PC gaming is a struggle for me as of now, I have an older rig which I would love to update but simply cant justify the cost. It is pretty frustrating when my friends xbox can run 4k games but the only GPU that is comparable is north of 500$.
The ML and crypto hysteria as well as AMD not willing to compete is not healthy for the long term PC gaming industry. It is certainly keeping me out of it.
>a good PC is a long term investment that pays off if you really like gaming
Yeah, that used to be true, but then 2020 happened and GPUs became unobtanium. Not to mention they've been seeing a steady price increase in MSRP since a few years before covid. I fondly remeber the days when ~$400 was enough to buy you a wicked high end GPU, like a GTX 1070, that would play all games at high settings and would last you a few years. Those days are gone now and even when the supply chain gets fixed, it looks like the hiked prices will be the new norm and are here to stay for a while, as the nvidia-amd duopoly realized there is enough demand even at these price points. Or at least until the next crypto bust (which, IMHO, can't come soon enough).
The "advantage" of consoles running super locked down walled gardened SW is that miners can't use them ... yet. So at least in the EU you can still buy the lastest gen consoles for MSRP if you're willing to look around hard enough.
GPUs for MSRP? Hell is more likely to freeze over before that happens.
That is colossally stupid statement, Toyota, Volvo and the big oems have been pushing ADAS features and safety since day 1, with the next logical step being this guardian type of system. Are you saying a company that builds 10 million cars a year has zero incentive to work on active safety?
I'd rather my car's safety systems be later to market but proven safe, than early to market and have me and the others around me as unpaid beta testers.
Bravo sir, I could not have said it better myself. I purchased a brand new XPS15 ubuntu 14.04 and it was a disaster -
The battery lasted about three hours, the $300 graphics card did not function at all because of poor drivers (graphics switching is still theoretical on even user friendly linux os' because of dark age xserver)
I had to spend two weeks to get the wifi working by messing around with conf files
The concept of hardware/software integration seems to evade the general purpose computing industry to the detriment of us all, I am not sure why someone hasn't built a tightly integrated linux laptop yet.
At this point the GUIS look pretty decent and there is plenty of software (most people only use browsers anyway) we just need to get the basics working well.
Worksations and laptops are not really the same thing, are they?
Every XPS15 we had in the office had some sort of issue. Either motherboard cooking itslef, battery dying prematurely, trackpads getting stuck, display flickering, laptop cooking itslef in the backpack, HDMI issue etc.
Unacceptable for such expensive devices.
>So what do you mean? Are there better laptops with Linux preinstalled from major oems?
Read my comment again. I mean XPSs are very badly designed and built devices. I never said others are better.
The ML and crypto hysteria as well as AMD not willing to compete is not healthy for the long term PC gaming industry. It is certainly keeping me out of it.
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