This is not something about movies or games, this is actually a complaint about stupid people. Being where I work, I deal with technology on a constant basis, and being it's retail I am surrounded by items I want and cannot afford. While I was drooling on my lap over a Sony notebook for $1,200, I decided to read the customer reviews and see why it was rated at 4 stars instead of 5. I was shocked at the stupidity of the results.
To give you an idea of what this machine has, it is a 16.4" screen with a blue-ray player, 1GB DDR3 nVidia graphics card, 640GB hard drive, 6GB of DDR3 RAM (upgradeable to 8GB), 2 USB 3.0 ports and 1 USB 2.0 port, backlit keyboard, HDMI output (and SATA input), and most importantly an Intel i7 processor with Turbo-boost, and a shit battery life, but that should be expected for a quad core. If you're a gamer, specifically a PC gamer like me, you should be foaming at the mouth. Now lets look at comments some of these dipshits said about it.
So the first comment I came across that made me want to smash my head on a desk was someone who said it had poor performance. Apparently his Windows start up is very slow in comparison to a notebook that cost $200 from Black Friday. According to him it takes up to 5 minutes to load up. I won't argue the five minutes, I sincerely doubt it takes even remotely that long, but I'll give him the benefit of a doubt. Now why is he a dipshit? Because he has heavy aps running on it. First and for-most, he's running Norton Internet Security Suite. What this jackass doesn't realize is Norton ISS is running five programs at once that all have to boot up and check through the system. Norton ISS is a system hog no matter what kind of computer you put it on. You will never get full performance out of a machine using it. Strike 2 is he's also running Blackberry Desktop, another program that causes slow down. Strike three is this moron probably didn't turn off any of the start-up programs that are useless and has unlikely not taken any of the trial software off of it. Then you have iTunes (which doesn't take that much but still). So essentially he has one major system hog software running. Of course it's going to move fucking slow. He also complains about where the USB ports are, which isn't a valid complaint because you can see that in the store, so fuck him on that one.
The second complaint that always makes my blood boil with regard to any notebook is about the screen resolution. According to this idiot, Sony skimped on some things to make it a $1,200 laptop, namely, not making the screen 1080p. I challenge you to find a TV with a screen under 20" that has 1080p. Why? Because they don't fucking make them. There simply isn't enough space for a 1080p resolution. But lets say hypothetically you could some how magically cram that many pixels into that area, you aren't going to notice the fucking difference. A screen has to be a minimum of 32" before you will notice a difference between 1080p and 720p, and guess what, this fucking laptop does 720p. Something like this pisses me off on two levels. The first is just the general stupidity, the second is they clearly just know 1080p is a better resolution without understanding why and when it's actually useful. And as a side note, he spelled "throw" wrong, because lack of an ability to spell is a valid argument.
This actually goes along with a separate thing that pisses me off. A while ago I was looking at which version of Predator I wanted for Blue-Ray (the first release or second). The first release had really shitty reviews. Why? Because the picture was grainy and not super clear like new movies (such as Star Trek). This is another example of dipshits voicing a useless opinion. Just because a movie is upscaled to 1080p does not mean it's going to be absolutely perfect look, especially if you're using a shitty print. Why? Because 1080p upscaling simply means they blew the picture up while keeping the proportions the same to give you a more detailed picture. Why is the grain complaint stupid? Because it also means any grain in the film will be enhanced and made larger. People have this strange idea that some how being in 1080p means it will look absolutely perfect, but if you're working with 30 year old film that had grain to begin with, it's going to stay. You can get rid of it, sure. Basically you blur the picture, meaning you're losing the quality of the picture just because you're a jackass that doesn't like grain, rendering the blue-ray aspect of it useless.
To get back on track, the last comment that pissed me off was about the battery life. According to Captain Dipshit, Sony's site said the battery life is 2:30, but when he unplugs it, it only lasts about an hour. Either Captain Dipshit did not talk to someone that knew anything about computers, or he ordered online, because anyone who knows anything about laptops would be able to tell them there's not a chance in hell he's going to get that 2:30. It's a fucking quad-core with dedicated graphics and a Blue-Ray player. The battery life is going to be shit. Why can Sony claim it's 2:30? Because when they benchmark it they turn every option off (including wi-fi), and just let the computer sit with low brightness and no back-lit keyboard. The time you see on any of those is assuming you're doing fuck-all with it, but looking at it. But of course, this dumbass is going to return the battery in hopes a new one will fix the problem.
This last comment isn't so much about someone complaining, but just wrong information. There were a bunch of people talking about how awesome the "8 core processor is." I'm sorry you think it's 8 cores, it's not. It's a quad-core with hyper threading, which makes it look like it has 8 cores. Neither AMD nor Intel has an 8 core processor. And before you think "LOL Mac has an 8 core!!!" No they don't. They have 2 Intel Quad Core processors because Intel are too fucking lazy to make the technology for a true 8 core processor. Any computer can technically have 8 cores so long as you have the pins for two processors. Or even 12 for that matter now that 6-core processors exist.
Man people suck.
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