ObscureEmpyreThis right here. This is what recently prompted me to take up retro gaming for the time being. I recently dug out my old N64 and PS2, and I’ve been having a blast with them. Although I needed to buy an up-converter since 240p blown up to the size TV I have looks like hot garbage, it’s a no-headache experience. Z690, Alder Lake, and DDR5 have seriously hampered by desire to mess with new PC tech until I’m convinced it’s mature. Honestly, I don’t know why consumer-grade chips need an annual new model release. I’d much rather see a new release every 3-5 years and know that the time was taken to perfect it as much as possible, and deliver quite an uplift in performance.
A blast from the past my friend, eh? :) Nice!
You're writing from the very depth of my soul regarding this issue, or rather said situation we're in. And the answer is simple, stake/share/stock-holders. This "business-model" is running everything down the drain, everything. Things aren't being made for people for a few decades now, but for earnings only.
I was so frustrated, when I purchased Fold 3 a year ago, due to fact I've had Fold 2 and the upgrade was non-existent. ["water resistance and a front facing camera under main display under an ugly grid with newer SoC, and that's that]. When I saw presentation of Fold 4 this year, I wasn't sure whether I'm suppose to laugh, or cry.
We're literally paying for non-existent upgrades for most of stuff we purchased in the past decade. The upgrades represent an equivalent of diminishing returns.
It's like now I'm suppose to shell out 1800e for a "new" phone, that's identical as my current one, just the have new SoC and cameras? [the BS about making it thinner and lighter and bezels slimmer, when I saw it I was seriously offended, Samsung must think that people are complete morons].
Also, the Z790 chipset will bring PCi-e 5.0 for M.2 drives..."joy". I mean the Z690 has two PCi-e 5.0 slots already, so I can use the second one with PCi-e M.2 AiC adapter anytime I want. The upgrade is gonna be iterative in an almost non-existent manner. Alder Lake was a "revolution", but when I went from 10th to 11th generation, I felt like a complete fool, sucker, dumbass for jumping on the glue of Intel. And the same will go for Raptor Lake and Z790...with that difference, that 11th generation was a complete clusterf**k, since it utilized two less cores in order to reach higher frequency and had no iPC increase, so it barely counted as "better" and only in some exotic workloads compared to 10th generation counterparts.