Excessively patient. I've noticed there's basically a 50/50 chance of any game I find interesting showing up for free on Epic eventually, so I mean, fine, I'll wait a couple of years to save $60. Why pay for something that'll eventually be given to you, paid for by some vulture capitalist's dragon horde?
I take some of their money, get a free game: win/win.
...at this point, I'm pretty sure my Epic games library is way bigger than my Steam library, simply from the 3-5 free games a month that Epic tosses at you, of which like 1/3rd are actually pretty good.
Yeah the first run backfill was noisy, but I'm inclined to leave it there unless it gets just way too loud. If it starts making the feed just noise and junk it'll get yanked.
My immediate reaction is 'because they don't have to be'. Laptops are very very bright these days because the expectation you'll be using them outside and thus need to be able to overwhelm the sun.
Desktop monitors don't have to/aren't used like that, and so there's no reason to have them be as bright.
Also, the brighter the monitor the more color will start deviating from being completely accurate, and something like a studio display is aimed at creators who want it to be perfectly accurate, so that's likely another part of it.
I don't think I'd buy an Apple monitor mostly due to them being priced in a way that really makes no sense: for what your wife is doing I'd look at the ASUS ProArt monitors. They're focused on accuracy and creator workflows, come calibrated, and for the price difference you could buy three or four of them instead....
$30 to not have to deal with Windows 11 for another year feels like the deal of the century.
I love how they're like 'but you won't get new features!'. They may have still not figured out that nobody cares about 'new features' being stuffed into the OS, but I guess you can't have everything.
100% Fortnite, since I'm too cheap to buy games or pay for yet another subscription service these days.
(Especially since about half of anything I've wanted off Gamepass has shown up for free on Epic Games a couple of months later or has been absolute slop - looking at you, Starfield.)
This is a luxury brand staple: it engenders loyalty because it makes the whales "better".
You can't buy certain luxury bags or watches or cars or whatever unless you have spent a giant pile of money on crap you may or may not want as the price of being allowed the special sales.
I'm going to get downvoted to hell for this but uh, I usually tell clients Squarespace is what they want these days.
Self-hosting something like Wordpress or Ghost or Drupal or Joomla or whatever CMS you care to name costs time: you have to patch it, back it up, and do a lot of babysitting to keep it up and secure and running. It's very much not a ship-and-forget - really, nothing selfhosting is.
I'm very firmly of the opinion that small business people should be focused on their business, not their email or website or whatever, because any time you spend fighting your tech stack is time you could have been actually making money. It's all a cost, it just depends if you value $20 a month or your time more.
If I had someone come to me asking to setup this stuff for their business, I'd absolutely tell them to use gSuite for email, file sharing, documents, and such and Squarespace for the website and then not worry about shit, because they're both reliable and do what they say on the tin.
too high TDP, using above the MAX rate of 250 Watt
Agreed. Intel's design philosophy seems to be 'space heater that does math' for some reason. That's been true since at least 10th gen, if not before then. I don't know if it's just chasing benchmark wins at any cost, or if they're firmly of the opinion that hot and loud is fine as long as it's fast and no customers will care - which I don't really think is true anymore - or what, but they've certainly invested heavily in CPUs that push the literal limits of physics while trying to cool them.
Intel always had the advantage of superior production
That really stopped being true in the Skylake era when TSMC leapfrogged them and Intel was doing their 14nm++++++++ dance. I mean they did a shockingly good job of keeping that node relevant and competitive, but the were really only relevant and competitive on it until AMD caught up and exceeded their IPC with Ryzen 3000.
about the same price
Yeah, if gaming is your use case there's exactly zero Intel products you should even be considering. There's nothing that's remotely competitive with a 7800x3d, and hell, for most people and games, even a 5800x3d is overkill.
And of course, those are both last-gen parts, so that's about to get even worse with the 9800x3d.
For productivity, I guess if you're mandated to use Intel or Intel cpus are the only validated ones it's a choice. But 'at the same price' is the problem: there's no case where I'd want to buy Intel over AMD if they cost the same and perform similarly, if for no other reason than I won't need something stupid like a 360mm AIO to cool the damn thing.
Lenovo is, outside of their really cheap consumer options - like, the $500-and-under options - are pretty solid.
But yeah build quality is one reason when I roll my eyes at the 'haha stupid buying apple! apple tax! lol ripped off!' crowd: I mean maybe, but as soon as you pick up a Macbook whatever it's immediately obvious that you're getting something for what you're paying, and not some bendy flexy piece of plastic crap that will maybe physically survive the warranty period, but not much more.
Excessively patient. I've noticed there's basically a 50/50 chance of any game I find interesting showing up for free on Epic eventually, so I mean, fine, I'll wait a couple of years to save $60. Why pay for something that'll eventually be given to you, paid for by some vulture capitalist's dragon horde?
I take some of their money, get a free game: win/win.
...at this point, I'm pretty sure my Epic games library is way bigger than my Steam library, simply from the 3-5 free games a month that Epic tosses at you, of which like 1/3rd are actually pretty good.