Comment on Where in the world is laptop gaming the most popular?

kadu@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• CorrodedCranium@leminal.space ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thank you for responding. This is the kind of information I was after.

  How do you find the used market in Brazil?

  Is there a market for buying traditional office PCs and adding a graphics card like there is here in the US?

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• someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m not sure I follow this, desktops are generally cheaper. And if a part is bad you can replace just that part, you have better cooling so things should last longer, and you can buy and sell parts. So both short and long term it should be cheaper.

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  • meekah@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think op’s argument is that there is a chance of fucking up building a desktop and having wasted money. Just buying a laptop is a safe route, even if its not necessarily the cheapest.

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    • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah I guess but most people buy them prebuilt. Still cheaper.

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      • meekah@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        hmm fair point

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• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  if you have to pay 20x the minimum wage for a computer,

  Hourly? Daily?

  In America that would be: 150 or 1,200

  But that’s gross, I don’t know how different taxes are.

  But I thought prices were high due to tarrifs? Surely some basic parts could be bought without tarrifs. Especially just the savings of being able to hook up to any TV as a monitor.

  It makes it easier to upgrade slowly overtime to, which helps with the tariffs.

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  • agitated_judge@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Minimum wage in Brazil is around $280. So we’re probably talking about monthly wages here.

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