Recent content by PiranhaTech

It has been done. There's laptop makers that target emergency crew (the Panasonic Toughbook is an example). I got to try one, and damn. Some of those laptops are expensive and heavy, but you can feel the quality. The hinges are solid, the keyboard was amazing, as with the trackpad. The...

It depends on the features. If the laptop came with bloatware and will fall apart, not being much different than a $450 Walmart laptop, no. If it's Made in the USA and you are charging more for it, you have to make it a premium product. Gibson is starting to have trouble with this. Gibson's...

ASRock is said to be a good brand. They used to be part of ASUS as a budget brand, then ASRock went into Pegatron, which got spun off into its own company with ASUS being a major shareholder of Pegatron... whew...

Sometimes it's obvious like Energizer in the original version of Alan Wake. Kind-of amusing. Billboards also aren't bad. I just don't want the YouTube situation where "loading ad..." actually crashes and then you cannot access your content. Also, ads that stop the action shouldn't be in a...

This is a good point. Hopefully they can keep out activist investors from Nvidia

I'm not surprised. The performance increase for most games will be a modest bump in this generation, plus GPUs are very overpriced. Many seasoned PC builders are waiting a while to see where GPU prices go, especially with Intel Arc's improvements. The strategy is very legit. The main reason why...

Some of those might be "hindsight is 20/20". Larrabee was seen as kind-of bad, though it was smart of Intel to at least research it. Intel's GPU really didn't take off until they hired Raja Koduri in November 2017. Arc is doing pretty well. It's hard to get GPUs up to that level in the time...

I hope this means prices will start lowering, as with TDP

Sounds good. 480p and 720p are nice mostly because of Comcast limits, which I'm more likely to hit because I run videos in the background while working.

This reminds me of a video that LinusTechTips did. "What? The most popular motherboard is a $100 one? The average gamer doesn't want to pay $500 for a motherboard?!" Every review site seems to review only $200-500 ones

I have the feeling that the ones buying mid-tier GPUs are waiting for another round of price drops if they have a working GPU

If AMD doesn't announce layoffs, I'm learning for this. Lisa Su has done an amazing job and I love her as a spokeswoman. When she speaks, she just radiates intelligence AMD also was brought from a really low position to a pretty good one. They got Intel to panic. Ryzen also probably kept Sony...

Some labels like Nuclear Blast offer 24/44 albums but not 24/96. I still hear the difference in 24/44. It's sometimes only $4 more for the 24-bit and I have the storage, and I do this for my favorite bands like Avantasia. I'll pay the $4 to help me get the better version regardless of the...

Basically the argument is that you don't hear the difference between 16-bit audio and 24-bit audio. There's signs that a lot of the arguments are copy/pasted from other people. Maybe they see it as an easy way to troll. Maybe several people want a justification to avoid replacing their...

Don't get me started about their arguments against 24-bit audio