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Vizio to start producing Laptops and Desktops
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That's funny... I always thought Vizio was a budget brand too. They're $100-200 below the price of Sony and Samsung's at Costco. They also get returned like crazy and I've heard Costco employees telling customers not to buy them because Vizio has poor quality control.
I bought a 42" Vizio LCD TV last year. I have problems with sound cutting in and out and intermittent HDMI port comm. I wouldn't buy anything from that company, much less a computer.
Vizio, Hannspree, Westinghouse, Dynex . . . all of these off-brand items are, comparatively speaking, junk.
Vizio makes an AIO? Fine. Their likely ranking in the consumer satisfaction reports? Probably nowhere. They won't magically grow reliability and consumer satisfaction when their entire business is budget-oriented.
Have you personally owned all of the above brands to make such a statement? Or are you just talking nonsense? Again.
i have a Vizio TV, i think its the best TV i have ever owned and its better than a lot i have seen in comparison to my friends' and families'
does this mean they can produce quality laptops and desktops? who knows. but they might get it right. competition is always a good thing and it will be interesting to see how they do.
does this mean they can produce quality laptops and desktops? who knows. but they might get it right. competition is always a good thing and it will be interesting to see how they do.
Same here. I have to Vizios and they have been great. I have had the one in my living from for 2 years or so, and it has had no issues. I have also had friends and relatives buy them and so far, none have had any problems. As of a couple of years ago, Vizio was also the #1 selling brand of TV, and according to Consumer Reports fared well in their reliability reports.
As a new brand, with a good rep, and the ability to enter the market as a new player in the PC industry this can only be considered good for Microsoft.
And if they can manage the chop the prices down to nothing while keeping good specs, they will sell like hotcakes. I know I want a piece of that laptop!
And if they can manage the chop the prices down to nothing while keeping good specs, they will sell like hotcakes. I know I want a piece of that laptop!
I've owned a Dynex portable DVD player. The LCD and battery life were terrible. Those are all budget brands though so you get what you pay for.
Also, that Vizio PC looks like the LCD panel is mounted to the base by a piece of plastic. It looks like it's gonna snap
I'm smart enough not to try.
If I choose to roll the dice, I'd rather not do it with off-brand products that, in some cases, I've never even heard of until recently.
An extreme example, but do you really think I should actually spend time and money "owning" one of these before rendering judgment?
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/reviews/2010/11/worst-gadget-ever-ars-reviews-a-99-android-tablet.ars
Please.
You get the idea.
When Vizio establishes a conspicuous level of consumer trust (yet to happen), then they might merit and deserve my looking in their general direction. I'm quite sure that more than a few consumers see it this way as well.
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I haven't had any problems with my Vizio tv and in fact I would say that it has better picture quality than my grandma's more expensive Samsung tv. Every company has reliability and quality control problems their is no way around that. I mean seriously I always see people complain about reliability.
Except Vizio doesn't make products like that they make midrange products. So you wouldn't see a Vizio logo on a 99 dollar tablet but is has been seen on a 200-300 dollar tablet.I'm smart enough not to try.
If I choose to roll the dice, I'd rather not do it with off-brand products that, in some cases, I've never even heard of until recently.
An extreme example, but do you really think I should actually spend time and money "owning" one of these before rendering judgment?
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/reviews/2010/11/worst-gadget-ever-ars-reviews-a-99-android-tablet.ars
Please.
You get the idea.
When Vizio establishes a conspicuous level of consumer trust (yet to happen), then they might merit and deserve my looking in their general direction. I'm quite sure that more than a few consumers see it this way as well.
The USB ports on the side of the base seems a more logical location on an all in one than where Apple puts them on the iMac. AIOs don't really interest me though so it's a moot point for me.
I'm smart enough not to try.
If I choose to roll the dice, I'd rather not do it with off-brand products that, in some cases, I've never even heard of until recently.
An extreme example, but do you really think I should actually spend time and money "owning" one of these before rendering judgment?
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/reviews/2010/11/worst-gadget-ever-ars-reviews-a-99-android-tablet.ars
Please.
You get the idea.
When Vizio establishes a conspicuous level of consumer trust (yet to happen), then they might merit and deserve my looking in their general direction. I'm quite sure that more than a few consumers see it this way as well.
What does a $99 tablet have to do with the tv brands you mentioned? I've read reviews of some of the ones you call junk and the reviewer came to a different conclusion.
I celebrate any new entry into the laptop space. It's good to have competition working to keep everyone doing their best.
There's no compelling reason to compare it, declare a winner, or bash it & explain why you won't replace your Mac with one. I like all types of laptops & smartphones. It'd be awfully boring if there were only one choice.
Frankly I don't care what is offered at any price. I will have both platforms for my enjoyment. Windows 7 is quite good, yet I find OS X 10.6.8 my hands down favorite.
There's no compelling reason to compare it, declare a winner, or bash it & explain why you won't replace your Mac with one. I like all types of laptops & smartphones. It'd be awfully boring if there were only one choice.
Frankly I don't care what is offered at any price. I will have both platforms for my enjoyment. Windows 7 is quite good, yet I find OS X 10.6.8 my hands down favorite.
Why? What is there exactly to celebrate about this? A lot of "new entries" are just plain junk that end up costing consumers time and money, resulting in nothing but frustration. Was there anything to celebrate about the Windows Slate? How many consumers got hosed with that crap? How about people who bought the TouchPad at full price? I'm sure they felt great when HP dropped support for it and got rid of it at a fraction of the cost. It's now an expensive doorstop.
Are you sure this is what the competition is doing? Is that what these people were doing?
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/reviews/2010/11/worst-gadget-ever-ars-reviews-a-99-android-tablet.ars
Now multiply that by infinity. And you get that massive Android bottom-end that is just foisted on consumers so these fly-by-night OEMs can make a quick buck. Half the "competition" are SCAMMERS (in PCs, smartphones, anything tech.) And I'll even throw HP into that category. They scammed everyone royally, and on a massive scale. And it looks like they didn't even care.
The mere existence of competition is nothing to celebrate. Good, strong, innovative competition that operates with the consumer front-and-centre in mind *is* something to celebrate, but a lot of the time that only becomes apparent *after* a product has been on the market and the competition has proven themselves worthy.
Of course there is. Do you like crap? I certainly don't. Vizio and these also-rans have a helluva lot to prove, and unless consumers start the tough comparisons and start them early, you'll end up getting the AIO equivalent of a typical Vizio TV, so Vizio can pad their quarterly TV revenue with some AIO numbers. Talk about waste and redundancy.
Sad to hear. Indiscriminate, overly-permissive consumers have been the death of this industry.
Then again, there's always a market for that stuff.
“There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.”
-- John Ruskin
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After this reading this thread, I had to check twice if I was on Macrumors. "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder", "Let's wait for actual specs"...
I was expecting "Sleek, gorgeous design!", "Specs don't matter, it's all about experience!".
But then it dawned on me : This isn't an Apple product, so it doesn't get the RDF effect.
I was expecting "Sleek, gorgeous design!", "Specs don't matter, it's all about experience!".
But then it dawned on me : This isn't an Apple product, so it doesn't get the RDF effect.
After this reading this thread, I had to check twice if I was on Macrumors. "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder", "Let's wait for actual specs"...
I was expecting "Sleek, gorgeous design!", "Specs don't matter, it's all about experience!".
But then it dawned on me : This isn't an Apple product, so it doesn't get the RDF effect.
Yeeeep. Put a glowing apple on the back of it, and it would suddenly be the coolest new design in ages.
That was my point. If Apple had released this exact design, people around here would be proclaiming it to be the next great Apple design. Instead, people are proclaiming it to be crap simply because Apple didn't design it.
I'm not sure how an unreleased Vizio product is even in the same galaxy as an Apple product.
You're assuming Apple would design something like this?
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People are proclaiming it to be crap because it's a Vizio product trying to ape an iMac. Since it's Vizio, it's pretty fair to treat it as guilty until proven innocent. Then again, who really cares. Vizio is certainly not the level of competition that would drive Apple anyway.
Besides, wtf is Vizio thnking, entering into this market, this late (especially when an Apple product owns the segment)?
I'm not sure how an unreleased Vizio product is even in the same galaxy as an Apple product.
You're assuming Apple would design something like this?
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People are proclaiming it to be crap because it's a Vizio product trying to ape an iMac. Since it's Vizio, it's pretty fair to treat it as guilty until proven innocent. Then again, who really cares. Vizio is certainly not the level of competition that would drive Apple anyway.
Besides, wtf is Vizio thnking, entering into this market, this late (especially when an Apple product owns the segment)?
Do you own or have you ever owned a Vizio product?
Why on earth would I?
If I'm going to roll the dice with my money, it sure as hell isn't gonna be with an off-brand deal.