pixelpixel Posted October 22, 2006 Share Posted October 22, 2006 Ok. The list is things that never went anywhere. If you go by you theory of comparing old technology with new technology, then we could add a billion more things to the list... ME came from 98! So yes ME did go some where! ;) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/505445-10-biggest-computer-flops-of-all-time/page/2/#findComment-587976835 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferret Posted October 22, 2006 Share Posted October 22, 2006 Windows ME, now that was a force 10 disaster zone ! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/505445-10-biggest-computer-flops-of-all-time/page/2/#findComment-587976875 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilsbury Posted October 22, 2006 Share Posted October 22, 2006 It's worth noting that Apple 'failures' like the Newton and Lisa were actually quite ahead of their time. The Lisa cost $10000 at the time because it had 1MB of RAM and two floppy drives when most machines of it's era had less than 128KB and possibly no storage devices - at a time when memory cost a lot of money. The much lower cost Apple Macintosh had a single drive and 128KB. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/505445-10-biggest-computer-flops-of-all-time/page/2/#findComment-587976950 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazebee_ Posted October 22, 2006 Share Posted October 22, 2006 Even tho back then a lot of drivers just didnt exist for Windows 2000... For me Windows ME worked better than Windows 98 i guess it just depends on your hardware. But once i upgraded from ME to XP after a week i wonderd how i ever used ME... XP just didnt not crash ;) agreed. I cant believe how i got through using ME day to day back then... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/505445-10-biggest-computer-flops-of-all-time/page/2/#findComment-587976959 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kreuger Posted October 22, 2006 Share Posted October 22, 2006 I never ran ME but I had just as many problems with XP as I had heard about ME. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/505445-10-biggest-computer-flops-of-all-time/page/2/#findComment-587976975 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inplode Posted October 22, 2006 Share Posted October 22, 2006 I never ran ME but I had just as many problems with XP as I had heard about ME. LIES ! no a chance in hell that is true lol XP for me has been rock soild ! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/505445-10-biggest-computer-flops-of-all-time/page/2/#findComment-587977196 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koolslacker Posted October 22, 2006 Share Posted October 22, 2006 I remember using Windows ME. I had to clean install every 4 months. Win ME deserve to be on that list. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/505445-10-biggest-computer-flops-of-all-time/page/2/#findComment-587977284 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quillz Posted October 22, 2006 Share Posted October 22, 2006 LIES ! no a chance in hell that is true lol XP for me has been rock soild ! Because WinXP has worked fine for you automatically means that it works fine for the millions of other users around the world, right? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/505445-10-biggest-computer-flops-of-all-time/page/2/#findComment-587978021 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kreuger Posted October 22, 2006 Share Posted October 22, 2006 LIES ! no a chance in hell that is true lol XP for me has been rock soild ! Um prove it?Because WinXP has worked fine for you automatically means that it works fine for the millions of other users around the world, right? Exactly. I said it was what happened for me, not you or a majority of anybody else. Just in my experience. And guess what, 98SE was most stable for me. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/505445-10-biggest-computer-flops-of-all-time/page/2/#findComment-587978042 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Live Veteran Posted October 22, 2006 Veteran Share Posted October 22, 2006 Because WinXP has worked fine for you automatically means that it works fine for the millions of other users around the world, right? But XP works. Yeah, your configuration can be messed up, or you could have bad drivers/hardware. Or malware, viruses, or plenty of other things that can ruin your day. But if taken care of, at least XP is very robust and reliable. Windows ME was not. At least not in my experience. It had bugs that should have been fixed. It frequently just didn't work. Networking was a particular mess. Impressively, I consider it to be one of the few non-deterministic OSes I've ever worked with (pretty much every Mac OS before OS X fits that billing too). Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/505445-10-biggest-computer-flops-of-all-time/page/2/#findComment-587978069 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TruckWEB Posted October 22, 2006 Share Posted October 22, 2006 So this has become a WinME war.... Lets talk about OTHERS big flop and let WinME die. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/505445-10-biggest-computer-flops-of-all-time/page/2/#findComment-587978730 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xab Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 Apparantly for the author of this piece, properly learning when to use "to" vs. "too" was a flop. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/505445-10-biggest-computer-flops-of-all-time/page/2/#findComment-587978849 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bawx Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 Add Real Player to the list. What a disgrace to computers. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/505445-10-biggest-computer-flops-of-all-time/page/2/#findComment-587978944 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nashy Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 Um prove it? Exactly. I said it was what happened for me, not you or a majority of anybody else. Just in my experience. And guess what, 98SE was most stable for me. I personally think 98SE was/is one of the most stable OS's getting around. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/505445-10-biggest-computer-flops-of-all-time/page/2/#findComment-587984533 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mujjuman Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 I personally think 98SE was/is one of the most stable OS's getting around. i feel that Win98SE and WinXP Pro are among the most stable OSes however, you can make both extremely unstable pretty easily. on the other hand, with some work (safe surfing, smart installing, etc) you can use them and have an extremely stable system. most of us Neowiners (im going to guess 60%) are smarter computer users, and will prevent most bad things to our comps. the other 40% are not "smart" computer users and they constantly mess their computers up, and come here (and other places) for help. Disclaimer: just the way i see it, not bashing anyone, and not saying that im an uber l33t comp user with no problems. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/505445-10-biggest-computer-flops-of-all-time/page/2/#findComment-588003302 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilsbury Posted November 6, 2006 Share Posted November 6, 2006 NeXT computer This seemed like a great idea at the time. Steve Jobs resigned from Apple back in 1985 to start a new company called NeXT. The NeXT computer would be the most affordable UNIX super computer of its time. Running a Motorola 33-MHz 68030 processor, enclosed in a black case, there was no doubt this was the hottest and most powerful computer of its time. However at $6,000 a piece, and with no software that would run on the machine, it was really a $6,000 brick. Roughly 50,000 were ever produced. The company had spent over $250 million producing them. Although a huge disaster, this was also the computer that Tim Berners-Lee would later use to create the World Wide Web, and Steve Jobs would use as the core principals behind the new OS X. A company set up with an investment of $125 million and sold for $377.5 million and 1.5 million shares of Apple is hardly what I would call a flop. Without NeXT, there would be no OSX, no WWW, no iTMS and no Doom as we know them. It may not have been a big seller, but, the technology and the company were hardly a flop. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/505445-10-biggest-computer-flops-of-all-time/page/2/#findComment-588021408 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mujjuman Posted November 6, 2006 Share Posted November 6, 2006 ^ i agree with the comment above. but we have to keep in mind that these "flops" were actually "milestones" that sort of paved the way for future computers Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/505445-10-biggest-computer-flops-of-all-time/page/2/#findComment-588021682 Share on other sites More sharing options...
flapjackman176 Posted November 6, 2006 Share Posted November 6, 2006 wow.. look at that.. a strong showing from steve job's and apple. :rofl: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/505445-10-biggest-computer-flops-of-all-time/page/2/#findComment-588021690 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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