vivster said:
generic-user-1 said:
vivster said:
I'm puking at how they try to sell this as a revolution. There are literally dozens of home computers in that size. |
but the most are a bit bigger and dont have a i5 inside. its a fine toy, but its just not usefull. u cant play most games well because of the gpu and if u just wanna work with it, its way to expensiv and overpowered. the i5 has more power than the ps4 cpu and is used in mid level gaming pcs(if they pick a good i5 and not one from the lowest end).
there is just no market for this kind of minipc.(u can buy a gaming netbook for the price, with a lot more power)
Don't let the Name i5 fool you, it's just a Dualcore with Hyperthreading just like the i3, the latter is only lacking any turbo boost. Also, that i5 only comes with a base clock of merely 1.3 Ghz due to the relatively powerful graphics core while the i3 with a weaker graphics part has a base clock of 1.7 Ghz (although without any turbo)
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It's not hard to just put more hardware into a thing. But the price for this is just ridiculous. What makes it even worse is that the usecase for those kinds of PCs don't warrant high power. Nothing you will do with those will require an i5, probably not even an i3.
Duping people while falsely claiming innovation makes this one of the worst things.
Also I'm pretty sure an i3 already easily beats the PS4 CPU in gaming ;)
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Really depends if the programm or game runs well on multiple cores. You can't simply compare Desktop i3s with those having the U Prefix, since quite some funtions had to be cut out to achieve such a low TDP. If the programm can make use of more than 4 cores the processor in the consoles should beat the i3.
And yeah, there is not much out there right now what can actually use the additional Power compared to Raspberry Pi or comarable Computer.
