21st Century Consumer Electronics Are Rubbish

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except for the ones that are good, which are many. or at least good enough, which are many more.

The worst thing about electronics from this stupid century are that everything is controlled with touchscreens. I hate touchscreens!

yeh, I miss the tactile reassurance of actual buttons and switches and knobs and sliders.

I have a touchscreen here on my desk and I have to rebuild the whole machine again just to stop the 'phantom clicking' problem that plagues the right half of the screen. It almost just deleted my whole post.

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all too often, my fingers seem too sausage-like to properly register on a touchscreen.

I found the modern computer keyboards to be unworkable because they often produced double strikes or no strikes. So I bought a special keyboard called a Das Keyboard Model S Professional for my Mac computer because it gives an audible click every time a key is depressed, similar to a typewriter. This keyboard provides outstanding tactile and audible feedback.

If you are willing pay what electronics used to cost a few decades ago, you can usually find very high quality modern versions of all sorts of stuff. For instance, I built a digital clock back in 1975. In today's dollars, it easily cost $50 to $100 in parts.

I've no experience of Apple products, but I've seen their laptops for sale secondhand at CEX for £1000-£1500 and more. These things don't appear to do much more than my Thinkpad, which was £90. What's the attraction?

Here's an ad from Amazon. Probably a misprint. Or is it?





Edit: sorry, for those who don't have magnification on their device, it's an 'Audio Quest Diamond' HDMI cable for £1789.00. It is 3 metres though, and you do get free delivery....