Best and worst tech buys: Tell us and win

[bmboy]

Best Buy: A combination of tech including:
Optima HD 20 1080p projector, Onkyo/Jamo HT system, Playstation 3, HD PVR. This combination has changed the way we watch sports, movies, play games or just watch TV. I prefer my setup at home to going to the movies. Picture quality is 100 times better. Watching the 2010 world cup final at home was an experience in itself

Worst Buy:
Playstation Move bundle. Used it for a week or 2, now it's collecting dust. I think it may be useful for guiding planes onto runways at the airport Hmm maybe the car guards could use it for helping people to parallel park

[crysis]

Best buy:

LG IPS 235 monitor. Cant describe how great the image quality is. Having a nice screen really improves the use of a computer, as its the most important output device, and most people ignore its importance.

Worst buy:

TRL Tech R299 10gb account, which without telling us, suddenly jumped up to R380, and then they decided to steal R1100 from my mom, and haven't paid us back yet

[Rouxenator]

Best : MSI E350IA-E45 AMD E-350 APU (1.6GHz, dual core) AMD Hudson M1 Mini ITX Motherboard/CPU Combo

Worst : Dstv - the whole package but in particular the HD PVR 2P.

[Tman*]

Best: Logitech Z5500 speakers - Use them everyday, from music, movies, DVD's etc. Best money Ive ever spent.

Worst: Blackberry 9800 - Went through 3 of these in a space of 12 months. Worst. Phone. Ever.

[OldGoat]

Best Buy: Galaxy S3

Worst Buy: Cheap bluetooth keyboard for Galaxy 7' Tab - keys always stiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiicking

[CptNukeEm]

Best buy:

NVIDIA Geforce 670 GTX - awesome graphics card

Worst buy:

Razer Naga mouse - stopped playing WoW shortly after buying it...

[Vulk]

Best buy:

Samsung Galaxy Nexus: Easily the best piece of consumer tech I've ever bought. Beautiful, fast, and the sheer variety of apps gives a feeling of endless possibility. Even better now that it's been updated to Jelly Bean.

Worst buy:

Er, probably a pair of Sennheiser CX-300II headphones. The sound quality was great, but they had a weird assymetric design that made them uncomfortable to wear and encouraged crazy tangling. Then at some point one of the rubber connectors fell off and it was impossible to find a replacement, so I was forced to use the smaller and less comfortable ones that came bundled with the headphones. Eventually I bought a replacement, and I ended up giving them away. I still use Sennheiser headphones (the sound quality and value for money is great), but now I pay more attention to small details like how the cables are laid out.

[Jase]

Best Buy:

Acer 5920TG Laptop. It currently outperformes my poor old desktop

Worst Buy:

Blackberry Storm. It freezes and is so slooooow.

[creeper]

best Buy

Bought my wife a Kindle a year or two ago. She loves it and I have a get-out-of-the-dogbox card.

Worst Buy

When I still had time, I bought a TV-card for my computer. Waste of money and time.

[dualmeister]

Best Tech Buy

72cm Goldstar television. Bought it just before Goldstar changed their name to LG. It is still working today, 17 years later!

Worst Tech Buy

Difficult one cause I don't usually buy junk

But, cheap Sahara flash drives come to mind. They are very slow and tend to die on me

[GhostSixFour]

Best buy
HiSense 39" LCD TV from HifiCorp for R3599. The OSD font is Times New Roman, but the panel is pretty good.

Worst buy
Linksys AR1000 Wifi Range Extender. Keeps disconnecting, won't connect at 150Mbps to the other router (which is also a Linksys).

Bought the same TV. Except I showed them the Esquire ad for R2899 and they matched.. Never mind Esquire was Excl VAT

Best Buy: Garmin GPS Saved my life couple of times

Worst Buy: Garmin GPS, Damn thing took my through Joburg CBD last friday night. Have never been so nervous in my fscking life.

[Jola]

I have a get-out-of-the-dogbox card.

Careful, those expire if not used within 90 days

[DGS747]

Best buy C-Shock sport camera from digital gadget shop

[sajunky]

Best Buy: Cell C 2GBx12 SIM Promo R999.

Worst Buy: HomeMark: Lifetime Torch /Never need Batteries/

[Hosehead]

Best Buy : "Vodaberrys" aka vodaphones with querty at all Clicks stores. These are Acatels branded for the vodaphone UK market and sent down to vodacom dirt cheap. Works like a treat when you are looking for something that fits in your palm which is not a slab of glass or a brick. Shock tested- chucked out of landrover window and narry a scratch or any damage at all. Under R400.

Worst buy: Vodacom pre-paid data. 3GB @ R499.00 go on , pull my other finger.