Hardware Discussion Thread

[DJBarry004]

Mine doesn´t lag too much on Minecraft (30 FPS the lowest it has reached) of course with min settings. Can´t tell for YT videos.

[KHg8m3r]

Do you have a budget constraint?

[teh_speleegn_polease]

(09-19-2014, 04:19 AM)KHg8m3r Wrote: Do you have a budget constraint?

No, only a performance constraint, and then just select the cheapest one that satisfies that. I may only use it for like 4 weeks a year or less, so I really want something dirt cheap that can barely do what I need it so.

If it costs over £100 I will probably think before buying it, and maybe decide against it.

EDIT: looked over some low-end laptop prices... Seems I may have underestimated the market. Darn. The only things I can find below £100 are real pieces of shit, used and probably not much better than my mum's current laptop.
I don't get why £1000 gets you a high-end gaming model, but to get a crappy laptop/netbook hybrid with integrated graphics and an i3 CPU at most you need to pay like £250... The difference in performance is far greater than four times.

[NaturalViolence]

teh_speleegn_polease Wrote:I don't get why £1000 gets you a high-end gaming model, but to get a crappy laptop/netbook hybrid with integrated graphics and an i3 CPU at most you need to pay like £250... The difference in performance is far greater than four times.

Because performance doesn't scale linearly with production and R&D costs. This is true of most industries, not just computers production. There is always going to be a certain baseline cost for the parts needed to make everything work. The graph of price vs performance is an asymptote approaching this point.

[Link_to_the_past]

(09-19-2014, 04:23 AM)teh_speleegn_polease Wrote:

(09-19-2014, 04:19 AM)KHg8m3r Wrote: Do you have a budget constraint?

No, only a performance constraint, and then just select the cheapest one that satisfies that. I may only use it for like 4 weeks a year or less, so I really want something dirt cheap that can barely do what I need it so.

If it costs over £100 I will probably think before buying it, and maybe decide against it.

EDIT: looked over some low-end laptop prices... Seems I may have underestimated the market. Darn. The only things I can find below £100 are real pieces of shit, used and probably not much better than my mum's current laptop.
I don't get why £1000 gets you a high-end gaming model, but to get a crappy laptop/netbook hybrid with integrated graphics and an i3 CPU at most you need to pay like £250... The difference in performance is far greater than four times.

That's why for people without unlimited budget the performance/price ratio is quite valuable. Performance is not the only thing that influence prices (there is labor, material costs, etc.). And usually the best ratio is found in products lying around the middle of the pricing, the cheap ones are not cheap enough for what they offer and the high priced ones do not perform as much as their price difference indicates. That's because even cheap products need to have a profit margin and expensive ones are quite difficult to make them justify their cost 100%.

[teh_speleegn_polease]

Yeah... I find this most striking in HDDs: 250GB - $35; 500GB - $40; 1TB - $50; 2TB - $60.

I guess I'll probably pass on the laptop for now.

[NaturalViolence]

A chromebook can be purchased for $200-300. That's about as cheap as they come when buying new. And seeing as how chromebooks use arm cpus (which is the main reason why they're so cheap) they can't run windows.

[DatKid20]

(09-19-2014, 07:52 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: A chromebook can be purchased for $200-300. That's about as cheap as they come when buying new. And seeing as how chromebooks use arm cpus (which is the main reason why they're so cheap) they can't run windows.

Most Chromebooks don't run ARM CPUs. In fact until recently Samsung was the only one with a ARM Chromebook.

[NaturalViolence]

I'll be damned. You're right. I always assumed that they used arm cpus since they ran chrome OS.

This is a viable option for him then. Also tablets and netbooks are great for flights.

[AnyOldName3]

If you want something really cheap that isn't total crap, you're going to have to look on eBay. Occasionally something will go for way less than it's worth.