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HoloDust on 13 June 2026
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JEMC said:
HoloDust said:

Currently? Yes, all the good one's are expensive. In the near future? Well, Helix will use pretty much off the shelf AMD APU made just for such purposes, and both them and (I'd say especially) Intel want that market. Due to prices of RAM, classic PC will be several hundreds more than equivalent all in one systems.

Helix? As in Microsoft Helix? The premium console that was rumored to cost like a high-end PC back when RAM and storage prices hadn't gone insane yet? I don't think that's a good example of a viable alternative, unless MSoft decided to lose a ton of money on it.

Yeah, that Helix. It's cost was (is) projected to be far from premium high-end PC, which are currently in ~$1900+ range. Due to unified memory pool such APU/SoC based PC should cost $300 less than equivalent standard PC. You loose upgradeability, but you save some money.