Early Adopter Syndrome?

[Keatah]

Who has it?

 

Yep. here get a load of this early adopter *S*T*U*P*I*D*I*T*Y* -- useless garbage crapjunk hardware.

 

Back in the heyday of the internet and multimedia and pentium & mmx I spent like thousands of dollars to try to make a game called Unreal to work correctly. When I say correctly, I mean achieving the 'experience' the advertisments and hoopla and self-induced tightly-cranked mental gyrations an OCD addict has would have you believe is possible.

 

Let's see - I bought over the years -

 

Riva 128, Voodoo II (2 of them in sli), the gf2 gts ultra, gf3, gf4

awe64, sb 16 , sb live

384mb ram, then 512mb then 1024mb

27gb hd then 60 then 60 then 120 then 120 then another 120

then a 266mhz p2, then 350, then 450, then 850, then 1.4 powerleap celeron,

3 power supplies to go with it.

20+ fans

2 monitors

3 mobos

a p4 and 1gb rambus, and two mobos, and an audigy.

Stupit Modderz-boyz cases with blackout trim and blu-litez

 

Sure makes your brain burn, doesn't it!?!

 

And none of that garbage performed as well as a laptop with good integrated graphics.

As a matter of fact, look on youtube, coming soon, for my videos of me smashing and destroying all that crap.

Edited March 10, 2009 by Keatah

[Mirage]

[Keatah]

ha! google already index this post!! not even 2 hours...

[+poobah]

Who has it?

 

Yep. here get a load of this early adopter *S*T*U*P*I*D*I*T*Y* -- useless garbage crapjunk hardware.

 

Back in the heyday of the internet and multimedia and pentium & mmx I spent like thousands of dollars to try to make a game called Unreal to work correctly. When I say correctly, I mean achieving the 'experience' the advertisments and hoopla and self-induced tightly-cranked mental gyrations an OCD addict has would have you believe is possible.

 

Let's see - I bought over the years -

 

Riva 128, Voodoo II (2 of them in sli), the gf2 gts ultra, gf3, gf4

awe64, sb 16 , sb live

384mb ram, then 512mb then 1024mb

27gb hd then 60 then 60 then 120 then 120 then another 120

then a 266mhz p2, then 350, then 450, then 850, then 1.4 powerleap celeron,

3 power supplies to go with it.

20+ fans

2 monitors

3 mobos

a p4 and 1gb rambus, and two mobos, and an audigy.

Stupit Modderz-boyz cases with blackout trim and blu-litez

 

Sure makes your brain burn, doesn't it!?!

 

And none of that garbage performed as well as a laptop with good integrated graphics.

As a matter of fact, look on youtube, coming soon, for my videos of me smashing and destroying all that crap.

 

It could be worse, I got into PCs when a 1 meg simm was $400+, I remember scrounging some 256K simms from a dead HP LaserJet so I could have 5 (thats FIVE) megs in my PC, so I could run Doom and Lantastic (for my ArcNet cards)- (Doom wanted almost every bit of a 4 meg machine)

[MN12BIRD]

Most of that stuff isn't early adopter syndrome because it wasn't crap or cancelled early. I mean the VoodooII was a sweet ass 3D accellerator for its time.

 

Now if you bought say an HD-DVD player when it came out, payed $500 for it and now its collecting dust in the closet aside your Betamax, Videodisc and minidisc player....

 

I'd be laughing at you!

[Keatah]

No no no, most all of it *IS* early adopter syndrome. Paying tons of money to advance the industry. Either a voodoo II or geforce 2 gts ultra, still the same thing.

 

Only now is the 3d graphics industry becoming worthwhile, barely. Especially if you consider the promises of the marketing campaigns back then. They promised so much, but gave so little. Marketing always makes their current offering/product seem 5 years better than it really is. Problems with drivers, cooling fans, all sorts of things had to go right to make a 3d game work.

 

However, I do not consider all the Apple ][ stuff I have as "early adopter purchases". Most of that stuff worked far better than advertised, and the marketing and profit motivations weren't as greed oriented as today.

 

Today, a company will simply put out a product to see if it sells. And the company is more than willing to let the public be the sucker for beta-testing any new technology. Back then in the beginning days of personal computing companies really had no idea what their products could do, and often under-advertised them. Today everything is overhyped..

 

I suppose early adoption syndrome rears its ugly head when you buy a product that doesn't do what you expect. Simple as that. You get stuck beta-testing it.

 

ok ok, 3d graphics boards from 3dfx were a new and unique product. I'll give you that. But I suppose what I hate and I mean really *HATE* is the word multi-media and everything in the mid 90's associated with that, like 1x or 2x cd-roms, games full of cut-scenes, games with no personality, soundcard drivers that were half-assed dos/windows hybrids, windows 95 and windows millenium, mmx and pentium and internet (web back then), none of this crap worked quite right. Full-motion video, ahem postage stamp sized video, software that took an hour to install.. pentium III with internet SIMD instructions? wtf!!? Pentium 4 and web tv and pci-tv cards. Sound card with remote controllers. Half-baked attempts to bring the pc into the living room. I hate that crap!!

[MN12BIRD]

Yeah I hear ya they make video cards now more powerful than anyone actually NEEDS and they charge $500 for em. Then in 6 months they're half price lol!

[Keatah]

Sort of true. The chip (gpu) is more powerful than we need right now. But the amount of memory on mainstream cards is sorely lacking. IT's the lack of memory (on the card) which causes bus texturing, and that gives the impression of the gpu getting bogged down. So many budget chips would perform excellently if we gave them enough framebuffer and texture memory. sigh...