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brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

I’m surprised people think $1,100 is high, even outside the current environment.

Same with the $500 Commodore phone.

The dollar has inflated. Technology is expensive. I think cheap junk has desensitized folks to that, but you pay an externalized cost for that.

And of course salaries haven’t gone up so anyone can actually afford it, but… that’s a distinctly separate problem. They should have, as corporate revenue and profit per worker has certainly gone up.

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jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Hol, hol, hol up… Commodore Phone? 🤔

Huh, I’ll be damned!

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FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

I’m surprised people think $1,100 is expensive for a gaming PC, even outside the crazy memory market now.

$1100 isn’t expensive for a gaming PC. It is, however, expensive for this gaming PC because it’s so incredibly underpowered and non upgradeable that it may as well not even be called a gaming PC. This thing struggles hard to hit playable framerates in current gen games. Even at 720p they’re struggling to hit 30fps. For “next gen” games it’s basically going to just be left in the dark, won’t even be able to play them. The memory bandwidth is terrible, the 8GB VRAM is terrible, the CPU is terrible, and the GPU is literally scraping the bottom of the barrel.

At this exorbitant price it’s DOA. It’ll no doubt sell out because of the steam fangirls buying anything valve throws at them, but they’ll be producing so few of this thing that selling out will mean nothing. They should have cancelled this as soon as they couldn’t launch it for $500.

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