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@KaiserKitty @maija from everyone i've heard that has had on-hands experience with it, the switch 2's screen is actually really good. it's clear that nintendo's priority was going for a higher refresh rate and if they went for an OLED it would have increased the price beyond what they wanted the console to cost.

i do have concerns with the sticks, but you CAN have good sticks without hall effect. that just makes it much easier. i wouldn't be surprised if my sticks break a year or two in though. hopefully they are as easy to swap out as the joycons were.

@beardalaxy @maija I would prefer OLED for longer battery life then 120hz which 5 games will use. I will be 100% waiting for the OLED model which will drop in a. few years
@beardalaxy
I will consider buying one used after a year or so of people beating on them.

If they cock up the launch units again in a way that makes them extremely hackable forever I'll boost my odds.

Otherwise I'd rather pay $3000 and get a new computer that will emulate it

At least then I also have a general purpose compute device.

@KaiserKitty @maija
@maija
I admit I want to buy future proof and am also addicted to laptop portability. $3k still too much but yeah, I'd rather buy an expensive as fuck rig that and emulate any games I want to play than give Nintendo money.

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@Beefki @KaiserKitty @beardalaxy thats fair, i also pay more for laptops. though more here is being the most money i've ever spent on a computer at 500$
@maija
My current laptop cost $1200 and has lasted fairly well for ~6 years. It has taught me that a repairable laptop is more important than specs. If you want good specs and repairable it's gonna cost extra.

It also taught me to not buy nVidia in a laptop. My next rig will be full AMD because it works nicer with Linux and Windows is on an extra shitty path
@Beefki my nvidia dgpu works more or less without issues after some minor tweaking (mostly just setting up stuff for hybrid graphics) but ymmv
i'd pay more for more repairable if i had but i'm quite poor. currently have an hp victus 15 and it seems easy enough to repair and swap out components. not thinkpad tier but no real issues or warranty voiding stick or nonstandard screws or anything. hard to be perfectly simple on a laptop. i hope it lasts well
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