Recent content by Brian_B

1K fanless is a feat. I agree, seems a bit niche, as once you get that large other components all have fans that make the PSU negligible. Still neat though.

If Windows Update makes Edge my default browser one more f'n time... I'm gonna go all Red Stapler.

I admit to watching that mostly just to watch her run down the isle with her hammer.

True, although any distro that you get Steam running on and put it in Big Picture mode is "pretty darn close"

I have no idea, but don't forget to account for inflation! I assume just about as many people are still regularly feeding their digital pets as are using their Oculus regularly. Perhaps a Venn diagram would show a lot of overlap there? I have no scientific data to back that up, other than I...

Tamagotchi has sold over 100 million too.

I've been so close to pulling the trigger on an OLED monitor, just haven't quite done it yet. My IPS monitors are still doing ok, but if any of them were to meet with an unfortunately accident... it would be a shame.

I kinda dig it actually. Not sure if I could actually find 5 1/4" drives to populate it though. But only if it still comes with the physical keyboard lock and Ghz speed indicator on the front.

I don't think I'm worried too much about the specs. I mean, I am not expecting a machine that can run 4k 120FPS based on what's been published - so it won't be a top dollar high margin machine. Once you come down off that cliff, it's all about what the performance vs price comes in to be...

Pretty sure Facebook killed VR when they bought Oculus and pushed out Palmer. Not that I think Palmer could have sustained it, but Meta sure as hell wasn't gonna make it. And didn't.

Like... 20 years ago, Lian Li was awesome. Today.. not sure I'd go there. They compromised their "all aluminum" case principle chasing budget build dollars trying to capitalize on the brand name. They still have some decent products, but it's not a brand name that you can universally associate...

Yeah, seriously considering my next build (which isn't being planned yet) being Linux on bare metal, and keeping a copy of Windows in a hypervisor for those things you just absolutely have to have it for. I've almost went and formatted my current rig, but I find that I'm much to lazy to do...

Yeah, I think these are gonna be priced a bit more than I'd like, but that's kinda the way everything is priced since Covid came and went anymore. Seems most folks are guessing around $600-1k for the Steam Box (depending on SSD size and such), and the Frame going for anywhere from $500 to $1k...

PC/Mobile are almost always crappy mobile ports in a Windows wrapper. There are a few exceptions - but not many great ones to point at. Most of the time the interface is still meant for touchscreen, they just throw the mouse pointer at it