It’s almost like there’s no such thing as Reddit and every single account here is an individual with different opinions

Reddit: “Is [lack of space in your tiny apartment] a problem for literally anyone cause it sounds made up on the spot.”

Also Reddit: “Fuck cars! Fuck houses! Everyone except the rich should live in high-density housing, own nothing, walk to work, and be happy about it!”

I mean I agree, but we're talking about an 8+ year old CPU.

Machines running SteakOS are pretty rare

But who cares if it’s still hitting his performance expectations

Nintendo uses less advanced hardware and sells its consoles with a positive margin.

I also have a 14 pro but at night in bed, the faceid has trouble unlocking and most of the time I have to type in my passcode. I wish we’d get both options, at least for the pro series.

Which AAA game hurt you?

Situation I'm in for sure. Food + housing + pet supplies come before a PC build, no matter how old my current desktop is.

That CPU still needs to feed the GPU. In the end it depends on the game and needs of the user. Easy rule, if the CPU is around 100% he is an issue, if not GPU is.

This is the way

I’m a multi platform gamer. For the past several years I have been enjoying more and more games that don’t require high-end hardware. AAA publishers have been fucking over gamers for years and are churning out garbage. Meanwhile there are small devs out there making games because they enjoy games. I can play those games on hardware that is 10 years old.

High resolutions are typically more GPU limited. If he's not aiming for 120fps, an old CPU does a lot better in games than people think it will.

The efficiency loss can get as low as 8% on the last comparisons I saw. That may be even lower now. Also means you can have a much slimmer, cooler laptop. I nearly went this route last laptop I bought, but I ended up finding a steal when walmart refreshed their laptops to the 2000 series.

If I remember correctly every console ever produced has sold at a loss until years later. Many never turn a profit on the console itself, just the games.

I built my parents a desktop ten years ago with a 4570 and 16gb or ram. For what they do it's still all they need and still runs windows 10. Gamers and business are the only people who regularly upgrade anymore.

This is also great news for my Dell Inspiron 16 plus laptop, whose secondary SSD slot only fits 2230. Those were basically not available (or only at horrendous prices) for a long time, and the rise of aftermarket upgrades for the Steam Deck is slowly changing that.

I bought a full custom watercooling setup for my 11th gen-3000 series build. Might wait another 2 or 3. Depends on if I get this huge pay raise, then I'll just buy

My macs generally last about 8 years before becoming too obsolete. While I’m excited to get an M2, I don’t have a need just yet. I’m guessing I’ll be getting an M4 or M5.

Gamers propped the market up. GPU manufacturers betrayed gamers by inflating prices when crypto mining became popular. Console manufacturers are putting out high quality hardware, even selling at a loss, and are getting PC gamers to convert. Less PC gamers, less CPUs being sold. That’s my guess.

Crappy desk layout. My office has a long “custom” multi station desk and each station has a certain amount of leg room for chair etc. The compact mid tower shares that space. It gets to feel intrusive and “in the way”. Yep that’s no fault of the tower at all (and a desk problem and not a computer problem) but there’s many times I wish I could just get rid of the box down by my feet and put a tiny one behind my monitors.

The screen connector on the Mobo is already one that supports touch panels. I think Framework expected it to be a future option, they just haven't got to making it a reality.

For a moment I thought the upgrade was done at the cost of removing the cooling fan.

Well basing anything off the price gouge offered by a PC company is a bit silly. I was browsing for an upgrade for a friend the other day and to upgrade the RAM and SSD from 8g-16g and 512MB-1TB respectively raised the price by around 500. Meanwhile the individual prices of just buying a 2TB M.2 SSD and 16g of ram from newegg was about 150 pounds. Imagine more than tripling the price for what amounts to 3 screws worth of work.

It could be a cool travel PC. Go on a vacation and have a gaming PC for the hotel room.