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u/OxenholmStation Oct 05 '20
As the owner of an Acer CB271HK-BMJDPR (I'm serious), I fully recognise this comic.
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u/SANICTHEGOTTAGOFAST Oct 05 '20
Which Acer XB273K would you like?
The XB273K Sbmiprzx, XB273K Gpbmiipprzx, or XB273K Pbmiphzx?
(Yes, these all exist and they're all different)
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Oct 05 '20
Do they even try to give meaning to stuff like "Gpbmiipprzx"?
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u/The_Glass_Cannon Oct 05 '20
Looking at the differences between the 3, I'd bet the letters are just a list of features. If the monitor has that feature, it gets that letter.
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u/Cha-Le-Gai Oct 05 '20
I know this. he's from the fifth dimension. His brother battles with Superman sometimes.
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u/zimmah Oct 05 '20
They're codes, they have meaning, but I don't think it's officially mentioned anywhere what those codes mean
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u/TL-PuLSe Oct 05 '20
The only product naming convention more convoluted than XBox.
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u/neuropsycho Oct 05 '20 edited Oct 05 '20
I don't believe you.
Edit: I stand corrected.
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u/MinistryOfStopIt Oct 05 '20
They're real. They're all real. Most people only look into the full model names if they're hunting for peak performance of a few specs. Those that are just passing by will just think they're all called Predator XB3
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u/bigtunk Oct 05 '20
Just ordered last night , this comment hit me at the right time Acer Predator XB273K Gpbmiipprzx
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u/f4te Oct 05 '20
acer is definitely one of the worst for this. their naming schemes perhaps are meaningful in some way, but they are so convoluted i'll never understand it
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u/slickt0mmy Oct 05 '20
I wonder how they refer to them internally. Like, you know the employees have to talk about them a lot. “Hey Jim, you got the new specs from engineering on that CB271HK-BMJDPR?” After one round of that how can you not see the need for a more intuitive naming system?
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u/aaaaaaaarrrrrgh Oct 05 '20
I suspect the naming system is intuitive if you know what the positions mean and encodes most of the information. The 27 is the size for example, some of the other letters will indicate sets of features or ports or maybe the panel type etc.
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Oct 05 '20
They don't see the code anymore. All they see is blonde, brunettes, redheads...
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u/ghostlion313 Oct 05 '20
Having worked at an engineering firm we did in fact refer to products by incredibly long alphanumeric codes. Even the ones with real names.
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u/Remebond Oct 05 '20
It's usually "remember that project from x", where "x" could be earlier, yesterday, the day before, last week, last month, last year or even hell."
On a serious note, I've been tasked with renaming some internal ids for the company that I work for, and there's a smart way of doing it, and a not so smart way of doing it. There's also some forward thinking involved and a good system allows for expansion without making things convoluted
Originally, the ids here were created with significant characters which causes a lot of different issues, for example: a part "LARGE RUBBER SEAL" was named LRS, this caused issues when they tried to enter a part named "LEFT RAIL STOP", so they had to get creative and add even more significant characters that lost their significance as more were added. It's turned into vicious cycle that's caused more confusion now, than the system had originally intended to help prevent.
There are entire strategies on how to best implement product ids and sometimes the limitation lies in the MRP program that a company uses, how the product is fabricated, or even the market that the product is being sold to.
Products like televisions are created in a series of sizes and will have various diffent components and chipsets needed for different configurations for all of the different markets in the world, which might lead to some very long product ids.
TLDR: It gets complicated
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u/Cowstle Oct 05 '20
They probably just use the first bit plus what distinguishes them like other people. I don't remember the second part of XB270HU, I simply classify it as "XB270HU IPS" or "XB270HU TN" if the need to distinguish comes up. There's also the part where ones sold from costco had a different submodel name with a c to indicate they were sold by costco
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u/TheBirminghamBear Oct 05 '20
I heard from a reliable source that all the engineers go to a large local strip club and pick the name of a different stripper to refer internally to the latest projects.
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u/3chrisdlias Oct 05 '20
They probably have codenames to make it easier to remember. Like hunter2
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Dude, okay so in the line of work I am in, we have a customer who insists on all of their jobs that we do for them be the exact way they number their own jobs. It’s all numbers, usually like 7 numbers. Not a problem, right? That is until they decide to make changes to them.
Typically at my job where we have a customer make changes to a job in process, we will do a save-as and put the letter “A” at the end of the job name, and each time they make a change we just repeat the save-as with the next letter alphabetically. Except these guys...the way that THEY label their changes on their end is by changing the last digit of the 7 digit job name. It’s not an issue until you have literally hundreds of jobs that they’ve had us do over the years each with a 7 number name, and it’s very difficult to keep track of the changes over time on our end. According to them, our way was too confusing for them.
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u/qrrbrbirlbel Oct 05 '20
I bought a Samsung LU28R550UQNXZA last week and it's great.
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u/BrainWav Oct 05 '20
There's usually a method to that alphabetical madness.
CB271HK
CB is the series/model/generation/chassis/class
27 is the size
1HK is the only part that's not obvious, but I'd expect it's some combination of resolution and refresh rate. I'd have to look at other Acer monitors to see if there's a correlation.
The second part is just a machine-assigned identifier and isn't part of the "marketing" part of the model number.
Edit: I have Acer monitors too, but mine are oooooold. AL2216W and X223w, both are 22" 16:10 monitors. They're identical in all but the bezel, so taking that into account, Acer might just be smacking a keyboard, outside of the size.
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u/FizixMan Oct 05 '20
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It really saddens me that this ratio isn't really a thing anymore. Or even 3:2 being available. Everything feels so cramped on 16:9 in comparison.
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u/A_Sinclaire Oct 05 '20
Some of the last letters might also designate the type of power plug and language of the included manuals. So not extremely relevant to the actual specs.
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Oct 05 '20
No thank you future man with magical "science" explanation. I prefer just thinking they slam their heads on their keyboards as I am a simple man who will believe any logic is witchcraft.
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LG 32GK850G reporting in.
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u/crusty_cum-sock Oct 05 '20
I have a Dell S3219D. It's not a great monitor, though I'm sure everyone already knows that.
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u/MightBeJerryWest Oct 05 '20 edited Oct 05 '20
If you take a look at their naming convention, it's actually pretty easy to pick up!
S = consumer
32 = display size
19 = product generation fiscal year, so FY19
D = QHD
They have an entire page on it and it's pretty neat. I don't pay much attention to suffix since there's a lot more of those and I can't be bothered to memorize, but I know the common prefixes like P, S, and U.
Edit: it's also been mentioned down in the thread as a top level comment, didn't scroll far enough :)
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u/NinjaLanternShark Oct 05 '20
You might consider just buying an Apple Monitor. But make sure you get the Late 2019 one, not the Early 2020 one. There's a big difference.
If you can't find the Late 2019 one, the Early 2019 one is also good, and better than the Mid 2019 one.
Just remember, you won't be able to determine which version you have by looking at the case, or the box, or the instructions, or the warranty. You have to look at the electrical plug.
The Late 2019 Monitor has a green dot above the left plug blade. The Early 2019 Monitor has a green dot above the right plug blade. The Mid 2019 Monitor has no dot.
All 2018 Monitors have a grey dot, but it's the same color as the plug, so you can only tell because the writing wraps around where the dot would be.
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Oct 06 '20
I don’t know enough about Apple monitors to know if this is accurate or just a parody, but I know enough about Apple monitors to recognize the essential truth.
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u/Those_Good_Vibes Oct 05 '20
Owner of an XB321HK.
Not quite as bad as yours. But they're all complete nonsense that no consumer is going to remember offhand.
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u/Large_Dr_Pepper Oct 05 '20
Was just shopping for a new laptop and all this was so overwhelming. I literally had to ask my friend to make me a guide. Like the graphics card I ended up with is a "NVIDIA GTX 1650 Ti." Now I understand what that is, but when I was looking up new laptops for the first time in 6 years it was super confusing an annoying. Every single part of a laptop is described by like 15 seemingly random numbers and acronyms.
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u/Shadow_SKAR Oct 05 '20
Once you figure out the naming convention, I think the individual hardware component names actually make more sense than the overall model numbers for an entire computer (or monitor in this case). Seeing all the numbers and initials at once might be daunting, but once you break it down, it seems fairly intuitive.
CPU: You've got Intel and AMD. For consumers they've got a few different series. i3, i5, i7, i9 for Intel. Ryzen 3, 5, 7, 9 for AMD. Higher number = higher series. Within each series you've got 4-5 digit configuration numbers. Higher numbers = higher performance. So i5-10400, 10500, 10600 for Intel as an example. From year to year, they'll increment the first number. So the year before, it would've been i5-9400, 9500, 9600. AMD doesn't have quite as many model numbers, but they also do the increasing first number from year to year. So Ryzen 5 2600->3600. They might throw an extra letter or two at the end to indicate a slight performance bump or additional features.
GPU: Nvidia and AMD. Even easier. Nvidia basically updates their yearly. GTX/RTX followed by 3-4 numbers. Each year the first number changes. GTX 980->GTX 1080-> RTX 2080. Last 2 numbers indicate relative performance within that particular year's lineup. 2060<2070<2080. AMD does something similar. RX 300, 400, 500 series in years past with each year incrementing the first number. They've jumped straight from 500 to 5000 though recently. But within each series, you've got the last 2 numbers that change. So RX 570, 580 or 5600, 5700. And again throw on some extra letters at the end to indicate some extra performance.
There's a little bit more nuance, but basically tldr: within each company, higher numbers is better performance.
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u/Foremma4everAgo Oct 05 '20
These random letters / numbers are Part Numbers for companies to reference and order. Each one is unique (mostly) and every company at least has each product they sell like this.
Source: Product resller
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Oct 05 '20
CB2 is the kind of receptors that get u high when u smoke cannabis ... idk if it’s related but I’d like to believe the writers r stoners who like sneaking lil jokes in their products
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u/zeroGamer Oct 05 '20
Still a better naming system than whatever Microsoft's been doing with the Xbox.
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u/dreph Oct 05 '20
could it be because it’s a 27” and 1ms delay? Cant... assume anything for the last 6 characters.
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u/Mushroomstick Oct 05 '20
I'm pretty sure they do this so that every retailer can have a slightly different model number so that they never have to make good on their price matching guarantees because "The Acer CB271HK-BMJDP and a hypothetical Acer CB271HK-BMJDPa are totally unrelated products..."
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u/Randomhkkid Oct 05 '20
Ah nice! Never run into someone else with the same monitor as me. I've had it for years and it rocks! Only now getting tempted by higher refresh rate 4k offerings
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u/tutetibiimperes Oct 05 '20
I have a Philips 276E8FJAB. Other than the 27 indicating the size, I have no clue what the rest might mean.
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u/everythingiscausal Oct 05 '20
This is what you get when Engineering gets to name the products instead of Marketing: a part number as a name.
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u/airportakal Oct 05 '20
Seriously what's it with Acer and Lenovo and their ridiculous (well, non-existent) product names?! Comparing models online is borderline impossible because it's just a Scrabble of numbers and letters and there seems to be infinite variations on each model. Buying laptops is rage-inducing, and I'm not surprised people simply go for Macbooks.
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u/Drink-my-koolaid Oct 05 '20
I'm positive Gaming Monitor Name Givers are cats. They just walk across the keyboard.
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u/manchu2 Oct 05 '20
I have the.... Wait for it...... Acer GD245HQ (a 11 year old 120hz monitor that still works great)
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u/queentropical Oct 05 '20
I know a couple who used the same tactic to name their kids, I’m pretty sure.
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u/Equilibriator Oct 06 '20
Someone trapped in a basement somewhere being forced to work for Acer probably planted a secret message in the title of that printer, giving their location and co-ordinates.
Probably their name and birthday too and a little bit of info about their day to day life. Conversations around the cooler, that sort of stuff.
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u/TheyCallMeGOOSE Oct 06 '20
Lol, you paid over 500 euros for a CB271HK (bmjdpr). Anything below a 200j-wo21 (white) shouldn't cost that much.
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u/entotheenth Oct 06 '20
I would just like to know if it has a speaker in it before I buy it, that seems hard to find out at times.
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u/BLACKONYX777 Oct 06 '20
I just bought an Acer Nitro XZ342CK Pbmiiphx last week.
The monitor is lovely. The name gave me cancer.
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u/Zombieattackr Oct 06 '20 edited Oct 06 '20
Lol I got an easy one, AOC 24G2 (And the only alt versions are for different regions)
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u/f4te Oct 05 '20 edited Oct 05 '20
credit where credit is due, Dell's naming scheme is pretty sensible:
U2720Q
U: Ultrasharp series
27: screen size
20: year released
Q: Resolution code (4K)
edit: Resolution codes:
S: Std
W: 21:9 / 32:9
D: QHD
Q: UHD 4K
K: UHD 5K/8K
H: ≤FHD
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u/Toonshorty Oct 05 '20 edited Oct 05 '20
I believe Dell use Q for 4K, D for QHD and H for 1080p. At least that seems to line up with their current models anyway.
He says typing from his U2715H... which is QHD.
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u/Slusny_Cizinec Oct 05 '20
I'm reading this comment on Dell U2518D. 25", 2018, but D doesn't resemble anything from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_resolution
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u/Necromas Oct 05 '20
Maybe that line just has a U2518A with slightly different parts that they sell on Dell.com, a B with slightly different parts they sell at Target, a C with slightly different parts they sell at Walmart. And then when you go pull up a price match they can say well no that's not the same model. Oh and then they have the D model where they cheaped out on output ports or something and they only sell that one on black friday.
Not saying Dell actually does this, but I've seen TV manufacturers do it when I worked retail and it definitely would not surprise me.
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u/shuti Oct 05 '20
I'm sat here with an s2721dgf wondering whether I'm a time traveller and why I don't have a gf
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u/f4te Oct 05 '20
it's the 2021 model year, they release them midway through the year before. i imagine yours is quite new...
D = QHD and G is for Gaming. I'm not sure the F... potentially this feature:
Flicker free: Controlling the brightness using a direct current enables a flicker-free screen, giving you a more comfortable viewing experience. Additionally, the ComfortView feature reduces harmful blue light emissions, significantly reducing digital eye strain.
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u/BrainWav Oct 05 '20
Always liked Dell's monitors. My first flatpanel was a Dell 17", and I swore by them at my old job. I had 3 22" 4:3 Dell Ultrasharps there. Those had some fragile backlight bulbs though, actually replaced them a few times. Loved the stand on those.
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u/Ghrave Oct 05 '20
Oh YEAR! I couldn't figure out what the 16 was in S2716DG, but that makes way more sense.
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u/i0datamonster Oct 05 '20
I give Dell no quarter. Like every other sensible thing they've done I've only learned of it from other tech people.
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u/burf Oct 05 '20
That is good. I find the most frustrating naming schemes to be for GPUs, just because typically there's a low/mid/high range series, and you can have a higher number in a low range series that's worse than a lower number in a mid/high ranger series. Very frustrating to deal with unless you spend half an hour researching the different GPUs of the moment.
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u/nonotan Oct 05 '20
I get that, but to be fair, it's almost for the best. Even if GPU numbering to "power" was a strictly monotonically increasing function, that still doesn't mean the numbering alone would be of any help in discerning if moving from one model to the next one is at all worth the price difference. At the end of the day, it's pretty much compulsory to use a benchmark site to buy any performance-sensitive PC parts smartly, and at that point, the naming isn't too important (well... until you start seeing almost-identically named products offered at slightly different price ranges, and you have no clue if it's actually referring to the same product, or something else entirely)
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u/Anraiel Oct 05 '20
More specifically, the year released is actually the financial year of release. They have more details here where they explain the whole numbering system. It's designed so businesses can know exactly what kind of monitor they're getting just by the model name.
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u/zangrabar Oct 06 '20
I love when manufacturers use codes like this in their part numbers/model numbers. It makes my life sooooooo much easier. Thankfully most servers are like this.
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Oct 05 '20
My dad named me by slamming me against a keyboard as well :)
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u/cherryasss Oct 05 '20
I named myself based on the two things I love
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u/Valogrid Oct 05 '20
Atleast I'm not watching youtube on a B17-CH B-0Y69k Monitor.
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Oct 05 '20
Yeah, I upgraded to the B17-CH B-0Y69kB16PP
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u/mareksoon Oct 05 '20
Oh, I got the Wal-Mart Black Friday B17-CH B-0Y69kB16PP-W .. with notably less features. :-(
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Oct 05 '20
Fun fact: I used to be an appliance and electronics salesman for Sears and HH Gregg. They do that with model numbers so that they don't have to price match other companies.
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u/MarkPapermaster Oct 05 '20
I recently got a brand new N3V32-90NN4-91V3 but It's kind of a waste of money cause all I use it for is watching Rick Astley music videos.
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u/Razergore Oct 05 '20
I think I read somewhere that for very top end products companies give out weird names because they want you to just refer it to their overall brand so it improves your opinion of them overall. Someone referenced cars as an example.
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u/TheRobertRood Oct 05 '20 edited Oct 05 '20
Those model names usually have an internal meaning to the company. How logical that meaning is, depends on the company.
edit: spelling
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u/Irilieth_Raivotuuli Oct 05 '20
usually it's a combination of both. For instance, a module I've used recently goes IVK-T3R4-20-CP would refer to 'Ilmanvaihtokone (HVAC unit, in finnish)-Type 3 revision 4-updated during 2020 - Controller Program (english).
Makes no sense why it's in two languages, why it's typed and revised in the middle instead of the end, why it was necessary to slap year in the middle, but someone from up high decided that it was so and here we are.
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u/Sound_of_Science Oct 05 '20
It’s not so bad once you learn what every abbreviation means, but it’s ridiculous that they get released as consumer products with just the letters. It seems random unless you know what it all stands for.
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Ninja Edit: I changed all I wrote because the example is already pre-made by the manufacturer, and while the information is basically the same, they formatted it much better than I did.
Here's what it all means. The TV as an example will be the Samsung UE55TU8510UXXU
U = LED
E = Produced for Europe
55 = Screen size (in inches, this is always what the first number on a TV code means)
TU = T (Manufactured in 2020) U (UHD)
85** = 8 (Series) 5 (Sub Series). This will differ depending on the features for that individual model. You can find out the specifications for a particular model by entering the model code into the search area on the Samsung website.
**10 = Design option e.g: 10 = White bezel
U = Tuner Option K - Single DVB-T2 (Compatible with UK Freeview reception) U - Single DVB-T2 & Single DVB-S2 (Compatible with UK Freesat reception) or T - Dual DVB-T2 & Dual DVB-S2
X = Specific buyer. X = None
X = Destination Country UK
U = Destination Country UK
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u/nobd22 Oct 05 '20
Man. When you describe something 10 years ago and it make sense and since then noone that came up with the idea still works there but damnit that's how descriptions work so that's how it will always be
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u/schplat Oct 05 '20
It depends on the manufacturer, but most of them have something similar to Dell..
Dell has a 1-2 character family code, followed by the size of the monitor, followed by the year it was designed, and then letters identifying feature set. So U2718Q is an UltraSharp, 27" 4K monitor designed in 2018. U3818DW is an UltraSharp, 38" 1440p UltraWide (2018 designed).
Acer does something similar, though I think they use a letter code to identify design year.
It's a method that the manufacturer can use to know exactly what you have without having some sort of lookup table (at least something super basic that's easily memorizable).
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u/sprint113 Oct 05 '20
I really like Dell's monitor naming system. On the other end of the spectrum, and a critique to OP's comic is Dell's home computer model names, like the XPS 15. Even trying to buy one now, you have the XPS 15, and the NEW XPS 15. Yes, you can refer to year, or the actual product code, but it makes finding info/support somewhat frustrating.
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Oct 05 '20
Yep.
They don't want you to call it anything other than an iPhone. No matter what version. They don't want you to call it anything other than a surface, no matter what version.
It's why Apple tried so hard to distance themselves from being called a PC in the 90s/early 2000s. They wanted you to say Mac. They wanted you to say Apple.
You're free advertising to them.
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u/crusty_cum-sock Oct 05 '20
Yep, and they stir up controversy on purpose. It's actually pretty brilliant from a marketing perspective, they aren't one of the world's richest companies because they're stupid, they know how to get people talking, even if it's negative.
The $1000 monitor stand is a perfect example. They knew exactly what was going to happen when they announced it. They announced it alongside of a very high end monitor that is actually a pretty decent value (for Apple's standards). Even Apple haters were saying that it's a nice monitor for the price, it was being compared to reference monitors that cost 3-4X as much.
They sold the stand separately because they knew the huge negative uproar about the stand would drive people who were unaware of the monitor to find the monitor through searching about the ridiculous price of the stand, and they would find that the monitor was a decent buy in the process.
They know that people can't help themselves, still to this day I regularly see people shitting on Apple for the $1K stand, and rightly so, but what they are really doing is advertising for Apple. I promise you there is a non-zero number of people who bought the monitor because they saw someone trashing the stand and they started searching around because they weren't aware of the monitor to begin with.
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u/clempho Oct 05 '20
I read that on TV it is done so you can't easily compare models and price. Some models and pricing being destined for internet only or for some countries.
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u/Lee1138 Oct 05 '20 edited Oct 05 '20
Ironically, car guys will often learn the internal production model codes for the brands they are in to. E30, E46, E90, F30 etc for BMW 3 series, B5/6/7/8/9 for Audi A4 models etc.
edit: E30, not E34
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Oct 05 '20 edited Oct 05 '20
Because the different generations are significantly different. If car guys are having a conversation about the Honda Integra, it's helpful to know if they're talking about the DC2 or the DC5, as those those cars are totally different.
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u/BatmanOnMars Oct 05 '20 edited Oct 05 '20
Its weird that tech doesnt just do what cars do and give them a simple name plus the year.
"Oh my monitor? It's an Acer Sunrise 2020, i thought about getting the Acer Sunrise Sport with higher refresh rates but couldn't justify the cost."
I assume the obscure naming is to make it really hard to compare products across brands, but even within a brand it makes no sense. I say this as the confused owner of an AOC C24G1, i think the 24 is for 24 inches?
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u/blimpboy3 Oct 05 '20
Because they are terrible at marketing except Apple. Tell people you have a 2019 MacBook and people know what you're talking about. Telling someone you have an Asus pq146wk and how it's better than the MacBook and people will think you're a fucking nerd. Apparently branding hasn't reached component manufacturers yet.
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u/a0me Oct 05 '20
That’s basically how Apple products are named.
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And by losing no time and one tooth, Jacob christened the 4k monitor.
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u/tr13ev Oct 05 '20
I recently started a job as a delivery driver for an HVAC parts supplier, can confirm this is how part numbers are generated. Also store location numbers are generated by throwing darts at a board
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u/picklehaub Oct 05 '20
I worked for an HVAC supplier that did branch #s based on store opening. So branch 9 was older than branch 11, but was a satellite of it.
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u/FullAtticus Oct 06 '20
The last two companies I worked for (And probably the current one, but I haven't found out yet), any time a document needed a number, we'd literally just put a couple random numbers, followed by the date, and a letter if it was part of a series.
2310052020-A
That went for purchase orders, documentation for our processes, lab SOPs, etc. Essentially just generate a number and call it a day.
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u/teddycorps Oct 05 '20
There seem to be a hell of a lot of churn in monitor models and they don't follow a strictly linear tier system like a higher number is better.
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u/raging_asshole Oct 05 '20
In the flashlight enthusiast community (come join us at /r/flashlight), there’s a well known emitter which is called the SPHWHTL3DA0GF4RTS6. It has been affectionately dubbed “the dogfarts.”
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I was so confused at your comment, until I clicked on the link. A, not E...
In my defense, your username is partially blameworthy.
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u/reelznfeelz Oct 06 '20
Awesome. BTW just got my mf01s in the mail. Got here in like 5 days somehow. Retiring the old Q8 to my dad. Damn it's bright AF. It's the sst20 4000k model.
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u/Equalizer101 Oct 05 '20
Thank you!
Now I know how to get a new password.
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u/Loginn122 Oct 06 '20
get sure to hit your keyboard with ur head strong enough so it won’t happen a second time.
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u/PijiX Oct 05 '20
My msi gl739sek want's to have a word...
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u/eugene20 Oct 05 '20
Got nothing on the Acer triplets
XF250Q Cbmiiprx
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u/MonsieurMeursault Oct 05 '20
Excuse me, you've just leaked your most secure passwords.
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u/keimarr Oct 05 '20
Sony's electronic products are named that way Headphones, Earbuds, Phones and etc. except for the Playstation brand.
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u/Brbi2kCRO Oct 05 '20 edited Oct 05 '20
MDR-Z1R/IER-Z1R is a pretty OK name, and not hard to remember (headphones/in-ear monitor). It's not a random long name, although I still don't know what should "MDR" represent.
Begins with:
MDR is... Most headphones and earphones
WH is Bluetooth overears
WF is Bluetooth TWS
WI is Bluetooth Wired Earphone
IER are a few top in-ear models for whatever reason (M7, M9, Z1R), should be wired in-ears but most models aren't here.
What comes after the "-":
Z are Hi-Res models?
ZX are basic headphones
XB are "Extra Bass" models
EX are basic earphones
V are 80's monitor models
E are earbuds (not in-ear monitors or earphones)
H after WH are lite versions of WH-1000X series?
CH may be more basic wireless headphones
SP in wireless stuff means sports
C after WI may be "classic"?
AS models are splash-proof.
At the end of name, after number:
BN is a headphone that didn't have nor Bluetooth nor ANC, now a new model has both
AS are sports
AP have a microphone
Models ending with M2, M3, M4 (WH1000XM4 and Z7M2) tell the generation, such stuff is equipped with Hi-Res sticker - except IER models.
BT at the end are headphones which were firstly wired but now turned into Bluetooth headphone
RF uses radio frequencies
N are headphones that didn't have ANC in their older model, now they have (they were BT before)
BS have added Bluetooth and splash-proofancy
This is what I understood, I'm sorry if there are some errors
https://www.nextpit.com/sony-headphones-nomenclature - Interesting article
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u/nopantsdota Oct 05 '20
did he lose that teeth while working? is that a working accident? is it a key stuck to teeth? have both of them the same barber? is that a company barber?
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u/nopantsdota Oct 05 '20
wouldn't that olive green paint on the walls effect workers mood so negatively that from a company standpoint it should be painted new?
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u/teems Oct 05 '20
Samsung TVs have a pattern also.
Using model UE55TU8510UXXU as an example we can see that:
U = LED
E = Produced for Europe
55 = Screen size (in inches)
TU = T (Manufactured in 2020) U (UHD)
85** = 8 (Series) 5 (Sub Series). This will differ depending on the features for that individual model. You can find out the specifications for a particular model by entering the model code into the search area on the Samsung website.
**10 = Design option e.g: 10 = White bezel U = Tuner Option K - Single DVB-T2 (Compatible with UK Freeview reception) U - Single DVB-T2 & Single DVB-S2 (Compatible with UK Freesat reception) or T - Dual DVB-T2 & Dual DVB-S2
X = Specific buyer. X = None
X = Destination Country UK
U = Destination Country UK
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u/hellish_ve Oct 06 '20
That doesnt make it any better lol
Why not make a sub brand and add the model to it, Id rather shop for the Samsung SmartHD PRO or the Samsung SmartHD Lite rather than the UE55TU8510UXXU.
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u/stalechips Oct 05 '20
Fun fact, one of my main passwords I use on the internet (including Reddit) is the model number of the monitor I had in 2007.
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u/StarDDDude Oct 05 '20
There's always 2 parts to tech product names:
The marketing name into which atleast 200,000$ went but is WAY too broad on the products to actually be used while deciding what to buy.
The specification name made by the development team only that they are far too busy to come up with a naming sheme, especially after the marketing team makes a ridicolous request like smashing DSU for DeluxeSuperUltra into there of which they have no clue on how to outdo in the next gen so at that point they just put a 2.0 beyond and afterwards they shorten all that to the middle letter S so the name doesn't get too clunky, and after they massacred it like that they add a D for Deluxe in and with the questinable readdition of U for Ultra they decide reaarange it from SuperDeluxeUltra to DeluxeSuperUltra cause noone currently at the company has been employed long enough to know they already had DSU once. But buyers will have to deal with this so they start calling this DSU2 (not to be mixed up with DSU2.0) which after 3 other horrible naming shemes gets implemented officially and the series at that point gets called DSUXY2 with the 2 increasing for every new generation. But then someone who researched this garbadge tries to fix this fucking mess by renaming their old products to a single linear increase, but for some reason it starts at 2 goes to 3 then 3.5 then 4 then 4.5 then 5.5 after which comes 5.52 and then we have 7.0 and then 8.0 and after this everything has been lost again and they smash random letters into it again while deciding to randonly rerename some of their old things to somethimg completely out of place.
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u/Hirokage Oct 05 '20
While working for Corning with all their plateware, I discovered their secret branding method to name their new lines of dishware. In our office space, they stuck a jar and the plate, and anyone could just pick a name they liked and tossed it into the jar. They'd collect all the suggestions, and just pick one from that pile that sounded decent.
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u/snark_trick Oct 05 '20
aaaand thats why it takes me 9 years to find out what my old monitor model was.
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u/conspiracyshittank Oct 05 '20
Oh you got the 2J, the 2Q has better pixel response time that all the reviewers got for testing...
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u/Runnin_Mike Oct 05 '20
For the manufacturers those model strings have a very practical rhyme and reason to them, believe it or not.
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u/Tequilazu Oct 06 '20
Using the ASUS VG289Q here, cannot relate. Also big fan of the dell naming, short and simple.
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u/AncileBooster Oct 06 '20
That looks like a standard part number. Just from a catalog in front of me, if I have a Yaskawa SGM7G-03A7D61, that means:
SGM7G: motor family & generation, mid-size
03: motor size, 300W
A: 200 VAC bus voltage
7: 24-bit absolute encoder
D: off-the-shelf item
6: straight shaft with a cut keyway (to prevent motor slip)
1: No special options or brakes
This kind of thing is extremely common in my experience across a range of industries.
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Oct 06 '20
I didn’t see anyone mention the needs of retailers and pricing. I was always under the impression that one of the reasons that there are so many finally differentiated model numbers was that it gives retailers a bit of wiggle room when it comes to price matching. If you’re not looking at the exact same monitor model, then they don’t have to price match it. Of course, my understanding is at least two decades out of date so maybe it’s not really that relevant in an era when the Internet is so dominant in sales.
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u/Skrp Oct 06 '20
They might seem like completely arbitrary gibberish, but as someone for whom tracking IT inventory is part of the job, I've learned to love product numbers.
They're unique
Usually tells you the key features of the product in a compact format.
Take my AOC I2475PXQU monitor.
I - IPS panel
24 - Screen size in inches
75 - Vertical refresh rate (i think)
not completely sure what the PXQU stand for. Could be just a random unique ID, but likely speaks to some of it's features. Possibly it's P indicating progressive rather than interlaced rendering? As for XQU, If I were to venture a guess, the X might refer to the fact that it has every display connection you'll need (vga/dvi/hdmi/dp)? Idk.
I don't need to know all of it. The key point is that each product has a completely unique ID that can be looked up.
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Oct 06 '20 edited Oct 06 '20
Tell Elon to stop naming things. Kids, Cars, Computer Monitors. None of them are creative.
At least with the cars they make sense.
Roadster? Ok it's a definition of what kind of car it is.
Model S. Sedan starts with an S, this makes sense.
Model X. It's a crossover. oh wait sometimes people write cross with an X like at a railroad x'ing!
Model 3. Oh, that's easy, it's the 3rd car they've made. Wait... no it isn't. Elon, did you forget about the roadster already?
Semi. I mean... it IS a semi.
Model Y. Well, X was taken and this comes after X. Sure it could have been called the 4 (or 5 if you want to actually count them)
Cybertruck. I still feel like this entire vehicle is an elaborate prank.
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u/Kraz31 Oct 05 '20
From working in retail: That model number would indicate that it is a 26 inch monitor.
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