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The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time
裡年來最糟糕的25件科技產品

The worst tech products PCWord recognizes are really terrible. However, lots of products people used are also terrible already and manufacture elimnated them very soon. One of them is laptops based on Intel Pentium 4-M CPU.

It is likely a transitional product for laptops. Afterward, we have Centrino. The decorticated back of IBM Thinkpad T30 which is only one product in T3X series compared with T40, T41,42 etc. was caused by extremely high temperature from CPU. Someone argued that it may be caused by bad design because of lack of a vent which appeared in following repaired parts as left one in picture. Nevertheless, it is impossible for laptop to put a hot vent on back of laptop when people usually put theirs on leg. In the meanwhile, almost all laptop manufatures suffered from the same problem and had no other alternative as bad as customers.

No doubt even if great brand, like IBM, had had worse product ever. This picture taken from Thinkpad X30 is showing broken frame under very gentle use.

Here is complete list from PC WORLD for The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time:

" The Complete List of Losers

1. America Online (1989-2006)
2. RealNetworks RealPlayer (1999)
3. Syncronys SoftRAM (1995)
4. Microsoft Windows Millennium (2000)
5. Sony BMG Music CDs (2005)
6. Disney The Lion King CD-ROM (1994)
7. Microsoft Bob (1995)
8. Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (2001)
9. Pressplay and Musicnet (2002)
10. dBASE IV (1988)
11. Priceline Groceries and Gas (2000)
12. PointCast (1996)
13. IBM PCjr. (1984)
14. Gateway 2000 10th Anniversary PC (1995)
15. Iomega Zip Drive (1998)
16. Comet Cursor (1997)
17. Apple Macintosh Portable (1989)
18. IBM Deskstar 75GXP (2000)
19. OQO Model 1 (2004)
20. CueCat (2000)
21. Eyetop Wearable DVD Player (2004)
22. Apple Pippin @World (1996)
23. Free PCs (1999)
24. DigiScents iSmell (2001)
25. Sharp RD3D Notebook (2004) "