigs ddr2

80 gig old hard drive

Nvidia zotag 210

[BoredErica]

The worst computer I have from 2010+? Maybe the Acer Aspire One netbook with one of those first-gen Atom processors. That might be at the cutoff, around the start of 2010, maybe a bit earlier. 2gigs ram, like 1.3ghz, 200gig drive, onboard graphics. I think it was about 45 times slower than my current processor at chess. It's so monumentally slow, performance per watt is possibly worse than my desktop for that operation.

[JohnnyFALLEN]

HP laptop with touch sensitive buttons. I don't remember the model. I only remember a year in my volume would change randomly and my wifi would turn on and off. It was a known issue that caused some people to open the laptop and unplug the board. I hate you so much HP for that.

[CatzRuleZWorld]

Dell mini 10v. It was my first computer, it had a dual core atom at 1.6ghz, 1gb ram, windows xp, 10.1" 1200x800 or something screen, 160gb hard drive. I loved it to death though. It was before I played any games so it worked for me. That was of course before I had a Mac and I wanted one so badly so I installed Mac os on it for really no reason... Good times!

[QueenDemetria]

Hmm, I don't think I can have 1 “worst” computer, but I have owned many crappy computers over the years. I'll start with my favorite computer to hate on: HP ProBook 4540s:

The 4540s, I'm no sure why I owned this POS... 4 times. At first glance it looked like a great computer, however despite seeing all of the returns from working at Microcenter I still stupidly bought this computer 4 times, just with different configurations.  I'll start with the i7 model, since I owned two of these and they both had the same exact problems. The single heatpipe was not adequate enough for the i7 3632qm and Radeon 7650m. It would not throttle either, just shut down while smelling like melting plastic. Then, the quarter assed drivers would crash all the time, rendering the system mostly useless until you rebooted(audio, video, network, and “system” drivers all crashed). To solve the heat problem, I tried the i5 3230m model, which nope, did not fix that. My last hope was with the i3 model, which omitted the 7650m, which oddly had major audio interference problems(like from the VRM), so really even with making compromises there was no good ProBook. If it was cheaper, I might have put up with some of this machines crap, but not for $699.

 

1st gen Yoga 13”. This machine was a great idea executed poorly, or at least released on the market too early. The only flaws with this machine was its design: It weighed way too much to be used as a tablet, but even worse the ULV processor outputted way too much heat. The fan was always on at a constant loud level, and you could not hold it on the side with the vent or else you would get burned... literally. The new Yoga's weigh less, and the new Intel processors output less heat so they solve my problems, but man it sucked being an early adopter.

 

Dell XPS 12 2 in 1. As much as Linus loved his, I hated how mine over heated, auto rotation broke, and how flimsy the screen felt.

 

HP Pavilion p6210f. I'm going to like this machine someday, I just need to change literally everything on it. Out of the box, it was a low quality machine sold at a premium price. The only thing built “good” was the case, but its design was terrible. The motherboard was my biggest gripe with this machine, the chipset overheated like crazy, and the inefficient VRM added 30w of unnecessary power consumption. The case does look good though(kinda, ignoring the easily scratchable glossy finish) and was well built, which I could say the same about the components.

 

This is a runners up: My newest laptop, Dell Inspiron 11 3000. It was cheap, so I forgive most of its problems, but they are still problems none the less. I have the i3 model, which outputs 8w more heat than the Pentium model, and while 8w isn't much, its an issue for this PC. It throttles all the time, and the fan is super loud. This machine is only good for light usage, which is a real bummer. It also ahas little glitches that are quite often, but one thing that sucks is that after 2 years, Dell still hasn't fixed the auto rotate issue. Also, the keyboard feels great but it sometimes registers 2 key presses when it should only do 1. Lets just say that I'm glad that  I got the accidental warranty on this, something bad might happen before its up(just saying. It might get thrown, ran over, or left out in the rain, you never know). 

[JefferyD90]

the PC itself is 3, That's what I meant. But yeah the thing can't even run SpinTires or Space Engineers 720p 30fps. It destroys minecraft at 100fps with a 256x Resource Pack.

sounds like some other issue.  That APU is mostly capable to run just about any game out there.

[Deletive]

Pentium 4 with 512mb of ram and some crap gpu. barely ran anything, then I upgraded to a 2009 mac mini at the time with a core 2 duo and 2gb's of ram