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No one is gonna chase it when AI will buy almost identical product at 5x the cost

Didn't he leave like 3 years ago?

You are assuming we will still have consumer cards.

I'm still a naysayer. Full blown 100% RT is still not real-time. What you are seeing now are some mud puddle reflections and shiny chrome on guns pasted on top of a rasterized scene. The only full RT-calculated games right now are tech demos and ports of ancient titles.

You can thank California and AB 1043. Wait until you have to upload a picture of your driver's license before your internet router will work. It's gonna really play havoc with Linux. I hope this gets struck down this fall - the law is well intentioned, but written so poorly it functionally...

I was gonna point to the Switch as a lower cost console, but even that is $450 now.

I dunno about that. There's an awful lot of sub $500 PCs out there. I mean, that stretches all the way to sub $200, and you can even find some stuff under $100 (new) that will run Windows. If you are talking about a gaming PC though (which I will loosely define as a PC with socketed CPU, RAM...

Kinda depends really... if the RAM/GPU prices don't come back down, we won't have many future PCs that compare vs consoles... Of course console price will be affected as well, but they can manage it a bit better, and subsidize hardware pricing if they really want to.

Nothing nVidia does anymore is "value priced"

Jeez when did routers become that expensive?

what? That's like saying you aren't part of the economy if you're self employed.

I don't run it on my 4K monitors either, but those are standard 16:9; it would be nice to have on an ultrawide.

Just because you think it's mediocre, or it's putout by an indie, doesn't change sales figures. Which I would say correlate fairly strongly to "appeal" Unless you were just talking about "appeals to MadMummy76"

That's how they hook you.

Was kinda disappointed the Alienware didn't have any sort of PIP/Split Screen for an ultrawide. Wife couldn't get Windows Snap to do what she wanted with games, and ended up with another monitor to the side of an ultrawide...

I'm so tempted to snag one of these OLEDs that are on sale, but haven't done so for myself. I got my wife the Alienware 34" curved ultrawide, and it looks sharp, but not enough to make me jump on it yet.

You have a good point about Microsoft products in particular, but... most popular Linux distros have open source apps that do everything that Office supplies. It just lacks the licensing for full cross-compatibility. Often available to be pre-installed - Mint, for example, can be installed with...

Steam Deck says hi. You could easily never have to fuss with Linux directly on it at all if you just wanted to use it as a handheld. Valve has done a good job with SteamOS and keeping it focused. So I realize you are particularly aiming at laptops - just saying there's nothing, apart from Valve...

And money. Start charging $70+ for new releases and people stop buying them ... imagine that.

That's a very comprehensive benchmark suite.