Literally none of that goes against what I’ve said.

Doesn’t look bad.

Not really true.

And locally-run translation that utilises AI, as well as AI accessibility features for blind users isn’t nefarious.

People need to actually look into features before they have a stupid and completely reactionary “it says AI therefore evil” response.

Here is literally no different.

And they’re the only people who can easily do it.

Anybody else needs a new motherboard and RAM. And for those people, they’re like “hmmm I can spend $700+ upgrading to Zen5, or I could spend $180 on a 5700X3D, not have to pull my entire PC apart, and get about the same real-world performance because I’ll be GPU bottlenecked anyway.”

Both the PS5 and Steam deck’s CPU architecture are Zen2. So the 5950X is the most modern (Zen3)

I mean, maintaining an instance is a larger job than having a twitter account. I don’t think they’re all that comparable.

If you’re gaming tbh I’d rather go with Zen4X3D or if you really want to, wait for Zen5X3D. Standard Zen5 isn’t really worth it considering the dropping of Zen4 prices IMO

Even with the performance boost of turning up the TDP, you’re looking at pretty similar performance to the X3D chips, and in some games that really love cache, still a decent amount worse

I also just upgraded from a 3600, but I did it to a 5700X3D, because it barely cost anything and only required dropping in a new CPU

They sell everything they put into laptops, in that market they can’t keep up with demand. Similar story for enterprise.

In the DIY desktop market, which this article is about, It’s been instilled into everyone to wait for the X3D chips, by basically every reviewer. And for good reason.

Certainly doesn’t help that:

• a Windows 11 bug made performance look over 10% worse than it actually was on release, which is when all benchmarks are done and opinions are set (E: btw this has been fixed, and the fix also helped older CPUs too)

• AMD decided to massively lower energy usage at the expense of out-of-box performance (I actually love this decision, I’m sick of components getting more and more power-hungry, and I’m sick of a hot stuffy room. Most gaming-focussed reviewers hated it though, which bugged me tbh because they also moan when power usage is high. I think they just like being negative because it drives engagement). At previous-gen TDPs, Zen 5 gains a lot of performance, but that’s not how they are benchmarked.

• the price of Zen 4 has dropped, and the 7800X3D in particular looks compelling to those who might’ve wanted Zen 5.

• most DIY PC builders are PC gamers, and what do we need new CPUs for? Most gamers are more GPU bottlenecked right now, especially as people are moving to 1440p, 1440p ultrawide, or 4K. Add to that the fact that there have been very few good PC game releases this year and of course we’re in a slump.

• the only people who can buy a Zen5 CPU and drop it in their machine easily are Zen4 users, who won’t see a large uplift and likely won’t bother. People with earlier systems are looking at a significant investment - new motherboard and DDR5 RAM, why bother with that when the 5700X3D is such an insanely good value proposition that still won’t be bottlenecked unless you’re running an insanely good GPU?

Also makes a good Vulcan mommy… er I mean Vulcan Starfleet officer

Whinger Spice strikes again

Janeway literally tortured Paris in this episode.

Solitary confinement for 30 days, given deliberately bland food, ordered security personnel not to talk to him, given nothing to stimulate him (such as books), in a tiny cell that he couldn’t leave.

Literally illegal in pretty much all of the developed world, and definitely comes under cruel and unusual punishment as well as psychological torture, as outlined in the Human Rights Act.

It was a completely over-the-top and callous punishment.

Anybody with any nuanced opinion just gets shat on by both

In the UK it works out as 913 USD.

If you think $700 is bad, it’ll be £700 in the UK.

Which is $913.

Also:

• median household income, UK (2022): £32,400 ($42,265)

• median household income, USA (2022): $74,580

A PS5 Pro is 26% of the typical UK household monthly income.

A PS5 Pro is 11% of the typical US household monthly income.

The US pricing is bad. The UK pricing is absolutely insane.

Tbh Max doesn’t feel near as hated as Vettel or Schumacher, and definitely nowhere near as hated as Hamilton.

Huh? If anything Sky has been overly joyous over Max. Seriously, look at even the moment Max won the WDC in 2021, Crofty was shouting with excitement, despite everyone knowing what Masi did was bullshit.

They had Horner in interviews far more than any TP, it felt like every 15 minutes! That’s died down a bit since the allegations against him, though.

Sky definitely talk about British drivers more (duh, they’re the British broadcast), but they’ve never seemed mean to non-british drivers.

Anybody who thinks sky has an awful bias clearly hasn’t watched Dutch or German F1 coverage. Shit, Viggo sports was literally sponsored by Max Verstappen for a while. Think about that for a moment. Sports coverage, sponsored by an athlete from that sport!

I think this is mostly a case of someone thinking the world is against him/his camp, because he isn’t privy to the hate that also gets spewed to others.

For real. I watched him in Trek first, then was blown away by him in Babylon 5. I was like damn he can act, and Trek pretty much only used him for a bit of comedy relief!

The first episode of B5 I saw him in as a guest star I was like I really hope he’s a recurring character, and I was glad to find out that he indeed was.

You can’t scale $700 laptop performance up to 4K 60fps without it being an absolute mess.

You mention the tech being similar, that is true, but upscaling from a, say, 1700p signal to a 4K one is an entirely different beast to 1080p > 4K.

Those “old” games would utterly destroy a $700 gaming laptop. You’d be very lucky indeed to get 60FPS even at low 1080p.

My comment was more about the irrelevancy of consoles once they start getting past the £500 mark, used to be that you’d have a good advantage over a mid-tier PC for about 2 years.

Consoles being vastly better price/perf at the start of the generation and then getting overtaken by PC towards the end has always been the case. Every generation at the start there’s alarmism about consoles killing PC gaming, then mid-to-late gen people act as if console gaming is dead. Neither end up happening.

That said, you’d still struggle to build a $700 PC that outperforms a PS5 Pro. You could get reasonably close maybe if you’re clever with the budget, though.

Where the PC library is huge, add in Emulation and it’s even bigger.

I’m not arguing against PC. I think PC is the better and better value platform. I play on PC exclusively (well my kids have a switch, and I play with them, I guess, but just for me personally it’s all PC or Steam Deck).

I’m just saying there is zero chance of you getting a 4K gaming laptop for $700. $1250+ seems a lot more likely.

Even not running at max, you won’t get anywhere near 4K 60fps on a $700 laptop. A laptop 4050 at 45W (the best you’re going to get at the price) will only achieve 80fps in GTA V at 1080p high (not max). What chance will it stand at 4K? Then remember that that’s an 11 year old game (albeit one that’s had updates).

Even if it did have the horsepower, the 6GB VRAM would be used up immediately and render games unplayable.

I think people are underestimating how expensive gaming laptops have become. The $700 ones are good for eSports and old games. They are not 4K gaming machines.

Then on top of that, the laptops in that price range will have a 250-500GB SSD. Not enough for a reasonable amount of new games.

Using a laptop as a console that you can occasionally unplug and play on the go is a good idea. But if you want 4K you’re gonna be paying a hell of a lot more than $700 lol