Computer Specs You Should Ignore

What are some specs PC and peripheral manufacturers emphasize, but don't actually tell you very much?

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[UnseasonedCabbage]

My number one spec that annoys me the most about an item I'm looking to buy is usually the price.

[rodryguezzz]

For SSDs, remember that independent reviews are not trustworthy if the manufacturer decides to change the internal components without telling anyone or rebranding the SSD.

[MrKarmaya]

RAM is one of the biggest scams. Companies boast 16gb, 32gb ram on their pcs when you can just download it for free.

[CoolJoshk]

This was good.
1 thing you missed: when people just say “it is an i5” instead of the model or generation.

[someone]

yes mega pixels in cameras, are sooo irrelevant to the actual camera quality

[AmeanAbdelfattah]

Me one time: "Excuse me, sir? Do you know if this laptop's SSD is NVMe or SATA?"
Best Buy worker: "...um, uh...yeah it does. But you should get this one (points at different laptop) because this one has uh...(trying to remember) 4K."

[johnschwalb]

I was working at office max. A manager said "this one is the terabyte, so it's going to be way faster than the 32 gig."

I got in trouble for correcting him.

[ABaumstumpf]

Monitors... nearly everything about them.
They claim "1.000.000 : 1 Contrast", yet actually only reach around 1000:1 static and even that only with local-dimming which leaves HORRIBLE artefacts when you got any high-contrast images. Advertising 144Hz but with pixel response times >8ms and 20% or higher overshoot.

I friend once had a large plasma TV. It was a "nice" room-heater in the winter, in summer that was a real problem, but at least it did exactly what it said it would do - near perferct black-levels and very good color gamut as well as viewing angle. Not good for a bright living-room, but perfect when you can darken the room.

[LKonstantina]

TIP: Just because a psu is rated 80+ bronze/gold/yada yada, it doesnt mean its good only because of that. Best metric is cybenetics

[emil]

I find the battery life on laptops pretty misleading. They're obvious best case scenarios - when my laptop is bright enough to be usable it often only lasts 50% of the listed time.

[TravisKmeow]

I rarely see HDPS (Hot Dogs Per Second) listed when rating LTT staff's eating capabilities, maybe we could get a rating like that and finally find out what Brandon is really hiding...

[astrawby]

Battery life. I guess it's cool to know that if I let my computer idle with no software opened it'll take it 10h to drain the battery completely, but I'd rather know how long it lasts when using the hardware at its maximum.

[Seskal]

I know Linus goes over ranks for RAM, but maybe even a Turbo Nerd edition on why RAM timings are more important than the frequency? I know Linus says it all the time but never really did a deep dive the way he explained ranks.

[victortitov]

i'm most frustrated with how portable speakers are marketed. Usually they have a power rating and a frequency span. But. A tiny thing that has no bass is often spec'ed as 20 hz to 20 khz, while an actual good speaker says 60 to 14k... and the power rating, which is usually just an electrical power its amplifier may be able to deliver into a resistive load... pfff, that has no relation to how loud and how clean the sound will be, and it's the sound that eventually matters.

[EddieP]

i want someone to talk about gibibytes vs gigabytes so people can understand why their harddrive has less space than advertised

[XMitrilXPL]

Can you do sequel videos to this?
There are probably more specs that aren't important

[ultraplague]

Manufacturers of gaming mice mice seem to to be pushing the whole "higher DPI = better performance" thing, although that typically isn't the case...

[genericname]

"Not everything is what it seems"
SunTzu, The art of observation.

[cernsb]

Taking your car analogy for processor clock speeds, it's more like choosing the car based on the engine RPM, rather than top speed

[lord-sive]

You know what's frustrating?
When they don't mention the RAM and SSD speed