Alphane_Moon

Alphane_Moon, 25 dni temu

!retrocomputing is pretty solid.

Alphane_Moon, miesiąc temu

I don’t live in the US. The price in local currency was close enough to $50.

Alphane_Moon, miesiąc temu

Exactly this.

We continue to be able to make faster chips, both via smaller nodes, but also via advanced packaging and architecture improvements.

But the costs of every new generational increase is rising faster than the % performance improvement.

I am personally hoping this will eventually lead to a culture of total optimization (similar to what we saw in the 90s on both PC and console), but there are likely significant barriers to implementing such a new development culture at scale.

Alphane_Moon, miesiąc temu (edited miesiąc temu)

If not for consoles, AMD would have likely gone bankrupt or become a marginal player.

Considering what’s happening with Intel in the past ~7 year, it would have been game over for x86 PC gaming on the CPU front.

Alphane_Moon, miesiąc temu

There is a lot of content on semiconductor manufacturing (both in context of gaming and beyond) on !hardware, in one way or another anything related to semiconductors does impact both PC and console gaming (since CPUs and GPUs are key).

Alphane_Moon, 5 miesięcy temu

The modular capabilities, I/O ports.

The one thing I don’t like is that it doesn’t support SteamOS and the list of issues with Bazzite does not inspire confidence.

Alphane_Moon, 6 miesięcy temu

Nice one! It’s honestly too bad they didn’t actually call it Putastation or Putabox! Putabox would have been even better IMO. That would have been so hilarious!