Who are the most annoying fanboys?

[Speedway]

 

I as well know what you are trying to say Ed, but think you are being way to general to make your point solid. I think you are grouping way too many of the still true enthusiasts, into your "snob" category. I know if I overclocked, and saw a 3-5% increase in performance, I would be trying to figure out what the problem was I want real-world performance increases: faster winrar decompression/compression, faster HD transfer speeds, faster video conversion, and especially more fps in game! I bought a i7-930 instead of a i7-965, as well as many others on here, cause for $800 less, we could get the same performance overclocking People are buying HD 6950's and unlocking them to HD 6970's, saving about $100 in the process! There still are many true enthusiasts out there, and I feel especially here on OCC, which is why I love this site! Your theroy is just too vast, and neglects a large number true PC enthusiasts still out there

 

On a side note, after reading this post from you Ed and many others, you are deserving of a nomination for the 2011 OCC awards from me

[TOMisCHEEZE]

Yup. Apple fan boys for sure. No doubt.

 

Console comes in a solid second.

Edited March 5, 2011 by TOMisCHEEZE

[Lord_Guy]

I would call myself an enthusiast as well. I don't have the greatest computer out there but I like to push my lower/mid-end stuff as far as it'll go. I really love computers and everything envolved with them. That's what an enthusiast is. A person who is highly interested in an activity or subject. That's what I am. I may not have been one for long (I've only been building for 3 years) but I love doing it and I love being able to. I do have a full-time job and I do have a family. Although I don't have the time I wish I had I use the time I do have on my computers.

 

I do admit that a lot of "enthusiast" are spoiled by their parents and have never worked a day in their life. I'm sure that there is a couple on OCC. As long as they don't try to showoff or be all badd butt then I'm fine with it. I can't go to their houses and steal their essentially gifted PC. If I could then my rig would be a hellava lot better.

 

Oh, my most hated fanboy is the Apple hippies.

[SpeedCrazy]

Apple, because they are often the least informed about the products they are blindly defending

This, sorta. I dont mind a person being loyal to a company, but i do mind when they take it too far. Apple may make great products but that doesn't mean you buy it because its apple or you dont because its not. You should buy what best suits your needs.

Lots of Apple fanboys dont have a clue what they are talking about when it comes to the guts of their computer. My friend bought a $1200 mac book, he assumes bacause he spent that much money he has a better computer than me who only spent roughly $900. His is better because its a mac, mine is worse because it is a cheaper rag tag pieced together pc. Does he know or even care that he is running a C2D @ 1.86GHz? Or that i am running an i7 930 quad at 3.9GHz?

It is ignorant fanboys that irritate me. If you tell me, "You should use a macbook because it can do X better than your pc" i may listen, but if you tell me "you should get a macbook because Apple is better(or any other pro apple comment)" i will ignore you. If there is a good reason to use an apple product i will, but i wont buy a certain companies product just because it is that company.

I hope that makes sense.

 

So my choice would be ignorant fanboys. Though out of the actual poll choices it would be apple fanboys, because they tend to buy for a brand and.....*see above paragraphs*

[CheeseMan42]

Apple hands down. I had an iPod, but sold it when I lost my car kit. I have an iPod Shuffle that I use every time I go to the gym and it works great for that.

[Deathmineral]

Am I the only one here that feels like the people talking about "enthusiasts" and "snobs" are being hypocrites?

[VaporX]

I think the biggest problem is that the term Enthusiast has been way to misused over the years. Many of todays so called enthusiast are in my opinion more of a luxury user. That is not to say there are no longer true enthusiasts out there, because there are and I am honored to know many of them. However to many that put the label upon themselves in my opinion are not worth of the title. In my opinion an enthusiast is not someone that is worried about what they have, they are worried about what they DO with their computer and make what they have fit the need.

 

However I will leave this discussion here at this point because I do not seek to fight over this, the OP asked an opinion and I offered mine.

[BluePanda]

I've always seemed to have a grudge towards apple products. Steve Jobs is too far up on his high horse with a large stick in his a$$... the ipad 2 really? We all knew it was coming, but for goodness sake, make it different than the first. Everything apple makes is high priced and just slightly better than the version released two months prior.

 

I won't own an apple product mainly because cost, and yes I will deal with the pains of zune software to avoid them... haha

 

I'd say apple fans tend to be defensive of their iphone, but then again apple haters, we tend to defend our android phones.//

[bishop245]

since the president and vice president of my company have seen my android they are both leaning towards getting one to replace their iphones or atleast that was how i read their reactions

[Bosco]

Okay let me slip into my asbestos underwear here before I post because I am stepping into the dragons lair as I speak my mind on this topic. My vote has to go for one category that was not listed , the "Enthusiast".

 

First let me be clear, the term enthusiast today has been as redefined as the word gay from it's original meaning. Back in the day the true enthusiast was someone who took nothing and made it into something. We had to buy low cost parts because, well, we had real lives and we had to find how to tweak them because we NEEDED to tweak them to make them work in the manner our NEEDS called for. We where the guys that bought the $100 Celeron 300 and still had machines matching the more expensive products. We did not tweak for bragging or epeen, we tweaked for real world use and real performance advantages, not little 4% to 5% gains. When we tweaked for a game we did not tweak to gain a few frames per second, we tweaked to actually be able to play the game at all.

 

Today's enthusiasts are spoiled brats that are more luxury users than enthusiasts. The have a snob attitude at the mainstream and it a part does not win at a series of meaningless benchmarks then it is not worth of their attention. Those of us that live in the real world, not mommy and daddies basement, have real jobs not playing WoW and surfing porn all day, are looked down on for the systems we buy or the recommendations we give. Ask a so called enthusiast today what the best video card is and they will recite benchmark numbers never taking into account cost or the real need of the user.

 

Tell these people you are building a PC and looking at a $50 case and they will cry how dumb you are and then point you at cases three times the cost because some review site told them it cooled a certain percentage better.

 

These, the benchmark fanboys, the luxury users that buy their performance and then look down on those of us that us PCs in the real world of a 9-5 job, THESE are the ones that annoy me the most!

 

 

I think the biggest problem is that the term Enthusiast has been way to misused over the years. Many of todays so called enthusiast are in my opinion more of a luxury user. That is not to say there are no longer true enthusiasts out there, because there are and I am honored to know many of them. However to many that put the label upon themselves in my opinion are not worth of the title. In my opinion an enthusiast is not someone that is worried about what they have, they are worried about what they DO with their computer and make what they have fit the need.

 

However I will leave this discussion here at this point because I do not seek to fight over this, the OP asked an opinion and I offered mine.

 

Valid points.

 

I consider myself an Enthusiast, however I don't throw my stuff in peoples faces. I enjoy playing with fancy hardware and I love pushing it to the limits, which more or less is a huge hobby for me. However there is guys that buy the best of the best and then slam anyone that doesn't have the same hardware those guys are idiots.... at the end of the day computers pretty much do the samething. When you have a powerful system it generally does things faster but with a larger price tag.

[iskout]

Valid points.

 

I consider myself an Enthusiast, however I don't throw my stuff in peoples faces. I enjoy playing with fancy hardware and I love pushing it to the limits, which more or less is a huge hobby for me. However there is guys that buy the best of the best and then slam anyone that doesn't have the same hardware those guys are idiots.... at the end of the day computers pretty much do the samething. When you have a powerful system it generally does things faster but with a larger price tag.

I agree with that.

 

I consider myself a low-budget enthusiast. I get what I can, see what i can do with it, and I'm happy. I don't need the latest core i7 or the highest end graphics card. Don't get me wrong, I get the best that I can, but I certainly won't tear someone down for not getting hardware that I would have.

 

I am not, however, above getting annoyed when someone asks for my advice, then ignores me and complains about performance later.

[Deathmineral]

I think the biggest problem is that the term Enthusiast has been way to misused over the years. Many of todays so called enthusiast are in my opinion more of a luxury user. That is not to say there are no longer true enthusiasts out there, because there are and I am honored to know many of them. However to many that put the label upon themselves in my opinion are not worth of the title. In my opinion an enthusiast is not someone that is worried about what they have, they are worried about what they DO with their computer and make what they have fit the need.

 

However I will leave this discussion here at this point because I do not seek to fight over this, the OP asked an opinion and I offered mine.

Maybe I just don't get it because I don't consider myself an enthusiast, but to me this looks like, "True Enthusiasts" looking down on "Today's Enthusiasts" because "Today's Enthusiasts" look down on "True Enthusiasts". I mean this is pretty much how all fanboyism works but this kind of thing seems so much more like splitting hairs than Consoles vs PC or Mac vs PC. I just think it's silly that people can love the same thing, in this case computers, and still not like each other.

Edited March 6, 2011 by Deathmineral