You can afford to:
- Pay 3x more for food
- Pay 3x more for transportation
- Pay 3x more for entertainment
Pick two
PC shipments fall 20.1 percent in “sharpest decline” since Q1 2023
Submitted 3 weeks ago by 
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Nouvellalia@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
echodot@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Because it’s a choice between paying my mortgage and a gaming PC. It’s not really a hard choice. I’ve got a steam deck anyway and while it’s true that it’s got the graphical processing capacity of the gnats testicle it’s better than paying 40x the odd for some ram.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
as was designed.
they don’t want you to own your hardware.
they want an excuse to stop manufacturing hardware so they can replace it with cloud computing. why make $500 once when they can make $5000 a year from you until you die.
mrnngglry@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
No shit. You make PCs at lower specs at a higher price for the consumer, this is what you get.
Long-term, this is what the tech industry wants. Sell the best hardware to data centers and force consumers to rely on cloud compute via a subscription model.
It’s bleak.