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Better to Skip a Year for Hardware Upgrades?

18 points| ekianjo | 6 days ago |boilingsteam.com

24 comments

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hackeman300|3 days ago

>These aren’t the actions of early adopters—they’re the moves of a community that’s decided it’s not worth it at the moment.

These aren't the words of a human – they're the words of an LLM

eschatology|3 days ago

These ai authorship accusations are now everywhere and it's getting really annoying.

It just distracts the discussion away and adds nothing.

InitialLastName|3 days ago

I don't know, it would take quite a subtle prompt to get an LLM to write the sub-edited slop in the latter part of the article:

> We are now again in a new inflatory phase, and this time the difference is that it does not only impact GPUs, but almost everything really important, like RAM and NVME storage.

> But there’s also something new on the software side. The advent of new technologies like DLSS, FSR, and more recently Framegen have also changed the performance equation a bit.

> Finally, the games themselves are not pushing the enveloppe [sic] as much as they used to.

> but that’s not obvious that the visual outcomes are far better.

> We have entered in the marginal progress zone.

Greduan|3 days ago

Sounds exactly like it yeah.

messe|3 days ago

Nice en—dash.

pocksuppet|3 days ago

Who was upgrading on a yearly schedule?

pinkmuffinere|3 days ago

As somebody who only buys used electronics, I am worried that this means the used-electronics-prices are going to start rising closer to a more accurate (and more expensive) level. Bad for me, but probably good for allocation of resources.

tokai|3 days ago

55 answers to that poll, with no idea of if or how it has changed from last year. I do believe that many people are postponing upgrades, but those poll results are not worst spending that many words on.

yomismoaqui|3 days ago

I updated my laptop this past December for fear of the RAM price hike.

Today I checked its price on the web I bought it and it was almost 300€ more.

mjorgers|3 days ago

Am I the only one who hasn’t felt the need to upgrade in _way_ more than just one year? I still have an old XPS 15 9560 (pushing 10 years!!!) running Ubuntu which is perfectly usable. I upgraded the ram (32Gb) and the battery, and I still consider it to be totally usable for most day to day tasks. Development, docker containers, browsing the web with an unhealthy number of tabs open. What more do I need?

0_____0|3 days ago

Same. My daily driver is a high spec Dell laptop from 2018. I do CAD work on it and it's approximately fine. I upgraded the memory last year and I've had to repaste the heatsink and replace the battery, but I still can't justify getting a new machine given that it does everything I actually need flawlessly.

hotsauceror|3 days ago

Agreed. Main box is 10+ years i5-4770K, I think. 16 GB RAM, GTX 1080. Runs Debian Trixie + KDE, Spotify, VS Code, docker, Steam, etc just fine.