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PS the "Asus" company in its current incarnation is Satan with AIDS
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Date: January 5th, 2025 6:28 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK Don't let the logo fool you, this isn't the same company that made your motherboard in 2002. This is some kind of sham outfit using the brand name to FUCK you over. They are holding consumers hostage by not only refusing warranty repairs, but demanding customers pay to have their defective products sent back to them. Extortion. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659585&forum_id=2Elisa#48521740) |
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Date: January 5th, 2025 6:29 PM Author: DewarsDude examples? i've been a fanboi but interested to learn what's changed (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659585&forum_id=2Elisa#48521742) |
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Date: January 5th, 2025 6:43 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK I worked in a PC shop in high school, just assembling PCs for people, everything custom spec'd. At that time, you could could tell just by touching certain products that they were made better. The PCBs were thicker, components were spaced out and arranged intelligently, quality of the copper connectors was higher, everything. Off-brand motherboards were often defective right out of the box, but we never saw a bad motherboard from Asus, Gigabyte or Intel. I personally bought Intel motherboards for the longest time because you can smash them with a sledgehammer and it doesn't matter. Put an old Intel BX board under one of those industrial presses on Youtube and the chipset will win.
I still have those raccoon fingers I developed back at the PC shop. I can touch a PCB and tell you whether it's good or shitty. Every Asus motherboard I've seen since ~2013 has been pure jank. So are all other products made by the company. Everything is covered in LEDs, shaped awkwardly, made of flimsy components, and doesn't work. The brand name ought to carry zero goodwill at this point. Buy any other brand. |
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Date: January 5th, 2025 6:54 PM Author: peeface ive bought a Zenbook and a home router from Asus in the last few years. both worked well and were of good quality for the price.
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Date: January 5th, 2025 7:17 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK At best the products are no better than products from competing companies.
Their routers in particular stand out to me because of the mystery meat hardware inside, and their nasty firmware. I believe the reason I still receive the emails referenced here:
http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5400043&forum_id=2
is because I created an Asus account in order to activate some functions on an Asus router. Back in the day when it made sense to put third party firmware on a router, Asus made a model that supported it, until it didn't. It just would update with that firmware after a certain point and had to be flashed with the factory ROM. That's how Sunny Lin got my email address.
For networking in particular, I recommend BrosTrend unless you have a reason to buy something else. If you need something with radio antennas, Zyxel is solid even at the lower end. Used HP and Cisco stuff can be cr. |
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Date: January 5th, 2025 7:21 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK Goddamn, fuck Asus. Look what $500 gets u now:
EDIT: Asus equivalent is a disaster:
https://a.co/d/gsdQdBJ |
Date: January 5th, 2025 6:31 PM Author: donal tron Of course some lunatic was the OP (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659585&forum_id=2Elisa#48521751) |
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Date: January 5th, 2025 7:30 PM Author: justapoaster My ASUS TUF mobo from 5 years ago is ugly as sin but has never given me a single problem. YMMV is the rule with mobos honestly, and every PC component company has gotten cheap to cut costs.
Their laptops always sucked, they were just better than shitty acer, dogshit HP, or non thinkpad lenovo. |
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Date: January 5th, 2025 7:35 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK For many, many years, Acer had a series of laptops that were made in Taiwan that were as good Thinkpads from that era. However, it was a total shot in the dark whether you were getting one, because they kept changing model numbers and naming conventions. You had to look at in the store, but you could tell just by looking at the machine screws in the bottom of the chassis. They were higher quality metal, precision machined etc. Separately, they are (or at least were) part of the Evergreen Group, which has other tentacles in this market. EVA Air is Evergreen Group. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5659585&forum_id=2Elisa#48522022) |