The number of total desktop sales are down, yes, but this is largely because businesses and institutions which use hundreds of devices are switching considerable portions of their hardware to compact devices like you describe. Sales for PCs though, as in Personal Computers for home use, specifically gaming are at an all time high. "The obvious drivers for last year's growth centered around work from home and remote learning needs, but the strength of the consumer market should not be overlooked. We continue to see gaming PCs and monitor sales at all-time highs and Chrome-based devices are expanding beyond education into the consumer market. In retrospect, the pandemic not only fueled PC market demand but also created opportunities that resulted in a market expansion." So to answer your question for who owns desktops these days? Fewer businesses, more people.
Maybe 10% of our userbase at work get laptops, everyone else is on desktops. At my last place everyone had desktops, if you wanted to work remotely you had to BYOD. We were moving some offices over to thin clients.
At the rate the Bitcoin-induced environmental disaster is going, having a proper desktop or decent laptop may well become a status symbol...
Heh. Not quite the... status... I meant. More like how the PCMR... warriors... are getting priced out of their hardware
Well, at least you bought the smart and cost efficient generation of GPU’s. I’m the clown who bought a RTX 2080 Ti, 3 months before the announcement of RTX30xx series…
I bought an RTX 2060 Super about that same time. Considering what happened with the RTX30xx series (price-wise), I am happy with my decision.
Well, that’s a cheap card so I understand why you are glad with that decision. the price of a 2080ti on the other hand…. *honk* *honk* If you truly want to see how red my clown nose is look down below: Spoiler: RTX 3080 TI price history Spoiler: RTX 2080 TI price history I mean... I guess the only upside was the fact that I was able to get a 2080ti whereas the 30xx series were next to impossible to get until quite recently.
I am impressed in the ability to find something and argue from a light hearted joke... please go the tech grief discussion to off topic and go back to the topic of the thread.
Can you please stop saying unsubstantiated assumptions and frame them as indisputable truths? it would be much appreciated, there are people who actually believed what you said.
Master model that is used for making molds is not necessary a box art painted model Some GW painted models are 3d print (you can see layers on high res photos sometimes) but I dont think thats the case with CB
What are you talking about? It's an industry standard that commission artists paint highest possible quality, often resin copies of miniatures for the box art. It's nothing inherently wrong or bad, just a fact of the trade. It's done because they are higher detail and available sooner than the actual production models. And it is, or at least used to, be true for CB as well. Angel Giraldez, when he used to be the sole painter of everything Infinity, disclosed several times that he often painted preproduction resin casts off the master mould, not metal minis we buy. If since then things changed in the process the company is going by nowadays, I would appreciate if you said that, instead of making a heavy handed and insulting implication in my direction.
I think there's a misunderstanding, Angel stated that he often used preproduction resin casts off the master mould because they were available a lot sooner and allowed him more time to schedul work on a particular mini. Not that he painted the singular master model the production moulds were made off.
I want to smash that keyboard on the face of whoever thought those color-changing lights would be a good idea.
