Brand Loyalty

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>>60885922
btw here's the final results from the Brand Boycott thread.

IBM, Panasonic, HGST, Kenwood, Pioneer, BlackBerry, Sony, HP, Unicomp

>>60885922
Panasonic. Rock solid build quality every time, never had to use warranty on any product. Been a loyal fan since 20+ years.

Asus. Good build quality. Good customer service. Only had one problem yet, was resolved within a week and was given placeholder GPU while the RMA product shipped from HQ.

Seasonic for PSU. High quality capacitors that can take heavy workloads. Quality japanese engineering.

Netgear. Out of all the routers I've owned in the past, netgears I have to restart the least.

Gskill for ram. Used them on one build. No complaints. Would buy again.

Antec cases. Every aspect of their case is well thought out. Helps you immensely while building your machine. Build quality is the best I've seen from all the other brands I've used.

HGST for hdd. Fantastic drives, though a little overpriced.

LIte-On for BD/DVD-ROM. Liteon manufactures for many other OEMs and their homebrand has the best build quality of them all. Never had a failed disk burn in their drive and after owning several liteon drives over the last 15 years. None of them had tray issues which are so common with other drives.

G-Tech for external HDD. They used HGST drives. Nuff said.

>>60885922
I don't have a loyalty thing but I always always buy Samsung memory drives because their customer support has always been great at least for me for years

>>60886097
Nigga that is called brand loyalty

>>60885922
>sony
- not the cheapest or the best but hardly ever leaves you disappointed
>nokia
- first phone, always loved the build quality, and just damn good reliable devices
>HTC
- pretty much same as nokia, built like a brick shit house, usually pretty good, and my first windows mobile devices
>lenovo
- bought a bunch of cheap lenovo chinkpads, for 4 years now they have been faultless and cheap parts, and cheap laptops in general when you buy used
>seagate
- had seagate drives run for 10 years without fault, compared to my only WD drive which i've had to RMA twice
>sandisk
- damn good reliable SD cards and flash drives, mainly loyal just because they fab their own chips
>logitech
- same as sony not the best, but usually a good deal and just works and when you can't recomend something just say logitech and usually it'll be a good buy

>>60885922
Asrock, Seasonic, G.skill. That's about it as far as computer hardware is concerned.

>>60886205
forgot one
>crucial
No frills just works SDRAM never had a dimm die from them

also i used to be loyal to Asus motherboards but after having 18 months of headaches with one, they have lost me, and i'm now on to gigabyte.

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>>60885922
Sony. This laptop served me well for 7 years.

Western Digital. Their HDDs always worked for me unless I did something to fuck them up.

>>60885922
Ayymd - Because fuck Intels jewish tricks and fuck Nvidias GPUs breaking within a month of ownership.

Linksys - I have a wrt54gs that I got back in 2003, never had an issue with it.

>Bonus
ACDelco (Car parts) - I purchased an S-10 from some ricer. He replaced a bunch of stock parts with autozone """""""performance""""""" parts. Replaced all of the shit parts with ACDelco ones and the thing ran better then ever

>>60886345
My 2009 Vaio still going strong. About to replace HDD w/SSD, add 4gb ram and replace windows w/ linux and it will serve me another 5 years easily.

Best $500 I spent. Without a doubt.

Xiaomi

Cheap chink shit with superb build quality, no shitty branding and good specs and software. Also unadulterated ROMs hosted on their website for when vendors add trash.

>>60885922
I have zero brand loyalty

>>60885922
exhibiting any brand loyalty at all is how you get taken advantage of. Try to never do that.

my policy
If it works well, lasts at least 5 years and does eveything I ask , it doesn't get too hot , fault free , I buy.

the brand is megar thing really.

HP, Sony, Samsung. Those three have never let me down.

>>60885922
whatevers cheap

>>60885922
IBM,Solingen,Intel,Radeon,ISK,Samsung,Hitachi.

>>60886123
No because it isn't exclusive
I'll buy others but I always prefer Samsung over any other brand
I won't defend them I'm not some loyalist cuck

Apple. The only Apple hardware I've ever bought that I was not completely satisfied with was a refurbished Titanium PowerBook G4 in 2003. But everything else has been perfect.

>>60885922
Gigabyte, A-grade without the bullshit.
Iiyama monitors
Sapphire GPUs
Epson printers

>>60885932
This is almost a good brands in descending order list

Sennheiser for headphones
Toshiba for laptops
Maytag for washing/drying machines

>>60885922
Dell

>>60885922
Brand loyalty is for idiots. I do avoid Seagate harddrives though, reversed brand loyalty I suppose.

Gigabyte, IBM, Noctua, Phanteks.

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>>60885922
>Which brands do you prefer to buy?
Apple.

>Have they served you well long term?
Yes. Had to talk to customer service few times and every time my issues were solved. Best computers, best desktop OS, best mobile devices, best mobile OS. Impossible to beat.

>>60887623
Forgot to mention that G. Skill is pretty good for RAM, too.

>>60887456
>Maytag for washing/drying machines
they haven't been any good for 5+ years. they even stopped those Maytag repairman commercials because their shit is now made in China and is made to break apart.

only their old stuff is good. new stuff is no better than any other chinkshit.

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>>60887672
nice bait lad

>>60885922
>Gigabyte

I've been using their mobos exclusively for almost 20 years. Never had an issue.

brand loyalty is a thing. you'd have to be an idiot to be blind, but sometimes spending 10% more on an item and having reassurance that it works properly and will be supported is a thing. it's a balancing game between a great deal and reassurance.

out of the brands on your list I would say Corsair and logitech knock it out of the park. both generally will "on paper" charge you for shit, but if you say that you lost a mouse wireless adapter or misplaced your modular PSU cables, they're happy to ship them for free.

all the taiwanese mobo manufacturers are terrible if you actually have to ship it back, I assume because there's basically no money in it.

microsoft used to be great on warranty replacement for input devices but that dropped the fuck off.

creative has horrible fucking drivers, it's a crime.

Unironically LG for phones
>G3s
was a meme for flashing because no flagship, but other than that really awesome and would probably keep running for ages had I not been so stupid and format sbl2 in the hopes of fixing the MAC address of my overvolted NIC.
>G4
did not bootloop after a few months despite being the most bootloopy phone made by LG. 1440p is a meme, but the kind of meme you enjoy having. Back buttons are glorious and the fake metal gold-ish plastic back cover looks amazing. Hexacore Snapdragon 808 even allowed me to install Gentoo on it in reasonable time.

And apparently LG phones have the strongest flash LED, friend's Sony flagship got totally BTFOed by G3s.

>>60885922
LG for screens, apple for rest.

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>>60887730
go away pajeet. poo in the loo!

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>>60887895
You are the pajeet here

>>60885922
only areas where i really care about brands are tvs and phones (sony and sony). the rest is whatever has a good price/performance balance

>>60885922
Acer for laptops. Not even kidding. Used them exclusively for over a decade, if you're not into meme ultrabooks and just need a machine that handles everything you throw at it for as cheap as possible, that's your brand.

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>>60887908
Nice try, POOJEET!

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>>60886915

Seconded!

pc hw: asus - Monitor, mobo, gpu, router, laptop
Headphones: sennheiser
Kitchen stuff: siemens
Hardware: bosch - drill, angle grinder, acu screwdiver ...
Cars: Opel
Shoes: puma

Thinking of it i am brand loyal as fuck. No regrets so far...

I'm not a /v/ toddler so I don't have "brand loyalty". I buy the best product.

Dell and Juniper

>>60887595
Seagate made good drives back in the day. They seemed to go downhill after buying Maxtor in 2006. I always hated Maxtor drives, slow, noisy, unreliable.

For phones/smartphones - Nokia and Samsung, but I can't speak for their recent devices.
Motherboards - GIGABYTE. Good quality components, just werks, OCing is quite easy. I'll go for their GPU when vega arrives.
Logitech for peripherals, never let me down.
Panasonic and Snapheiser for headphones, I guess, the drivers are pretty solid.
For SSDs only Samsung, I have the 830 in my PC and recommended their SSDs to friends, no complaints.
Laptop and display, Dell.

>>60885922
I will never buy intel as long as bazinga is their spokesperson

>>60885922
Sony - it's kinda a family kind of a thing at this point, all my relatives buy Sony
Apple - I have an MBP that has served me for 7 years now and it's still kicking. Also I've had an iPhone for 3 years now and it's still a joy to use, other phones I had in the past would've been driving me mad at this point if they were this old.
AKG - never failed me for headphones
and a plenty of other brands for other stuff but who cares

>>60890071
>Sony - it's kinda a family kind of a thing at this point, all my relatives buy Sony

Are your relatives Asian?

>>60885922
Apple. Just werks™ makes computing comfy

LG. WebOS is a dream to use on any TV. Its motion controls put gaming peripherals to shame.

Sennheiser. I'm no audio engineer, but god damn do my HD 600s sound great.

Schiit Audio. Same as above, plus they're on the bleeding edge of cost.

AMD. This is mostly because I'm a shareholder, but competition in the CPU industry has finally gotten interesting after nearly a decade of stagnation.

Canon. I have a $30 printer from them that I've used maybe 10 times total, but it has worked every time, even with long gaps inbetween usage.


Seagate. I can't imagine using another brand of hard drive.

Samsung. Their thunderbolt SSDs go great with any computer that supports them.

Sony. They've dropped the ball in recent years, but they were the first on the scene with portable audio, and I've bought many products from them in the past.

Streacom. They're a little known case manufacturer, but if you want to build a hackintosh their cases are the way to go.

Dell. You won't find bargain bin computer monitors cheaper.

Of course, each and every one of these companies have done something I haven't liked recently, but they have the websites and product listings I'll check out first to see if they have what I need.

I'm a bit of a Micron fanboy

>>60887786
I also had a G3. My carrier installed a tracking app on it that wouldn't stop bothering me for permissions. Installing CyanogenMod was really easy and made the phone perfect. I took it on a camping trip once, put it on the highest energy saver setting and it lasted for 5 days and nights as a camera without a recharge.

>>60885922
Sony, i think i've bought every single kind of product they've made; stereos, TVs, bluray/dvd players, playstation, walkman, mp3/mp4 players, phones, laptops, earbuds/headphones, cameras etc and they've never disappointed me, my Xperia Z2 is a dinosaur by today's standards and the camera still holds up, the PS2 i bought in 2010 still works, i have a pair of expensive sony headphones from 2007 and even though they get outclassed by any 50$ ones you'd find today they're still fine

>>60885922
You should repost this image with the text ">being part of the botnet" for maximum (You)s

>>60886915
Battery on my Note 3 Pro crapped out in 6 months.
Back to Sony for me.

>>60885922
I'm partially brand loyal to ASRock (sometimes I also use Gigabyte). Never had a bad board from ASRock before. They all have really good features... although I suppose my current board has a kinda shit secondary NIC (Killer NIC), but I don't mind that much since I only use it for VMs and don't have the software suite for it.

Also brand loyal to Seasonic for PSUs. For obvious reasons, but I may potentially consider Corsair in the future because some people I really like work there.

>>60885932
Heh, I see my lonely Nintendo vote

>>60885922
Brand loyalty is pretty stupid considering every brand is trying to nickel and dime you, spy on you, force ads in your face, and intentionally breaks your shit to make you buy more.

>>60885922
AMD, Corsair, MSI, and Motorola are the only tech brands I'll but if I have a choice, regardless of price.

>>60885922
Nvidia GPUs
AMD CPUs
Sennheiser Headsets
Asus motherboards
Zowie mice
Samsung Monitors
Samsung SSDs
WD HDDs
Cherry keyboards

that's about it.
alltough as a bonus i'll shill for Nvidia's ShieldTV as a streaming/Gamestreambox and the Shield Tablet K1 as a dedicated porno handheld as the spiritual successor to the Nexus 7.

>>60891569
>>60891514
AMD for me too. They seem like the only one who aren't fucking their customers to make money, unlike intel and nvidia.

AMD GPUs also support a lot of open source tech, so that's very commendable as well.

I'm partial to Asus mobos and monitors, logitech mice.

I've never had issues with Corsair stuff, but they've gone up in price compared to when I used to buy lots of their RAM so whatever.

I've bought a lot of EVGA GPU's for some reason.

>>60885922
Brand loyalty is retarded, I buy what people in the internet say is a good product and then they usually end up being right.

>>60885922
i always buyded intel produkts, always good

Mikrotik for network equipment. It's seldom cutting-edge hardware-wise, but it's absolutely reliable. Also, the 1W antennas on their APs will BTFO of pretty much any consumer router.

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>>60885922
loyal 2 gentoo

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>>60885922
I've got an EVGA gpu and an EVGA power supply.
An NZXT case.
Logitech keyboard.

I've never had a problem with Logitech. All their cheap shit lasts forever. I bought like a 50 dollar keyboard from some gay company and it broke within a month. My 10 dollar logitech mechanical keyboard has lasted me 3 years so far with various spills and yanks and beatings. But then again, it's just a keyboard.

I'm really happy with my NZXT case. The fans are kind of flimsy and shit though. I didn't clean the dust out of my case for 3 years and i just opened it up today to clean it and there was hardly any dust in it. The fans seem like they'd be shit but they keep the temps down and the dust out.

My EVGA gpu is alright. Same with the power supply. I've got GSKill RAM and it's good. No complaints. When I bought my gpu, EVGA sent me a badass poster and a bunch of cool stickers. The poster is like a pic of a giant horned demon with black flames and shit

>>60885922
I prefer GeKa over that Gardena crap. That said, you need hoses bigger than 1/2".

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>>60895451
I don't know, man. My Gigabyte motherboard has treated me well

>>60895480
PNY is the only one with LIFETIME warranty

>>60895451
Man i fucking love PNY!
Last year my old GTX 580 died but thanks to their LIFETIME warranty they sent me a 1080 for free

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>>60895482
You guys kind of sound like shills

>>60895507
that's all /g/ is any more.

>>60895507
Grow up
Tip your tinfoil hat. Nobody "shills" on this shitty site

>>60895529
It's hard for me to imagine some company hiring shills to advertise products on the internet and that person going straight to the technology board on 4chan

>>60885932
Why would anyone boycott be quiet? price?

>>60885922
Cherry (keyboard, mouse), gigabyte (mainboard), xfx (graphics card - AMD), super flower/be quiet (psu), sandisk (ssd), viewsonic (screen), sennheiser (headphones)

I avoid sony, logitech, razer and apple products if possible.

>>60885922
Anything EVGA or Team Group. Toshiba for HDDs

>>60895538
Virgin fag
YOU FUCKING SLUT I HOPE YOU FUCKING DIE I HOPE SATAN STICKS A NEEDLE IN YOUR FUCKING EYE

Gigabyte has not let me down yet on the motherboards I've gotten from them.

>>60885922
Gigabyte.

I only buy GPUs and Motherboards from them. Never had any issues.

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>>60895633
Nerds

>>60895641
/G/uilty

>>60895641
Enjoy your dead hardware. Gigabyte rocks, nigga.

>>60895615
Mom! MOMMY! ANON HURT MY FEELINGS ON 4CHAN!!!

>>60895661
Mah nigga. Gigabyte is the shit.

Gigabyte and Logitech for most shit. Sapphire for AMD GPU's. HyperX for peripherals and ram.

>>60895451
I have two Asus laptops.

One was pretty expensive and I have no complaints. The other was cheap as shit and... I guess the trackpad is pretty awful, but other than that, it does whatever I want it to. Which, admittedly, isn't much.

>>60888111
>Opel
Found the eurofag

Beyerdynamic I guess
Dell is also great

>>60895870
So?

AMD because it gives Intel a reason to innovate and they both end up competing and we're all better for it.

That being said I won't go out of my way to buy a significantly inferior product which is why I totally skipped everything from Bulldozer. But I think the Ryzen chips might win me over.

>>60885932
My HP and Acer heh
>>60885922
MSI because of FX420 Sandy Bridge laptop, still rocking it.

>>60887038
"I always prefer Samsung over any other brand"
"not some loyalist cuck"

Do you hear yourself talk? Look up the definition of "Loyal" and what "loyal to the brand" means, jesus

>>60887456
You should get into LG for washer and dryer. They're phenomenal. Don't get Samsung. LG has the motor technology down.

>>60888331
They started making more of the drives in Thailand and China rather than Singapore, which is really where shit started to go downhill. Then you had the firmware issues (circa 2007) and then later the horribly unreliable 3TB drives. Seagate also cut the warranties on their drives massively, a trend which pretty much everyone else followed.

>>60895451
MSI has the best AESTHETIC and that's a fact.

>>60885922
>Hgst
>Asus
>Aoc
>Benq
>Panasonic
>Samsung
>Sony
>Logitech
>Mionix
>Noctua
>Ayymd
>IBM
>Sapphire
>Asrock
>Sennheiser
>AKG

>>60900092
and Fractal design