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JEMC said:

Captain_Yuri said:

Impressive numbers. PC sales continues to be crazy!

Yeah, even without the Apple ones, those are great numbers all around. The whole COVID mayhem and the release of new hardware have had a huge impact on the market. We'll see how long it lasts, hopefully not for too long.

Captain_Yuri said:

Sure took them long enough jeez! Although the gamepass version still has a lot of issues.

I hope the article's guessis is right and the improvements are based on the Windows Store version, not the GamePass one.

It helps that people (And businesses) were hanging onto old systems for longer, but we sorta' reached that point where Core 2/1st and 2nd gen Core are starting to become extremely antiquated even for basic tasks as even the Internet is becoming more system demanding with video conferences and the like becoming very popular that rely on modern codecs that aren't hardware accelerated on older devices. (I.E. H265)

Plus the move to 4k in general.

It does mean that once this upgrade cycle is done and dusted the PC market may do another slump for awhile. Boom and Bust.

Chazore said:

Captain_Yuri said:

Finally, the future of PC monitors are showing signs of not being terrible. Gonna be expensive still I'd imagine but still great.

One of the most urgh thing I hate about IPS is the panel lottery you gotta deal with when it comes to backlight bleed. I have had some horrible backlight bleeds where I had to return it and get a different one. OLED doesn't have that problem of course and MicroLED shouldn't either.

Gimme 1440p OLED, thin borders and no crushed blacks and

Thought about a high refresh rate VA?

Last edited by Pemalite - on 13 April 2021