techs are like love at first sight

Some nights I feel like Andy Rooney, you know that old man on CBS 60 minutes, I've got that urge to complain a bit. Tonight is on of those nights.

New technology is like "love at first sight". It looks good, it feels great and you know you'll enjoy it. But there's allways a downside, the quality is crap. Sooner or later you'll get one too many brews involved.

I know for a fact that the nintendo gamecube IS coke-proof, I bought one and by misstake a coke was poured on it. It still works. But my nokia cellphone is NOT booze-proof. This is kind of like love - with a bit of luck coke-proof, but not booze-proof.

The Xbox, was an ugly mother****, but a massive load of hardware and great games, it came form nowhere and struck me right in the face.

The gamecube, wasn't really an impressive machine. No groundbreaking techs, nothing really good about it, but it the quality was A-OK.

leaving the game consoles for a sec, and refocus at another technology, cellphones...
All of my cellphones have been crap, the look good, feel right, but one morning -when you realize you've overslept - it's stoped to function right (no sound). This have happend a few times to often now. A few months before i orderd a new mouse (the logitech mx1000) and I got a disfunctional one. Another example of crappy quality is Oblivion. High expectations, but a load of crap - it looked good, felt right and I really looked forward playing it through (especially after ALL the good reviews!). I didn't even get a brew involved, perhaps that's what's wrong?

Back to the consoles, I've seen and played the Xbox360, and yeah it looks good("-isher" at least) and feels just right when you hold the controler. But I've read a lot of problems about it, like overheating, buring down houses, etc. Had a lot of expectations of the PS3, but as E3 passed by (too fast) I hardly was impressed by it, even though it has lots of cool techs -the cell processor- it looked like a refrigirator. And nintendos new cool "wii" (wherever they came up with that idiotic name) is truely an impressive console. Looks like an ipod, and probably works as well as one too: crappy -lifespan: one year, but hopefully it will still be coke-proof!

I'm truely afraid of investing a lot of money in more crap, but I'll probably do it anyway. Just like i keep on involving girls in my life. Crap, crap, crap.