I think many cattle are just using laptops as easy-to-move desktops. Placed on desk, plugged in forever, not in lap. One purchase, and you don't need to buy a display, or even a mouse if you don't want to.
I basically lived out of a surplus business laptop running Linux for most of my 20s. Cheapo i5 laptop with 4GB of RAM from 2013, later upgraded to a whopping 6GB!
I hate tablets, and anything with a touchscreen for that matter which is why (among other reasons) I limit using my phone as much as possible, but I've always used laptops like people use tablets. Casual Internet browsing, watching movies/shows, reading, light gaming (mostly emulators) etc etc. I like the tactile feel of a keyboard and like something I can shitpost on from the comfort of my bed or my couch, as opposed to having to get up and go to my desk and firing up my desktop PC. And I've used laptops as daily computing when I was in peak broke nigga mode before years ago, and they work perfectly fine for that too.
That's not how it works. Gaming laptops serve a wealth of purposes, not just gaming. A handheld console OTOH is just that, a handheld console. It serves only one purpose.
A thin client is a low-powered, fanless (mini) PC, not a dumb terminal. It can run an OS of its own and all kinds of apps and games, just not very demanding ones. It doesn't have to be connected, it doesn't need to use PXE or similar to boot.
That could work, but Google really need to get there and make it a standard any phone can use. Just look how long it took them to bring DP Alternate to their own Pixel series.
Honestly, I really liked the 3D effect on the 3DS but it was annoying to use on such a small screen. If games supported it (or some kind of shim came out to enable it in 3D games), I'd honestly spend the money on an ultrawide 3D monitor.
Depends. Are you trying to generate furry porn, or realistic furry porn?
No, just play video games.
Then they're both probably fine.
Artificially reproduced UE5 ghosting effect for dreamy liminalism.
There was 2D hardware acceleration. The problem was more that there wasn’t any Direct3D or OpenGL so it was underutilized.
There was plenty of use of accelerated 2D rendering hardware via APIs like DirectDraw, GDI, VESA BIOS Extensions, and a whole host of other proprietary APIs for 2D acceleration used by games. Actually most 3D games made heavy use of the 2D card even if you were using software rendering.
There's a bunch of different versions. What do you mean? Like is the Sapphire Pulse 9070 XT a good pick?
Many of them are branded depending on vendor. I'm still running Intel Onboard. Depending on what games you want, it needs at least DX11 and a bajillion things I don't know because I don't play games.
The differences should be minor. Sapphire is a well regarded AMD add-in board partner. Probably just pick one based on price.
Yep. I'm running an ASUS Prime OC version and getting decent performance. Maybe you'll want to look at your PSU and Case and determine if whatever you're looking for will fit, and whether you're got the proper power solution.
I try to pretend I'm not jealous but I very much am