Isn’t it both?

I'll upgrade to a 5800X3D if it's $200, otherwise it'll be at least another 3 years.

What's the benefit of being configurable and upgradeable. Doesn't that mean that you end up spend more money in the long run? That argument used to make sense where parts were cheaper and you could always change one in the future.

I still think that consoles tend to be more future proof than a pc. Especially if you build one for a similar price to a pc.

All of your arguments only make sense with cheaper parts.

Hey maybe not charge 300-700 bucks for enthusiasts grade boards yeah?

Schools went crazy buying Chromebooks for 1:1 devices when COVID hit, a drop was expected if not inevitable

The problem with housing access isn't buildings. It's land.

I think productivity has improved. Those gains might not be reflected in housing costs, but that's not the same. I saw two guys put up a whole house of windows in one day a couple years ago. When my parents built a house in the 90s, that took a week. Concrete pours are faster, electrical is faster and cheaper, roofing is more efficient. There are lots of efficiency gains.

The competition still won't. They'd be dumb not to.

You receive two job offers, both paying 100,000/yr. You like both equally, benefits are the same, everything is identical except one requires you to spend $10,000/yr on transportation and parking and the other $1,000. Do I need to ask if you will accept the one with lower costs and tell them your labor is worth $9,000/year less?

Unless the motivation and goal is to sell cheaper houses the developer won't. And there isn't really any competition - it isn't like a restaurant or a shirt,there is one lot for sale just as there is only one year of your time for sale.

If the builder can sell the house for a million he will sell it for a million if he has to pay a plumber or not. And why wouldn't he?

Now if there are two identical units side by side and one needed a number and the other not and only one buyer then that's different. But when there is only one developer building every house in a 50 acre subdivision or condo highrise then they will minimize expense but maximize sale value wherever possible.

No but the competition will. Farther down in this thread someone who is knowledgable explained this to me. Finishing costs, plumbing, electrical, these things are a large portion of the cost. It is better to prefab wall units and transport them onsite

If you can build a house for $80,000 and sell it fot $100,000 you will be happy.

If you can build the same house for $40,000 and still sell it for $100,000 you are not going to lower the price.

I'm not sure about slow. There was a farm across the street, 2 months later.. It's 30 houses now

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The motors are actually pretty well waterproof already except for the bearings. And even those are sealed so they'd likely work for a while (but then probably get rusty over time).

They will just be priced by sq. footage like all other housing more profits!

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The thing I hate about that 7 year figure for support is that it comes with so many hidden catches. First and foremost is that it starts from when the device first came out, so in order to get anywhere near that figure you have to buy a brand new device which may or may not have any trustworthy reviews at that point. And even after that they may not get new features added to ChromeOS. I had an early chromebook that Google had explicitly promised would be getting an update to run Android apps and the Google Play Store. Years passed, it ran out of it's support period, and it never happened.

I'm 29.

Im well aware that tv was used on us for the exact same thing, and don't get me wrong I bet that moment of silence as a parent is bliss.

I dunno...the tablets seem far more addictive though.

"Who's got no thumbs and 7 thumbs? THIS guy. "

I have put a lot of thinking about what I would do about technology if I were a parent. I think I settled on allowing them to have a phone or tablet and heavily restricting them to limit the addictiveness.

Because a pc is 1000x more versatile, configurable, upgradable, and future-proofable than any single console that has ever existed.

Also because the dude said he wanted one

Yeah, that's basically the market right now. You can either buy an iPad or one of Samsung's higher-end Android tablets if you want a decent experience, and the rest of the market seems to mainly be chasing the lower end of the market.

Google likes to pretend that Chromebooks can be nice by releasing things like the Pixelbook, but everyone knows that the main reason why they sell is because they are cheap.

If they're sticking to 1080p-1440p, why not just go for a console instead?

The products are just well built and last a long time. Had several android phones and none lasted as long as my current iPhone, damn thing still runs like I just bought it.

Unfortunately Verizon doesn't sell them directly. Only way to use them on Verizon is to buy them unlocked.