What Tech Brands Are You Irrationally A Fan of?

[_Rick_]

I don't know.
I mean, even if it were irrational, I could easily rationalize my choices, and I would never know if it was irrational or rational.
The mind all too often hangs on to the belief, that our choices are rational, when they are anything but.

 

[Imaginer]

logitech for input devices - i have used their trackballs for 20 years

m570 4 lief

Here here!

My wrists thank me, I PC cursor anywhere I please (forget the desk and mousepads). This thing travels well and I can even manipulate the cursor, without resting the thing on anything. And it is compact.

Too bad that this is possibly the ONLY viable trackball in existence - due to the over-market and saturation of branded drag and slide mice. I would also like to see a modern, wireless fingerball.

And I see I am not the only one with buttons that wear (though one of four of my M570's has had the left button wore out).

 

[Carson Dyle]

Samsung. But I certainly wouldn't say my fandom is irrational. They make great products in an unbelievably wide range of goods.

 

[K1052]

Apple for laptops. Yes I can buy stuff with comparable or better specs for less money but it all feels like garbage. I travel a lot too so having one with a sturdy case with a long battery life (Air) that doesn't weigh a metric ton also keep me coming back.

 

[ussfletcher]

I own plenty of Apple stock, but will never purchase one of their devices.

 

[poofyhairguy]

Corsair is the only name in cases.

I am a huge Lian Li fan, but that is rational because they are amazing.

Seasonic is the only name in power supplies.

Good one I forgot that.

Intel is the only name in processors and chipsets.

Agreed, but for me its because I never know if down the road it might go in one of my hackintoshes.

Asus is the only name in motherboards.

I used to be that way with Gigabyte.

HP is the only name in printers.

Agree

Yamaha is the only name in receivers.

Av? No way their auto calibration sucks and that is the biggest advancement the last ten years. Denon or Onkyo FTW

Logitech is the only name in mice.

Agreed. The more buttons the better.

 

[poofyhairguy]

AMD is always an issue. They've had problems since the early 2000s when I got back into computers, and it hasn't changed. Nvidia has better overall performance and compatibility across product lines. You have to be careful with AMD. Intel is the best choice for open source graphics, but the performance doesn't match the best of the big two.

Honestly at the level I play at Intel is probably fine but I am still biased. For example my most powerful card is probably my GTX 460, but I have four GT 430s because my hobby is building HTPCs.

I bought GT630 today to go in a system with an Intel GPU already nearly as fast just so I know I have Nvidia in there and I won't lose some feature or trick in XBMC or some OpenGL game due to the drivers.

Nvidia's unified drivers framework is more appealing to me than any single GPU feature.

 

[lxskllr]

These are my default choices, but are subject to change if something is vastly superior...

Intel processors and chipsets
Nvidia gfx
Corsair memory
Sandisk flash media
Asus or Gigabyte MBs
Seagate platter drives
Logitech mice
Dell monitors

 

[manly]

OP, loving Seagate certainly qualifies as irrational.

logitech for input devices - i have used their trackballs for 20 years

m570 4 lief

Almost forgot about Logitech! I definitely wholeheartedly recommend them. Remember starting with the C7 mouse, although the Microsoft 2-button mouse was more ergonomic.

Logitech's 25 most important products:
http://www.logitech.com/lang/pdf/logitech_most_important_products.pdf

 

[mmntech]

AMD against all better judgement. They haven't held the performance crown in years. Yet I don't like giving Intel the monopoly on x86. Mind you, they're not bad for budget systems.

I used to be pretty big in to Apple. I was an early adopter of both the iPhone (3G, which was the first to sell in Canada) and iPad. I've had my eye on the OnePlue One though for my next phone, as I'd love something a little more flexible. Especially one I don't need to jailbreak to get that flexibility. Not an app pirate but there's a few power user utilities I like having, and waiting for the hacks after every iOS update is a PITA.

Sony PlayStation, again against better judgement. I have a love/hate relationship with my PS4. Straight up, it's not as good a console on the whole as the PS3 was. Imagine buying a car that's slightly faster than your old one, but has no power options, no air conditioning, and no stereo. That's the PS4 in a nut shell.

 

[tynopik]

Viewsonic CRT (trinitron can DIAF)

 

[dighn]

sony. they are no longer the best but the brand carried a lot more weight when i was a kid. now I mostly buy samsung but sony still sounds good to me.

 

[brianmanahan]

OK...you might have got me there. I won't use any other mouse (since they got rid of the old red ball one). My problem though is there is no real alternative, and these m570's the L/R buttons die quickly. Unlike my old red ball ones that are still going strong.

the red ball ones didn't have the forward/backward buttons though, which is a killer feature imho. i can't go without it now.

 

[brianmanahan]

And I see I am not the only one with buttons that wear (though one of four of my M570's has had the left button wore out).

huh, i still haven't had any of mine break, and i got them shortly after they came out in 2010.

 

[AMD64Blondie]

Gigabyte.

(Also IBM...I own 3 IBM Model M keyboards.2 1991 & 1 from 1995).

 

[MongGrel]

I've varied over time, Asus for motherboards and WD for drives two of my biggest.

That and have had many Logitech Trackballs over the years myself, use the same one up there myself.

That and I still just like a Microsoft Ergonomic 4000 Keyboard, have had a few now and they fit my large hands well on top of I hate straight keyboards once I got used to one.

I've had Gigabytes fail on me over time and have never had an Asus do that, *shrug*.

 

[bradley]

I'll only fly via TWA. I usually leave my DeLorean in the parking lot after checking in my luggage, including my Compaq laptop.

Oh also, ABIT!

 

[Mixolydian]

I am an extremely brand-loyal person.

For pretty much anything, I will only buy a specific brand.

 

[MongGrel]

If I find something I like I'll stick with it usually, but can vary.

I'm usually an NVidia fanboi, but the last GPU I bought was a Asus R9 280X TOP.

That and am using a Dell Widescreen monitor and have a few HP ones that are good, though I'd never buy one of their prebuilt computers.

Haven't used SSD's for too long now, but the two Samsung I have are running perfectly.

Just tend to read things and get what looks good more or less, as many do I suppose.

 

[BladeVenom]

Anything but Apple.

As far as video cards go, when MS crash reports came out during the Vista years, it proved ATI drivers were more stable than Nvidia drivers. Nvidia is just better at stealth marketing, propaganda, and dirty tricks.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

I'll use pretty much anything, aside from (and some of these are long gone) :

HDDs : Maxtor
Mobos : Jaton, PC Chips, ECS (had a K7S5A that was good though)
CPUs : Cyrix, IBM x86 (used to have a crappy 486SL2)
PSUs : Diablotek, Deer, etc. blue-light special brands

 

[MongGrel]

I'll only fly via TWA. I usually leave my DeLorean in the parking lot after checking in my luggage, including my Compaq laptop.

Oh also, ABIT!

I've started noticing a pattern of you posting things that are pretty much irrelevant and make no sense.

Go figure.

 

[ImpulsE69]

the red ball ones didn't have the forward/backward buttons though, which is a killer feature imho. i can't go without it now.

LOL. I never have used them. I have went through...maybe 4 of these things now. The left mouse button just dies. I thought about taking them apart and doing surgery with the right buttons of non working lefts and swapping them out to make one working one, but I haven't.

Maybe it is because i never use those 2 buttons, they just feel awkward to me.

 

[Rdmkr]

I have a soft spot for Lenovo phones... the kind you can order from Chinese dropshippers. The first I ordered wasn't even good (K900) and yet I ordered a second one (Vibe Z). Neither phone was a particularly recommendable experience but when I see pictures of the Vibe Z2 Pro that recently surfaced, my mouth waters again.

There's something about Lenovo's branding and the exterior style of their phones that works for me, although the software is beyond terrible and their performance underwhelms. On the plus side their pricing is pretty attractive right now.

Incidentally I also have a Lenovo Laptop (Yoga 2 Pro) but my appreciation of that one hasn't been irrational in the slightest.

 

[JujuFish]

None really. All my choices are rational, and are based on features, or past experience.

This, as it should be.