I disagree with everyone else here. This is even worse that sequential naming schemes.
Best is a name that actually contains information to distinguish different products. Look at fridge, washing machine, … names from Samsung, Bosch, …
You think the exactly same unit with some minute (hard to even find!) difference has almost the same name? No, fuck right off, there is no correlation. Have fun searching any specific product.
4K Monitor should have 4K in it’s name. 32" diagonal? 32 in the name. Not “KKEORGKE9183FK38F”.
If you want to see some awful SKUs, look at what HP did when they bought Poly. I’ll give you an example:
8D8K2AA#ABA. That’s for a Poly x52 video bar.
83Z51AA#ABA. Poly x70 video bar.
83Z50AA#ABA. Poly G7500 controller.
I asked our Poly rep what the naming scheme was and they told me…there isn’t one. HP randomly assigned SKUs.
Before getting bought out, Poly SKUs were pretty bad (7200-87620-001) but at least the system made sense. You might not be able to name the item but you could at least tell the difference between products and warranties.
The most commonly cited monitor in recent years for this is “AW3423DWF”… Which is AlienWare 34" (no idea what 23DW is) Freesync. I assume the 23DW has a point to it too.
Point is, people see a lot of characters and complain when in reality it is exactly what you are referring to. The name is an encoded version of its capabilities. Its just that the encoding isn’t always clear because if every company used the same encoding they would have the same name. and if there are 2 similar monitors you would need to have every feature in the name to differentiate them, so the shorthand encoding becomes necessary. (Eg, AW3423DW and AW3423DWF only really differ on freesync vs gsync, thus the F at the end)
D could stand for ‘Dell’ and W might have something to do with WQHD. 23, I have no idea, maybe meant as their flagship monitor in 2023, but that’s a stretch.
Dell owns Alienwar3, so generally I don’t see the need for that. Perhaps display port? 23 is indeed the manufactured year, like the other Dell monitors in this thread.
We literally bought a fridge three days ago and it drove me bloody mad.
The numbers mean absolutely nothing!!!
And why is the Siemens version cheaper than the Bosch version of the same fridge, and why aren’t they named something even remotely similar???
Why is this identical fridge $400 more???
(Ended up contacting Bosch to figure it out. It was a damn soft close function. For $400…)
Ended up going to the store and picking one based on physical testing because God forbid any retailer add anything more than a short text on each product.
Hope this one lasts us 50 years so I never have to buy another fridge again!
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I disagree with everyone else here. This is even worse that sequential naming schemes.
Best is a name that actually contains information to distinguish different products. Look at fridge, washing machine, … names from Samsung, Bosch, … You think the exactly same unit with some minute (hard to even find!) difference has almost the same name? No, fuck right off, there is no correlation. Have fun searching any specific product.
4K Monitor should have 4K in it’s name. 32" diagonal? 32 in the name. Not “KKEORGKE9183FK38F”.
If you want to see some awful SKUs, look at what HP did when they bought Poly. I’ll give you an example:
8D8K2AA#ABA. That’s for a Poly x52 video bar.
83Z51AA#ABA. Poly x70 video bar.
83Z50AA#ABA. Poly G7500 controller.
I asked our Poly rep what the naming scheme was and they told me…there isn’t one. HP randomly assigned SKUs.
Before getting bought out, Poly SKUs were pretty bad (7200-87620-001) but at least the system made sense. You might not be able to name the item but you could at least tell the difference between products and warranties.
The most commonly cited monitor in recent years for this is “AW3423DWF”… Which is AlienWare 34" (no idea what 23DW is) Freesync. I assume the 23DW has a point to it too.
Point is, people see a lot of characters and complain when in reality it is exactly what you are referring to. The name is an encoded version of its capabilities. Its just that the encoding isn’t always clear because if every company used the same encoding they would have the same name. and if there are 2 similar monitors you would need to have every feature in the name to differentiate them, so the shorthand encoding becomes necessary. (Eg, AW3423DW and AW3423DWF only really differ on freesync vs gsync, thus the F at the end)
D could stand for ‘Dell’ and W might have something to do with WQHD. 23, I have no idea, maybe meant as their flagship monitor in 2023, but that’s a stretch.
Dell owns Alienwar3, so generally I don’t see the need for that. Perhaps display port? 23 is indeed the manufactured year, like the other Dell monitors in this thread.
We literally bought a fridge three days ago and it drove me bloody mad.
The numbers mean absolutely nothing!!!
And why is the Siemens version cheaper than the Bosch version of the same fridge, and why aren’t they named something even remotely similar???
Why is this identical fridge $400 more??? (Ended up contacting Bosch to figure it out. It was a damn soft close function. For $400…)
Ended up going to the store and picking one based on physical testing because God forbid any retailer add anything more than a short text on each product.
Hope this one lasts us 50 years so I never have to buy another fridge again!
See you again in 3 to 5 years