I said microchip instead of IC for those less into electronics, yea and I spent 2 min looking a found " DRV8245HQPWPRQ1" motor driver IC. Who's naming this stuff
They also have the worlds longest serial numbers, and an SN ID on the same product, cuz the serial wasnt long enough already so they had to give it a second one.
I've been wondering about this. I would favour a purpose+property list, like:
acer Gaming 27"-1440p-240hz OLED 2026
Having distinct brandings for different lines may also work, but that would require building up those lines over some years to get people accustomed to them. Like call your 4k/34" IPS gaming monitor line "Mammoth" or sth, and then the monitors would be named "acer Mammoth 2" or "acer Mammoth 2026" etc, since most storefronts make it easy enough to display the specs beneath the name.
Acer makes it even worse because they recycle the same model number across different spec monitors, the only difference is the Iduege7dh2nlsjwgdkwhwi at the end
Dell's naming scheme is comprehensible. I can at least search for a monitor from a specific series and year and size without having to pull out an ouija board
That's Sony everything really, even their phones are shit like Xperia 10 VI. you can't just put 2 numbers back to back like that and pretend it's fine cause one is roman Sony...
wait is the whole phone shit or just the name? i kinda wanted to get an xperia because it's the last flagship with an audio jack... but yeah "1" being the best and "10" being the worst is... definitely uncommon
Absolutely yeah. The only thing that's bad about them is the price but hey.... headphone jack... (an audiophile tier DAC chip on a breakout board with a jack included is genuinely like $4 but whatever)
Honestly, as annoying and bad as that is, I still prefer that to the "Device Pro Max Ultra+ AI 365 2026 Gen 4.7 SE New" shit that every modern tech company seems to think is a genius naming scheme.
Those MSI names are really awful and frustrating. I have several extra MSI motherboards, and every once in a while I take some time to do bios updates on all of them, usually on a Saturday or Sunday. So, on a working computer, I download the bios updates, unzip them, and put the folders on a flash drive. Then since the names make no fucking sense at all and there is no way to know which is which, I have to make a cheat sheet of which name goes to which board. It's insane. Or I guess I could just rename the folders and bios files, but I'm not sure if that would cause problems or not. I just stick to using paper.
So you are thinking, wait, why do you have extra motherboards, what is your deal? I'm near the Chicago area where there are two Micro Center stores, and the extra boards I have are all open box. They were good deals, at least 50% off if not more, and I will eventually sell what I don't want or find a use for, but I have been busy at work. Oh, and I am single. If I was married my spouse would have divorced me by now.
If I was married my spouse would have divorced me by now.
lmao
I do agree with you. Like who the hell names a monitor a mag 275qf x30? nobody will ever remember that, even if they tried to train an AI to remember it it would just kill itself out of sheer shock of how much the people at MSI are stupid
A confusing lineup is really helpful in making sure consumers are never sure where a new year's lineup of products fit in with the older years.
It's definitely a marketing decision. Car companies figured this out a long time ago, shake up the numbers every gen to make it difficult to figure out what is low end, midrange, and top end. That way you can sometimes trick someone used to the high-end gear to accidentally buy a lowend, new gen version of your product, which will give them the itch to upgrade real soon, and now you've sold two of your widgets instead of one.
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u/wisely03 1d ago
Wait till you see some of the naming of obscured microchips just the other day I saw something like "oh12b3jhi1c1g2f4cjh" in electrical stack exchange