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Cost. While fiber has gotten a lot cheaper, it still costs a lot more than copper. Not so much the fiber itself (though it does cost more) but the transceivers. For a real basic price check, we can look at a Fiberstore 100gig QSFP module. That is 100gbits over 4 lanes of data, send and receive...

It's not bad these days. They still could and hopefully will improve it further, but as it stands it works pretty well. You can easily toggle it on and off, when it is on Windows applies corrections for SDR programs when HDR is on so they look right, and you just set the brightness with a slider...

Don't worry about it too much. Like many things you can fall down a rabbit hole and start to become overly concerned with specs on things and getting "the best" :). If you want an easy metric then get a UL listed one, with a lower voltage, higher joule rating, from a good brand. Tripplite and...

Heat and driving hardware. The more dense you pack it, the harder it is to cool. Not impossible, but it is an issue you have to think about. Then there's the drivers, the things that actually set the brightness of the individual LEDs. They have to be made smaller and more responsive to deal with...

Ya I've had no issues with it, at home or at work. At home I have it on my laptop. I didn't bother to get the SED feature working, so it is just software encryption. At work I've got it to work with SED a few times, but as I said, it is more difficult than it should be to get that to work, and...

I do wish that drive-based encryption was easier to make work. I don't know if MS, the drive manufacturers, or both need to change things but it DOES work right now, I've set it up, but it is harder than it should be and most people will end up doing it in software. As you say, not a big deal...

You don't need to do that, a secure erase command (both SATA and nVME support it) will fully blank the disk, beyond any recovery. Ok I mean I suppose intelligence agencies could theoretically have a way to recover data, but the commercial data recovery companies can't. It works excellent...

I really wonder how much of that is just legacy in engines and could be improved, and how much is just kinda inherently how games work. It seems like being single-core bound has been an issue in all kind of game engines, and of course we've had multi-core CPUs for a long time. It isn't like...

I dunno, it may not improve for a bit, but I also wouldn't count it out. There's been a lot of improvements in the TVs in a very short time. I'm sticking with my PG32UQX, but I'm eagerly looking forward to seeing what the next gen of OLEDs look like.

Crap like that drives me crazy. I'm not sure why an accurate EOTF is so hard. Maybe it really does require extensive software development or hardware support, but I know devices can do it. The Sony A95L and the ASUS PG32UQX both have bang on EOTF tracking. I think it is part of why I like the...

I mean, it wouldn't surprise me if they do. nVidia has been beating the "AI" drum since before the marketing buzzword became "AI". They've been working on and pushing machine learning for a long time now. Well these days, it is paying off in spades so no surprise they'd continue on that path.

And to be fair, I think that's a legit way to do games. I can appreciate a game that is really big and open, but kinda shallow and a "make your own fun exploring and gathering" situation, just like I can appreciate a game that is a very tight, curated, focused, experience. We just don't have...

Doesn't have to be as powerful as nVidia to still be a nice step forward. The thing is, the better the RT AMD has, the more games that'll implement RT. Right now RT is pretty much a PC-only, nVidia-only feature. Ya you CAN use it on other stuff, but performance is often not good enough. Makes...

True, but they make it difficult, it pushes it pretty hard... kinda like Windows these days. You don't have to use a MS account, I don't, they just make it a PITA not to. I don't love it, I'm not trying to defend it as a good thing, but I don't see why it is a dealbreaker when it really isn't on...

Nah man, there were LOTS of people (well, angry Internet nerds) who were upset. I saw more than a few posts here of "I'm never switching off 7, 10 sucks, MS sucks, your face sucks!" kind of thing. Has happened with every version of Windows I've ever seen. Nerds rage that the new one sucks, they...