@allison @xianc78 sometimes they're trying to yeet weird stock nobody wants and you can get a deal on it. i got this bravo 17 because ... i dunno, they configured the build weird and everyone hated it.

@allison @xianc78 its AMD/AMD, but they put in 8gb RAM (supposed to be 16 stock, but 64 max), so ended up with a ryzen 7 with many cores for ~1,000. people keep giving me shit for a mobile GPU but like. 5500M is not a bad card it's just not a thousand dollar bitcoin miner.

@allison @xianc78 i highly doubt i could build a desktop for this price considering how fucked the GPU market is, and a good ryzen alone is like 300-400$

@icedquinn @allison Things are probably going to get better now that processors dedicated to crypto mining are a thing.

@xianc78 @allison we will be able to paly gaems again?

@icedquinn @allison Unless that shitty California law banning gaming PCs becomes a federal law.

@xianc78 @allison what if we just ban california

@icedquinn @xianc78 @allison Real Socialism: now you don't have the luxury of having a bling bling GPU when everyone has an IGPU. You will play games on the IGPU like I did as a kid and you will be happy.

@PhenomX6 @icedquinn @xianc78 No loss for me, as long as said iGPU supports Freesync (wait, isn't this where I already am?)

@PhenomX6 @allison @xianc78 apus are pretty good now though. this runs one of those weird setups where the vega and radeon trade off jobs.

@icedquinn @xianc78 @allison It's not like I play games made after 2015 anyhow.

@PhenomX6 @allison @xianc78 freesync is so silky smooth

i don't use my big 30" but it has freesync. it ghosts, but the framerate is good. using these monitors without it is like oh no stutter

@icedquinn @xianc78 graphics cards are kind of a meme anyway so I can vibe with it

@allison @icedquinn My Dad technically isn't a boomer. (He's a few years off from the official cut off)

@xianc78 @icedquinn mine is straight on the border of boomer and genx