| Adinnieken said: Yes, but what you've said has absolutely nothing to do with the statement he made. |
It has everything to do with it, but I suspect you are being willfully obtuse. He argues first that there probably isn't really a 50% difference in performance, and then argues that it doesn't matter even if there is. If his point is the latter, why not just leave it at, "This obsession with specs is ridiculous"? Taken together, it is a muddled message that can easily be mistaken for defense forcing.
There are normal, mature adults who are interested in system specs, and someone who writes for a tech blog of all things should understand that. While we're at it, he should probably also understand we aren't talking about graphics or mere "spectacle" here, but also fundamental things that actually do affect the gaming experience like framerate performance and load times, and also that computing performance isn't really subjective. It's fine that he doesn't find these things to be worth discussing, but then he should probably stop discussing them (or, rather, handwaving them away as "abstract" when they are anything but) and look for another line of work.
