PC gaming is a growing trend, not shrinking
Wait until we see the 2026 stats for hardware sales. 📉
Though I think the supply issues will hurt consoles just as much.
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artyom@piefed.social 3 days ago
The writing on the wall is large and clear. You can still have high-end kit, but you don’t get to put it together from discrete bits. The fastest parts – the CPU, GPU, volatile and non-volatile storage – all get assembled as a single, highly integrated, non-upgradable component.
Honestly I’m shocked desktop PCs have lasted this long.
That being said, PC gaming is a growing trend, not shrinking, so I suspect there will continue to be at least some availability in the future for those components?
Additionally, while Macs are really great at some workloads, they’re still inferior in others to existing desktop machines with dedicated GPUs, and the closest competitor from Apple will still cost at least twice as much.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 days ago
Desktop PCs are so much more powerful amd fast than laptops of the same spec.
High integration on laptops decreases space and cost.
artyom@piefed.social 3 days ago
This isn’t about laptop/desktop but about modular vs. Integrated processors.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 days ago
Integrated processors let laptops be faster without also using power. Strictly speaking it’d be cheaper to just use a faster CPU but battery life is more important than cost so lots of money is spent on integrating processors.
Desktops are still around because they’re upgradable and faster than their laptop brothers.
artyom@piefed.social 3 days ago
…once again, not talking about laptops.
tal@lemmy.today 3 days ago
I’m not sold that modular desktops are going away in general. SoCs have some benefits in terms of power usage, but those are most-substantial on phones and least-substantial on the desktop.
My understanding is that memory may move away from DIMMs to CAMM2 to permit for higher speeds, but that’s still a modular system.
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Yes. That Apple can do these things because their soc is their market deferential. It’s not an over all market direction.
artyom@piefed.social 3 days ago
CAMM has been around for years now but I’ve never seen a single model using them. Even Framework passed on them with their new desktop.
tal@lemmy.today 3 days ago
You don’t need to as long as you’re getting sufficient speeds from non-soldered DIMMs, and desktops are generally still using non-soldered DIMMs.