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I was considering a Galaxy Tab for the included stylus and OLED screen for media consumption. This upgrade for the new Air really isn’t exciting me a whole lot considering what I can get with the Galaxy, but I do agree with you on I just prefer the feel of iOS to Android, and I have used both...

I'm due to upgrade my old iPad Air 2, but given my use case, I'm honestly leaning toward a Galaxy Tab at this point, despite my satisfaction with my iPhone. Just wondering if I want to do the whole two-ecosystems thing, but I just think the Galaxy Tab as more value out of the box for what I...

I thought it was a creative ad and people are overreacting, but that's just me. People are saying "how can they destroy those beautiful creative tools", but like guys, they're mass produced in a factory, you can get more. They didn't crush a one of a kind Stradivarius violin.

I never said the Deck was selling better than a Switch. I never even made that suggestion. I do think it's sold well under the circumstances it was launched, in an emerging market. Valve seems to agree, because they've already said they will be making a Deck 2, which they would not be doing...

Nintendo also has decades of experience creating and marketing console systems and video games with a devoted following built up over many years. Valve created a device for a market which, outside of a few niche players, basically didn’t exist, and when it did consisted of devices from small...

The Steam Deck has not been a poor seller, I’m not sure who told you that. They’ve sold millions of Decks and proved the viability of handheld PC gaming in the process. I have one and I love it. It’s a product designed by gamers who understood their target customer. The Ally has some nice...

AMD (and Nvidia) is what happens when you let an engineer run a technology company. Intel is what happens when you let a finance person run a technology company.

It doesn’t mean we need to give up Steam at all. I buy games on Steam that STILL require another launcher to open up when I click to play it, which is wholly unnecessary, as would be the creation of an additional account to play a game I’ve already bought on Steam.

Can we just go back to not having a account and launcher for every single piece of software? I'm sick and tired of having accounts and launchers all over the place. Can't I just install something and use it like a normal person?

Intel needs to develop competitive GPUs as a matter of survival at this point, so I would say the chance that Battlemage and Celestial are cancelled is basically zero. A delay is believable, but not a cancellation.

Unfortunately there isn't much in terms of choice for most people. Linux doesn't run everything most people need to run and requires more computer literacy. I'm running Windows 11 myself. If it were up to me, I'd still be on 7, but the support is gone. In any case, shout out to Lakados for...

Gamers want AMD to lower their prices so Nvidia lowers theirs, and then they buy Nvidia. AMD knows this and will likely just continue with their "10% less than Nvidia" pricing strategy.

People are switching because they have to, no necessarily because they want to. I’d wager you’d still have a solid number of people who will tell you they’d still be on 7 if it still received security and vulnerability updates.

I'm actually still using the one I bought back in 2002 believe it or not. Got my money's worth out of that purchase.

Remember back in the day when we used antivirus programs to hunt down and eliminate spyware that were tracking our every move and sending data back to the mothership, completely invading our privacy? And then Microsoft saw that spyware and decided to turn it into an operating system?

But are they actually selling the Claw, or is it sitting on store shelves collecting dust? In GN’s review, Steve says he was the only one at the store in Taiwan that asked for one, and the clerk questioned why he wanted to buy it. The kind of customer for the Claw will tend to be computer...

It’s interesting that, just a short time ago, you have EVGA, arguably Nvidia’s best partner in terms of the product they made and no doubt selling well, walk away from a relationship with Nvidia that essentially defined their identity as a company, citing that Nvidia was increasingly difficult...

Underperforming sales of AMD GPUs, not underperforming AMD GPUs. MSI doesn’t care how the GPU performs, they care how it sells. Which brings me to your second point, because the Claw is an absolute piece of crap that isn’t selling well, and the only reason why I can think MSI went with Intel...

Bonus points if they subcontracted it to Volkswagen.

100% it’s the CPU. It looks like Intel has a significant advantage over AMD Ryzen in this software. My 7900XTX paired with my 5800x3D only managed 71409, which is far lower compared to people in this thread running Intel CPUs but slower GPUs.

+1 on this. If they're abandoning it, why not just put it out as freeware at that point and let the fans enjoy it? My buddy and I still bust out StarCraft from time to time like we did back at high school LAN parties for a few laughs, and if you don't already own it, you can get the base game...

AMD is adopting a “Nvidia price -10%” pricing model these days. Not exactly a smashing deal in most cases compared to what you could get in previous generations, especially because they have to discount because they’re behind in frame generation, frame smoothing, and RT processing. The 3080...

I’ll say there is little chance it launches at the 4090 price. I would expect at least $1800, because Nvidia knows they can get that for it. The consumer told them they could.

Yes, crypto led to the initial run up, but Nvidia is still testing the waters to see what gamers are willing to pay, and gamers lined up to buy the $1600 4090, so they have their answer. 4080 Super, which is functionally almost identical to the 4080 anyway when benchmarked, is $1000, still a...

I have no doubt this is also a contributing factor, but the bottom line is that they will charge what the market will bear. As long as market participants signal they will pay more, companies will charge more, which is why the rest of consumers are annoyed with “how other people spend their...

The 3080 had an MSRP of $699. The 4080 launched two years later with an MSRP of $1199. That’s a sharp increase in 80-series cards in a single generation. Why do you think that is? Because the market told Nvidia they were fine paying more, or at least a segment did and Nvidia decided to test...

I’m not talking about halo cards. The pricing of the entire GPU stack has been rising, and the more people show a willingness to spend excessive amounts of money on the cards, the more companies know they can charge. That’s why gamers are annoyed. It’s not about what others want to do with...

I don't think it's that as much as the fact that others showing a willingness to spend insane amounts of money on a good video card means the rest of us have to as well when we want to upgrade.

But can it run Crysis?

For what it's worth, for the price I was going to have to pay to upgrade my 1070Ti, 12GB VRAM was a non-starter for me. I keep my cards typically a little longer than you do, so my choices became 7900XT, XTX, 4080, or 4090. I was able to get a Lenovo Y32P monitor and a 7900XTX on sale for a...

GeForce 256 was when the term "GPU" was first introduced by Nvidia. Yes, it was really more a marketing thing than anything else, but that was the card first given that description.

No whine on my 7900XTX, running on an MSI 850W. Some people had their coil whine problems solved by running three separate cables to the card from the PSU by the way.

You said you don't care about DLSS or RT but are concerned about the size of the frame buffer, in which case I'd go with the 7900 GRE and overclock the VRAM or look for a 7900 XT on sale. Also, if your upgrade cycle is 1-3 years, you're probably going to upgrade to a significantly better RT...

No, women and men do not have the same muscle building potential, and it’s not even close. Watch the women's fitness division at any bodybuilding competition and you’ll see what’s essentially the maximum muscle building potential of a woman, bearing in mind that the competitors have leaned out...

Are you undervolting or OCing at all? Because I could not get away with any undervolting on my 7900XTX and maintain stability. I reverted to default and I’ve not had a single crash since.

Sorry, allow me to clarify what I’m saying. There is racism, sexism, etc, that exists in the world, I’m not saying that there isn’t. Unfortunately, DEI has actually become a catalyst for identity politics by dividing people by race and gender which has promoted division, racism, misogyny, and...

DEI is a solution desperately trying to find a problem that simply doesn’t exist, but in spite of that, activists have achieved a stunning level of elite capture and set off a bizarre moral panic. Like all moral panics, people will ignore the evidence in front of their own faces if it...

Non-white dudes have to fight to prove they exist in the video game industry? Clearly she’s never been to Asia, just like the Xbox. Props to Microsoft for hiring a person as their head of global marketing who appears to be blissfully unaware that their two primary competitors are headquartered...

"But muh subs" - Wall Street

Lol, I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who runs 3DMark2001SE when I upgrade for the lulz. It was the first benchmarking software I used, so it's always funny to see how things have changed, especially in areas where I remember it tanking performance on my old TNT2. Interesting results in...