Hardware may be less 'in your face' than software, but it can still ruin your day. We've listed our main bugbears: let us know if you agree.
Hardware Hell
Bad software is annoying because it's in your face. Bad hardware is more subtle in its evil: annoyances that seem trivial at first can build over time like a pebble in your shoe into an eternal shaft of dismal misery. You'd hope that after quarter of a century of PC design, the worst excesses of thoughtless engineering would be behind us. You'd hope wrong. Here are just some of the mishaps that continue to take the shine off the technology that changes our lives.
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Woo
12/06/2008 06:13 PM
Haha funny article, but sadly true. I loved the bit about the6 fingered mutants and them silly printers always trying to sell you ink!
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me
11/07/2008 12:06 PM
Re: AC adapters - also - those 4-point and 6-point pwer boards you buy (to change one power socket into more) never have enough space between them to fit two AC adapters side by side.
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callum
12/07/2008 10:06 PM
:) nice article, however I love my wireless mouse! lol at the 33in1 card reader, that is defiantly ridiculous
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pendragon74
05/08/2008 11:00 AM
The N-different power adapters is one that really kills me. I'm looking at a table full of different adapters for phones (mobile and landline), printers, routers, screens, laptops. All right already! We surrender! Just give us all a 5V 500 mA power supply, or auto-switching supply, that does everything.
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