QOTD: Are You Loyal to Any Specific Company?

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I go for AMD because I like to support the underdog and they are just always who I've bought. ATI because again, it is what I've always bought. Asus because I bought a board and it stayed rock solid through 6 years gaming. Western Digital because so far I have never witnessed an HDD die *knock on wood.
 
Usually go with whatever has the best price/performance or whatever I can get an epic deal on. I will say that I'm a loyal Canon customer for optics and trust most products from Microsoft.
 
Brand preferences, but not loyalty...

Although ALL my motherboards are ASUS all my CPU's are INTEL I do not have any loyalties to these companies or any other.

If there is a product with favorable reviews I'm not going to avoid it just to get a certain brand.

However I may be more likely to take a risk with a trusted brand when buying a brand new model or product; something that hasn't been on the market as long as i trust the past craftsmanship.

Don't understand the people who go with the worse product to support a company; your just encouraging them to build more crap.

Don't get me wrong I love to see competition, but what kind of competition do you get when you have people committing to a company (this is not a girlfriend/wife guys).
 
[citation][nom]eklipz330[/nom]although this seems the most logical approach, why would a person give up the quality of a company they have good experience with? I mean newegg has been so good to me, I ALMOST never buy things from anywhere else... and besides, i usually look at their user reviews before buying a product, which once again, proves my loyalty to them... you can fish out the idiots by looking at the positive rating, or even if they bought the product from the site! i love you newegg!!![/citation]

Don't think he means that he doesn't have a preference, there is a difference in preference and loyalty; Loyalty can be blind.
 
I am quite loyal to Newegg and Tiger Direct, prices go back and forth between them. They both have great reviews. Mobos MSI or EVGA both great brands, MSI does a great job with PCIe slot layouts. ATI/NVidia doesn't really matter to me, whichever one has the best deal on the best card. I have owned several Sapphire cards, but if I buy NVidia, EVGA is most certainly the best. Great tech support and RMA. Seagate is another great brand.
 
I've changed every here and there, but...
I generally perfer:
CPU: Intel
Graphics chipset: Used to be ATI, but nVidia has won me over, plus they have CUDA and ATI doesn't.
Graphics Vendor: Gigabyte for their innovative and eccentric cooling designs, and boards that are meant to go just that little extra mile.
RAM: Crucial.
Motherboards: Gigabyte
Hard drives: Western Digital. They're always quieter and faster from my experience, especially versus the Maxtors and Seagates I've also used.

Then again, this is ALL subject to change if any of them tick me off!
 
For general products - Supermicro, Asus and Nvidia (sorry ATI, but every ATI card ive tried to install has failed).

For CPU I have both intel and AMD -- I use which ever one has the best performance.
For laptops I start wtith Thinkpad/Lenovo, and see where things go.

For everything else, I goto various review sites.

Newegg is 'ok' but they dont always have the parts I want, nor can I stop by on the way home from work for an impulse buy. but to "see whats out there" they work great.
 
I'll have to go the AMD/ATI side only because they're given me less problems and highe reliability. I've had two Nvidia cards go out on me - no ATi cards have failed me yet. Their value is better overall too when building a system. My Phenom 9850 runs all my games without any problems and my 4850s blaze through whatever I want. I chose those parts because I could buy an enthusiast class motherboard at a cheaper pricepoint than Intel's offerings. Also Intel isn't as backwords compatible anymore and always changing sockets. I like the idea that I can keep a good bit of my existing hardware and still move on to next gen cpus...HUGE PLUS. Saves a lot of money.

Newegg.com - that pretty much sums it up.
 
When it comes to brand or store loyalty, I am a total slut! I will buy what brand seems to be the best at that time (based on online reviews), and I will buy from stores that offer the best deals at that time.
 
I'm not absolutely loyal to, but I generally feel inclined to buy Sony products. They tend to be very well engineered and manufactured. I currently own a PSP, an SE phone (k550i) and a Vaio laptop, and am very satisfied with all three. However, if the the difference in price or features or anything else that matters to me gets too significant... I give in.
 
Dittos to loyal to me statement.

However, I will bend to support a company that has done me right (like I will buy from Newegg even if the price is a bit higher because they have 'done me right' for years); if I buy from a company and am happy with what I have, I'll be more likely to buy from them again. This goes back to the first statement really - I do it because being loyal to a good company is being loyal to ME! There is no point in spending my money on a company that has proven it is no longer interested in producing the quality I want,it does no one any good. This goes for supporting a particular business because it's from my nation too - all else being equal I will tend to buy American because I am American, but I'm not interested in buying an inferior product. It doesn't do me any good, and in the long run(the best way to be selfish or greedy is from a long-run point of view) it doesn't do anyone else any good either.


 
the egg, gigabyte,Western Digital,amd till i just built my first intel rig core i7 920,evga 7800gs agp, 7900gt, 8800 gts 640 till this rig 1st sapphire 4870x2,really wish evga did ati.
 
For vendors, I'm pretty loyal to newegg due to customer service and great prices. I still shop around, though.

Pre-built systems, I hate Alienware. Overpriced, no added value. 3 video cards burned and a bad motherboard in a year and a half on a $3500 system. Tech support was from Puerto Rico and actually told me to do something that permanently damaged my motherboard. Never again.

Parts, I trust ASUS and eVGA for reliability and competitive pricing.
 
There are a few companies I really like and if I'm in a pinch and don't have time to go mining through reviews I generally think Logitech tends to make pretty solid pc and game console peripherals. On the musician end of things I've become a fan of Behringer amps and gear, great bang for the buck. Still I'm not blindly loyal to these companies as far as I'm concerned they're only as good as the last product I purchased from them.

 
[citation][nom]tjhva[/nom]Was Tomshardware paid to post this 'article'?[/citation]

Why would you say something like that? No, we were not paid a dime for me to write this article. I just happened to be interested and was up at almost 2AM last night writing it. Is it that bad to be curious about what readers are interested in?

/ Tuan
 
I think we all have preferences, but few loyalties. If all things were equal I'd go with Intel, Nvidia, and Western Digital... but I have gone with AMD and ATI on builds as well.

We're in a recession! I ain't got money to burn just because I'm loyal to some giant corporation that doesn't give a flying $^W& about me.
 
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