Get rid of them all!

You cannot have one manufacture without having the rest of them. either all the branded names will have to be removed, or none of them.

Stating the actual branded item can still exist in the title, and in the question without tagging the item itself.   

It does not matter what brand the item is All answers for the items will all be the same, no matter whos brand exists on the item.

Anyone who can Answer a question related to an Intel processor and motherboard, can just as easily answer a question for a AMD processor and motherboard , they are the same things.

Anyone who can answer a question about an ATI products can just as easily answer a question about a Nvida product, they all use the same software, they are just generic vide card items.

Anyone who can answer Mac Questions, should just as easily be able to answer Windows questions.

Having Favorited tags or Ignored tags for specific Branded items that a person knows nothing about, or a lot about , does not improve the site , or the ability for anyone to answer questions.

While your at it remove Photohop and put it under graphic editors, and remove OSX and linux and put it under OSes and Remove Mac and windows and put it under PCs , take out Excell and replace it with spreadsheet. Remove synergy , SQLserver , remove the 6 branded IM messinger items, and put it under IM. Remove all specific browsers, and put them under the browser headings, and all specific e-mail programs , and leave only 1 e-mail tag.

all media players under one tag, all text editing under one tag, all word processing under one tag. 

Add these to the list
Cisco 
Oracle
Verizon
Aspire
Synaptic
Radeon
AspireOne
Gforce
Nokia-e5
UltraBook
Shuttle
Sigmatel
N900
Ipad
Ipod
Iphone
Mother
Zebra
gigayte
Airport-Extreeme
Airport-Express
AppleTV
ati-mobility-radeon
ati-radeon
buffalo
canon-lide
canon-pixma
commodore

and that is just some 10-15% of the Branded hardware.
What I see is a being over run with zombies, and a Monster, with goofy wrong and unnessisary tags being added every 15 minutes. 

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