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From: ant@zimage.comANT (Ant)
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Subject: Re: AMD weighs in on HD versus 4K
Date: Wed, 28 May 2025 21:54:45 -0000 (UTC)
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 28 May 2025 17:01:19 -0000 (UTC), ant@zimage.comANT (Ant)
> wrote:

> >I have old stuff and usually don't upgrade until I need them. For an 
> >example, I finally went to HD in the end of 2014 from my move. My 
> >current computer setups are still 1080 HD, VGA, DVI, 3.5mm analog 
> >speakers, etc. They still work. I'm old school.
> >

> Wait... 3.5mm speaker jacks are old-school now? What are the hip
> digerati using then? And what's wrong with 3.5mm jacks anyway? Don't
> tell me sending stuff to cheapo speakers over Bluetooh is supposed to
> be better somehow now.

Don't people use those fancy HDMI, SDIF, wireless, etc. for audio these 
days? :P


> But, otherwise... you just prove the point. Gamers don't really see
> the need anymore for super-high-end hardware. It doesn't help that a
> surprising amount of people use laptops as their primary device, and a
> surprising number of those STILL have < 1920x1080 resolutions on their
> primary display.

>    [Side note: According to the Steam Hardware Survey, 12.65% of 
>     users surveyed have Nvidia branded laptop GPUs (although not 
>     all laptops use GPUs that self identify as 'laptop' models).
>     That's almost as many as all AMD GPUs combined.]

> AMD knows their audience better than Nvidia. These mega-powerful cards
> with 32GB are not what people need... or really want. Nvidia has
> better marketing, though, and people gravitate towards Nvidia-equipped
> computers because of that.

I still use old onboard and video cards (MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 
(N750TI-2GD5/OC; 2 GB of VRAM)) as my highest end GPU). :P
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