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[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 7 points 2 weeks ago

they stripped away some of the upgradability.

They stripped away pretty much all of it.

they couldn't get it to work because in order to share RAM between the CPU and GPU in the way they wanted

Then they shouldn't have made it. That's their whole shtick, and it only took them a few years to go back on it.

It's not like those speeds deliver any sort of practical advantage anyway, like I said earlier. Especially not in gaming.

It's just a lazy cash grab.

[-] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yeah, I don't really disagree. Though I do think it's more upgradeable than if another company made the same sort of product, given you can upgrade the motherboard. But I have no real interest in it. It doesn't feel like a lazy cash grab to me. But it does feel like they're confused about who's actually buying their devices and what those people want.

Though, who knows, maybe they're selling great. What do I know. I'll stick to the industry standard of socketed components in a standard case format rather than a new novel design that can't be as upgradable.

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