This Mad Genius Built His Own Game Streaming Server For Almost Nothing

[SamuelRSmith]

JRPGfan said:

"$0.52 an hour. Let's presume the user games for 4 hours a day on average, and plays daily. That's $757.12 per year. That's the price of a nice used gaming laptop, a decent mid-grade laptop, or a nice DIY desktop. Factor the server cost over multiple years, and you're well into the thousands of dollars, which unlocks even nicer gaming equipment. Heck, for the cost of the MuckBook he could have had a good gaming setup, and a better experience overall. "

- qoute from first comment, on the site the article is from.


And I agree with it.
What is the point of all this, other than allowing a weak laptop to game? (people that play games at work, or school?)
Does it even save that much power compaired to just haveing a beefier laptop+bigger battery?

With input lag and all the other stuff that follows streaming a game..... Im not sure this sort of thing is for me.
Instead of that expensive mac book, he should have just bought a gameing laptop.

or if he only uses his laptop for work related stuff,... he could have bought a desktop pc instead.

Intellectual curiosity is most probably the point of it.