The wall of shame
>thinkpad x300
It’s shell turned to goo and it was far too expensive for what I got out of it
>thinkpad 701c
I thought I should dive into high end collector thinkpads, and I bought the rarest type of 701c, a working factory AMD X5 one with the German IBM AMD board in it, not an aftermarket mod. The shell of the 701c is complete trash and it didn’t survive a tear down to clean out battery corrosion. Most of the plastics cracked or failed in some way, and the entire body had rubberized shit that turned into goo. I ended up giving the boards (cleaned of their corrosion) to another person to restore their dead 701c with tolerable plastics.
>modern computer parts, an entire am5 system with a 4070ti super
I tried 192gb of ram which didn’t work because “only good boards will truly support four dimms” and I bought a very average B650 board, why even have four ram slots? Whatever. My 9600x ended up being very unstable even with a normal ram configuration, the 4070ti super had bad coil whine, and it was all overkill anyway because nothing I do needs that type of hardware. I sold it all and bought a 12400f based system for a third of the cost.
>$1000 iems, thieaudio monarch II’s
So my desktop speakers had this dead zone of noise which was just a lack of bass, I wasn’t looking for window shattering bass, I just wanted the low frequencies filled out. So instead of buying a subwoofer I bought $1000 reference iems and a $500 dac/amp and they sounded really good.
About 10% as good as a $150 subwoofer plugged directly into my powered $200 bookshelf speakers. Which is what I use now, and I sold the iems and dac.
>minimal phone
It was everything I wanted, eink, good enough camera, keyboard, good size and quality. Except it doesn’t change the fact that it’s android and shit just didn’t work the way I wanted it to. I tried to use for months but kept going back to the iPhone for simple shit like a 2FA Authenticator app that worked reliably…