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hey what is up guys I'm Kim PhD here and I don't know if you noticed but in the background of my Galaxy s7 impressions video that ezel TV back there yeah that is the crazy super expensive samsung s9 TV from CES two years ago so that was kind of the inspiration for coming back to this topic of ridiculously overpriced stuff so we had top 5 most expensive tech part 1 this is going to be 5 more of the worst deals in tech number one hard drives but not just normal everyday hard drives those actually tend to be a pretty good deal but the ones that cost more and claim to be super fast like the SuperSpeed hard drives the 10,000 rpm hard drives at this point in 2016 the only real reason to go with a hard drive over a solid-state drive is if you need more storage for the price hard drives tend to be slower but also way cheaper for the same amount of storage than an SSD except for the SuperSpeed drives this is a Velociraptor 10,000 rpm one terabyte drive before SSDs these are actually a really cool idea but now they're literally the worst of both worlds they're still slower in most read and write speed than any SSD but they're also less durable and less reliable than any SSD and they don't match the density of a regular larger three and a half inch hard drive that there's so much more expensive than so really just make up your mind you can just get a big slow hard drive or really fast SSD sorry for going on so long about hard drives so number two is the luxury smartphone that I'm not even sure if anyone actually buys right so I'm going to go down a list of specs of a smart phone and you can just go ahead and tell me roughly what you think it should cost you know high end mid range whatever you think let me know ok ready Snapdragon 801 chip 3 gigabytes of RAM Android 4.4 KitKat a 5-inch 1080p IPS display 20 megapixel camera $6,000 now I'm no smartphone expert or anything but I've owned a few smart phones in my day and I can definitely say that that one is overpriced by a lot I was going to say it's kind of like the the beats by dre of smartphones but it's worse than that really the mark-up is even more insane so their justification or at their selling point he actually is exactly this uncompromising quality in every detail down to the stitching and vibrant color choices to help our devices and users stand out from a sea of too familiar phones so when you're too cool for the normal phones apparently I know everyone likes luxury and everyone likes limited edition stuff but a smartphone is actually a tool that you have to use every day it's not like some ornament that you just put up on a shelf and tell stories about now if you don't use your smartphone every day and it is an ornament then sure by all means put it up on a shelf talk about it don't actually use it but if you use your smartphone everyday like a tool like most people do then avoid anything with the name virtu on it number three the Apple watch Edition this kind of falls into the same category as smart phones I had a harder time putting this one on my list because it is actually materially pretty valuable but you're gonna have to hear me out here the Apple watch is already pretty expensive for a smart watch right comes in anywhere from 350 bucks all the way up to you know 1,100 1,200 bucks so it's pretty high-end you ever watch that TV show with 2 Chainz where they review the most expensive stuff in the world and I had that one episode with the world's most expensive ice cream do you remember how they made just simple ice cream end up a thousand bucks they literally just added pure gold to apparently gold is edible and the ice cream just got that much more expensive BAM Apple watch edition pure gold casing seventeen thousand dollars the thing is it's still a piece of tech and it's a first gen Apple product no less so you know the next generation one is going to be a lot better the number one suggested Google search result for Apple watch is Apple watch 2 there's going to be new Apple watch in a couple months with some new features better performance better battery life better build quality better everything you played yourself number four is the crazy expensive HDMI cables I'm going back to those again I did go over them a bit in the first video but I'm just really entertained at this point by how many different ways they're coming up with now to try to charge a couple hundred dollars for cable unique silver and gold contacts with innovative HD grip for great connection carbon fiber plug for high-tech elegance we twisted the wires a little bit for exquisite sound video the silver somehow illuminates the fine details yeah okay alright number five last but not least in the most overpriced tech is going to go to the Sennheiser Orpheus $50,000 headphones they're crazy well presented the marble and glass casing are dope the tube amp lighting up is awesome and it presents itself to this awesome experience but they only sound like 20,000 bucks max Sennheiser let's be real I mean I love you guys I love sine Iser but let's be real so there you have it that's your most overpriced tech in the second episode honorable mentions I got to go with the Panasonic 4k Toughpad it's a 4k tablet in more than one way the pono player a super high resolution dedicated music player for 400 bucks just think about that one and this $15,000 charging cable i reaiiy have no idea how that happened if you have any other ideas for other ridiculously overpriced tech stuff feel free to leave that in the comments section right below you can click on any of the ones I talked about in this video if you want to ruin your Amazon suggested recommendations forever and that's pretty much it I'm out of here thanks for watching I'll talk to you guys the next one peace