What tech purchase in 2015 did you most regret /g/?
none because I do my research and never buy on impulse.
best purchase of 2015 is my nvidia shield tv, plays my hi10p chinese cartoons like a breeze.
>>51948322
>none because I do my research and never buy on impulse.
same
>>51948239
What's wrong with it?
Planning on buying one for Plex
Can't think of anything either
>>51948322
Mind testing the OP from this video?
http://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=594759
this
>>51948422
Wtf is up with your thumb
Steam controller.
It kinda works when traveling and playing games that require mouse, but shit any other time
>>51948433
> thumb
>>51948433
I don't think they even have a thumb on their right hand
Nothing. Always spend a lot time researching before buying tech.
Then again I did buy some HDMI cables last week in wrong size, amazon gave me a refund and told me to keep them so fuck it.
iPhone 6 plus. Phone was too fucking big to deal with. iOS 9 was too laggy and buggy on the 6 plus but was fine on my 6. Sold the phone for $500 and now am using my old 6. Going to save up a little bit more then go back to android.
>>51948422
Fuck back off to >>>/reddit/
>>51948239
Lenovo y50-70.shitty panel, even worst TouchPad
>>51948577
what specs on the panel?
my wife..
I paid her dad $20K
>>51948433
reverse image search that shit bro
>>51948422
this was the single greatest purchase of my life because it made me realize how much better a proper trackball is than a steam controller for htpc
>>51948239
maybe the pi, because i still don't know what to do with it. it was cheap though, so i don't really care that much.
skylake i5
but I was kinda forced in to it, but its not like I have much choice on the subject
cant go like americunts for i7 5820k for similar price...
>>51948608
non-touch one, can't really remember now.
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>>51948409
Holy shit the sheer autism
And I thought their No Game No Life karaoke was bad
>>51948713
4k?
Internal wireless card to replace my 5 year old usb one. Never even installed it because less then a month later I had my modem moved to my downstairs and hooked up via straight ethernet instead. Now it just sits in the box unopened.
>>51948707
You could if you checked ebay, cuck
>>51948737
>buying used shit
>calling others cuck
how does my cum taste in your mouth?
>>51948719
How does it run?
>>51948735
1080p
>>51948736
Also bought a cooler master 212 to replace my stock Intel fan on a locked 4460. Although at least it's aesthetically pleasing so not a total loss.
>>51948525
this is bait
>>51948796
no it isn't
>>51948753
pretty good actually nohomo
Macbook Pro. Never had a Mac before and thought I'd finally give it a go.
Hate the OS, buggy as shit. Keyboard sucks fucking balls. Screen is nice but already has a dead pixel. Trackpad giving me carpal tunnel so I have to use a USB trackball. Use a Windows VM on it half the time anyway. Also have to use a stupid thunderbolt adapter for ethernet at work which looks stupid and is a pain in the fucking ass.
2/10 do not recommend.
>>51948239
i always wondered how come ms cant make dualshock-like gamepad because lol patents, sone cant make xbox-like pad (theres also nintendo in this group), but any other company like tracer/google/speedlink can make any gamepad designs, how does this work?
>>51948422
MEN, SHE HAVE 0.5 THUMBS IN 2 HANDS. WTF
>>51949395
Because Sony and MS don't care enough about other companies, they care the much more about each other.
>>51949395
>can't
they can but they do not want to because the Xbox controller is their special design. Why do like everyone else does?
>>51948239
> falling for the Nexus meme
> Wasting money that could've been used for a Chromecast or a Fire TV
Time to be a man and become an hero.
phillips SHP9500 headphones, I resold that shit so fast and moved onto LSR305. Now those monitors were worth it.
>>51948422
Were you at chernobal?
>>51949549
Why didn't you like them?
Linux
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>>51948422
>>51948433
>>51949515
>>51949669
>>51949830
>no thumbs
Tfw missing what makes primates good
>>51949546
>not realizing the Nexus Player has Chromecast built-in
>bring too much of a retard to figure out a streaming media player
snowball mic
16gb RAM
I literally ever use 4gb
>>51948239
What's wrong with the NP? A couple of the third-party apps are buggy (I'm looking at you, Sling), but other than that, it's a fantastic deal for $50.
I didn't buy any tech on 2015
>>51949920
This desu senpai. Got a Blue Snowball. It's a hulk and it's just unnecessary.
>wanted to use it for Skype
>no one wants to Skype me
I5 4690. Should've bought K, but this was $50 cheaper and I thought I'd just have this system for a year or so. But things lead to another and now it's running an R9 390X instead of twin R9 280s and the CPU could deliver more if it could be overclocked. The turbo boost takes it to 4ghz (or so) so I don't know if I REALLY need a K model. Could overclock it by increasing BCLK but that takes it to 4ghz only where it's going automatically already...
Still, it was only 50 bucks.
The closest thing I have to a regret is that I bought a 4K TV about a month ago and only have 1080p media to display on it.
But that'll sort itself out in time.
>>51949830
*high four*
There was this guy with three fingers on one of his hands, I can't remember if he was on /v/ or here. You mutants are pretty cool in my book.
>>51948239
What's that Asus thing?
I bought a nVidia Shield TV 16GB on Black Friday, haven't used it enough to decide if regret. It (using Kodi) plays all the most autistic formats I've tried on it though, fex Mongolian flip-chart at 60 flips per second at 1080p x265 hi10p.
>>51948736
Sell/return it? ... Get your jew on, anon.
>>51948785
It didn't reduce temperatures drastically? Stock fans are bretty bad.
>>51950444
>he doesn't know about Rec 2020
Anon, I ... I have bad news.
>>51948322
I'm getting one of them for xmas, is it good for gaymen to?
>>51950216
Max boost is only when it's using 1 core.
Bloodborne box
Hopefully I get more use out of it later
Bought a new PC for some reason, I don't even play video games or do anything demanding.
>>51948239
I got an LG 3DTV for muh Vision, but turns out that out of ~20 games on my PC that are 3D Vision ready/compatible, only 3 or 4 actually work on this TV.
Next time i'll do some research before getting a 3DTV. Doom 3 BFG is the shit on 3D tho.
>>51948525
>sell iphone 6 plus
>sell iphone 6
Buy Android phone.
>>51948633
>inb4 sex bot
>>51949830
Why the fuck did you buy a controller that basically requires 90% thumb input then? Just keep the keyboard, or even get the Xbone Pro (overpriced, but has the pedals on the back).
>>51948239
Worst purchase of 2015: Steam Controller
Best purchase of 2015: Canon EOS 350D
The problem with the Steam controller is that it's designed for playing PC games in a console setting. I wanted to play console games on my TV. A USB SNES controller clone ended up being way better.
Why the fuck doesn't anyone like nexus players?
I adore mine.
$50 Kodi machine
Some 9$ pair of speakers, thought it wouldn't be that, they were making distortions at the lowest volume, it just sucked
I honestly don't think I purchased a single piece of technology this year.
Well I guess this counts, it's an inline FM modulator so I can add an AUX line for my car but keep the original radio because I love my 90s German glow at night
A Pebble Time smart watch.
Most of the time I was just using it to tell time.
I switched back to an automatic watch.
My best purchase? A blackberry PRIV phone.
>>51955015
do you not get notifications?
>>51948239
I don't think I've bought anything this year.
dell xps 13
with 4gb of RAM
>>51955036
lel nobody calls him
>>51955151
This is actually right. But I do get a shit load of emails and IMs.
>>51955036
I did get them, but the watch was no better than my phone at notifying me of important ones.
Also I found it to be a little stressful having the thing buzz so often.
Shit can wait.
I still like the idea of smart watches, but until they have more features and a vastly greater battery life, I won't be going back.
>>51948239
A bunch of silent fans. At least I can hear my GPU rattling more clearly now.
all those steam games i never played even though i'm neet
>>51949669
Kek
>>51949883
how do you hit space? are your nubs big enough or do you use another finger?
>>51954934
once you go scosche you get pounded in the asshole by an angry rose bush. I offer you some lube for your scosche purchase
Htc one m9, but it was actually a gift, so I'll use it until the successor of the nexus 6p comes out, or the xperia z6, or IF htc get's their shit together, I'll buy their next flagship.
>>51948239
Buying a GTX 980 on impulse.
The signs were all there,
>neglecting kepler merely 2 years after its release in favor of Maxwell
>misleading PR about 970 ROPs and VRAM
>GimpWorks with overboard tesselation
Fell for the "Full" DX12 meme, only to find out later Maxwell does not support tier 3 resource binding and its performance on ashes of the singularity was abysmal which is a bad sign for the near future. As well as lack of async compute modules, you can only do one asynchronous operation.
Its DX11 performance and power consumption is pretty good, but for the price I payed even the 390X would have been a far better option in the long run had I waited a little longer.
>better at DX12
>8 asynchronous compute modules
>double the amount of VRAM even if only useful in crossfire or for certain VRAM intensive mods (it is 100 fuckin ausbucks cheaper)
I have no doubt 390X will exceed 980 performance come pascal once driver overhead is reduced, just like the 290X fucked the 780 in the ass in the long run.
Let's see what becomes of the 980 for VR, apparently LiquidVR is better at least as far as latency is concerned but that is all rumors won't know until VR is out.
MRS sounds promising, buzzword at this point until it is implemented, but apparently it requires gameborksVR. Hopefully devs will be able to implement a hardware agnostic solution that works similarly for games that don't use gameworksVR.
VRSLI apparently doesn't scale as well and crossfire, but that won't be a big deal until most VR titles start supporting multiGPU setups. Apparently it is easier to split workload between 2 GPUs for VR as they can work independently on one eye each.
I tired team green for once, fuck me if I ever make that mistake ever again.
>>51955604
I just grabbed a random image from Google, my car's a convertible anyways so it's not like sound quality matters to me
>>51956692
I've seen scosche wiring melt in the past. I would not trust the rating they put on their wires. If you have that garbage in your car I wouldn't be worried about sound quality. I would be more worried about a fire.
>>51957200
It's fine, I didn't buy a scosche
And I carry a fire extinguisher anyways because muh racecar
>>51948422
I love it.
Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut fucking games that don't allow kbm and gamepad at the same time ruin it.
The trackpad is only great when you can put it into mouse mode, being forced to use gamepad mode is fucking stupid.
>>51948422
How do you play any games with a controller?
Asus reference GTX970.
Massive framerate drops in anything that uses more than 3.5GB of VRAM, which is actually surprisingly common at 1440p.
Replaced it with a 290X VaporX 8GB, couldn't be happier for the money.
>Sold the 970 to a mate, the 3.5GB issue is actually a lot better than it used to be, it seems game devs have accounted for the fact that 970 only has 3.5GB usable and are limiting to that based on gpu string - so even though you'll never use all 4GB, it's no longer a stutterfest.
ITX computer.
I fell for /g/'s memery and got one to use as my home server. it was a bitch to work on and I very quickly wanted to add more hard drives. I turned it into a pfsense box and built a proper ATX machine out of some leftover parts, so it didn't turn out all that bad
>>51948239
black Nexus 5X
the thinkpad meme
I bought a selfie stick that was too small for my otterbox phone
>>51957963
Try a case next time.
>>51957924
>ITX machine
>server
yur dum
>>51958755
What did you do?
>>51957924
>ITX
>server
That's retarded. Home servers need to be full tower at the very least. Or a 4u rackmount with 24 3.5" hotswap bays.
Razer Lycosa
Couldn't type at all on that shit.
>>51948322
This
>>51956672
>Let's see what becomes of the 980 for VR
Don't expect much, Nvidia didn't make Maxwell in mind for it at all.
http://wccftech.com/preemption-context-switching-allegedly-best-amd-pretty-good-intel-catastrophic-nvidia/
Not sure if AMD did either, might have just been lucky, but their ACE works wonderfully for VR. Of course Nvidia fanboys will say this doesn't matter because devs will tune for Nvidia since they have majority of market share but I don't buy it since VR needs to be as bleeding edge as possible and of course this will just be more reason for Nvidia to fix it in Pascal and then have people upgrade again just like the having far lower tessellation performance in Kepler.
>tfw 1366x768 TN panel
Never again.
>>51958942
No, they should make products that are cheap crap
>>51959455
*aren't cheap crap
>>51948422
It doesn't count if you could never use it in the first place.
>>51948239
OnePlus phone. The new OS is shit. The lock screen flickers and won't allow me in sometimes until reboot. My icons have disappeared at random. My microphone stopped working for 2 weeks at one point. It'll crash in the night and my alarm won't go off. The flash light fails to respond sometimes. It won't connect to wifi automatically anymore.
I want to throw it against the wall sometimes.
>>51959333
Oculus did state the minimum spec for oculus CV1 is 970 or r9 290 so a 980 should be fine for a year or two until AMD releases their 14nm GPU with HBM2 and better HMDs are out.
Plus over time they will develop better techniques and tools to optimize software for VR, so performance will improve across the board. MRS sounds really useful, hopefully AMD works on something similar in liquidVR or it is implemented in the SDK.
>>51959706
That's for everything on their Oculus Store is all they said and that also just means that's the minimum requirements. Notice how shitty the minimum requirements are for current games in comparison to the recommended specs? Now imagine that for VR, that's why the recommended specs are always 980 Ti for many games, in reality even a 980 Ti isn't good enough. Also talked with a AMD guy that demo'd Crytek's new dino game for me. He said Fury X was minimum for CV1/CB running it stable, they tried on a 290x and it couldn't handle it for CB/CV1, only for the DK2
>>51960073
>in reality even a 980 Ti isn't good enough
I wish I got that last 290X in stock at MSY for half the price of a 980 to hold me off for a year until arctic islands releases.
I suppose there is no point crying over spilt milk this early, VR isn't even out yet let alone enough games come launch supporting it.
I'll be playing around with web content and JanusVR mostly along with the odd VR game or two until the medium matures. Will just have to live with lowered settings until I find a good time to upgrade.
I think I'll still be playing a fair bit of my backlog that doesn't have VR support on a monitor for a long time so it is not all doom and gloom.
>>51948525
MANLET CONFIRMED
>>51959706
>for a year or two until AMD releases their 14nm GPU with HBM2 and better HMDs are out
Try 6 months
>>51950558
>>51949830
some of you mutants are ok, don't come to the cripple convention next week
>>51959431
>Dell low grade laptops
>have the same performance and specs as the cheapest acer
>costs 1/3 more of the acers price
Thanks dell
>>51958960
Forgot your glasses today, gramps? It's obvious where he went wrong. He installed Windows 10.
>buy cheap 10" chink windows tablet
>return it literally the next day because it was a load of shit
cheap chink crap, not even once
I bought the Zenfone 2 after listening to /g/. Was probably my least favorite phone I've ever had. Managed to sell it for almost the amount I paid for it.
It was annoying/awkward to use, full of bloat, has a screen that was too bright or too dim... as a final "fuck you" it took almost 24 hours to factory reset it.
>>51960727
My $94 8" Windows/Android tablet came in last week, it's got comparable hardware to my Venue 8 Pro but the chink tablet has a better screen for 3x less than the Dell
>>51960752
The speakers were tinny as hell, and the back-light bleed coming from each corner was just too much to handle.
>>51960767
I'm definitely not saying there's not shitty chink stuff, but not all chink stuff is shit.
>>51949044
Install *buntu on it.
>>51948239
Samsung 850 Evo 512GB or any other placebo SSD
>>51960855
You've never had an SSD
>>51948239
This fucking thing.
>muh 3.5gb
Nah its okay for halfway into next year.
Also i'm %99.999 sure it will shit the bed if you attempt to game at 4k or even near that.
A cheap cherry keyboard for 60$ maybe. It feels super cheap but yeah, at least it has the switches i tell myself as i cry
Besides that, a KOBO tablet without physical buttons, eh
Nothing because I do my research.
I regret buying windows last year though. I don't even use it now.
>>51960936
>buying windows
>>51958755
Thinkpads are for linux-based masturbation, what did you think?
>>51959431
The fan on that thing is as loud as a jet engine
>>51948239
An ATSC converter box and antenna. I live too far from any major centers to get any signal with it, and this is only made worse by the fact that most of Canada's analog transmitters were simply shut down rather than converted to digital.
Everything...it's all so... mundane.
playstation vita, i played on it once.
although this might've been 2014
>>51950662
Not him. My 212 made almost no difference. Around 2 degrees tops.
>>51960947
I know. Won't do it again.
>>51950045
poorfag detected
>>51961180
Consumerist faggot detected
>>51961193
>buy good stuff for home
>consumerist
lol what a fucking pleb enjoy your broken, old furniture an your shitty, slow pc pleb
>>51960905
it is even starting to shit itself at 1440p at max settings in gta or witcher3
>>51961029
I bought it on launch...
Persona 4 was bretty gud but yeah overall it was a mistake buying it.
I expected it to get a cfw after not a long time just like the psp.
>>51948239
I regret nothing. I bought an x201, a new charger and a dock for it.
Nothing cause I'm a poorfag
>>51961368
I'm still waiting a fucking cfw to buy it, that thing could be the ultimate all in one emulator/shitposting/porn station
My NZXT fan controller. Ordered the simple sliding switch one.
>not in Stock even though amazon listing said it was
>kek
>cancelled the order
>ordered the touch screen one instead
>got the touch screen delivered 2 days later
>2 weeks later get the original one I ordered
>the bastards didn't cancel the first one.
I now have the touchscreen one installed and working and the sliding one in its box in my cupboard gathering dust.
I bought a new charging cable for my laptop and then the laptop exploded. The new charging cable had just been dispatched and I couldn't cancel it.
Not a big loss but still annoying.
Also this £35 Kindle fire. It's pure shit.
>>51948239
Fell for the mechanical keyboard meme. Bought a K70 with blue switches. Hated it, went back to my trusty Dell RT7D10.
>>51949528
If they enforce it for one company, they have to enforce it for all companies, otherwise Sony/MS/Nintendo could take them to court for being biased in their copyright enforcement.
>>51962120
Because you were retarded enough to get a mech without trying one fsggot
