NVIDIA Prepping Price Cuts On High-End GeForce RTX 30 Series Graphics Cards: 3090 Ti Drops To $1500 US, 3090 To $1300 US, 3080 Ti To $1099 US, 3080 Under $800 US
I have personally seen retail go much lower than those prices already but it is great to see official price cuts below MSRP after almost 2 years of getting shat on.
Samsung Launches Its Fastest GDDR6 Memory Yet! 24 Gbps Speeds For Next-Gen AMD & NVIDIA GPUs
M2 MacBook Air Review - Needs More Air
Higher wattage + No Fans = Thermal Throttles when pushed. When pushing only CPU, thermal throttles in 6 minutes while both CPU + GPU, in 4 minutes. It also has the same SSD problem as M2 Pro where if you get the base 256GB model, it's half as slow as M1 Macbook Air because M2 has 1 nand 256gb chip vs M1 has 2 128gb nand chips. And with only 8GB of ram in the base model, it will need to use the Swap spaces on the SSD after running a few apps. All for $1200 vs $1000 for M1.
I personally never understood the purpose of spending so much on essentially a facebook machine. Sure it's thin and light and has good battery and speakers but despite having a good CPU/GPU, it's practically useless outside of using it for casual use. And once you upgrade it to 16GB of ram and 512GB of storage... You may as well spend a little extra and get the 14 inch version with the Mini-LED screen, more CPU/GPU cores and etc.
PC Specs: CPU: 7800X3D || GPU: Strix 4090 || RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 || Main SSD: WD 2TB SN850
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