COLLAPSE of Personal Computing

Steve and Tim at Hardware Unboxed argue that the long-term demand for gaming is independent of the current AI hype cycle. They believe that even if hardware innovation slows, demand will eventually lead to new market entrants filling the void. They reiterated that while the current market climate is challenging for PC enthusiasts, they are optimistic about the long-term future. They believe reports of a "collapse" are overstated and that local, owned hardware will remain relevant for the foreseeable future.

 
The top end of the PC market has got
Nelly said:
Steve and Tim at Hardware Unboxed argue that the long-term demand for gaming is independent of the current AI hype cycle. They believe that even if hardware innovation slows, demand will eventually lead to new market entrants filling the void. They reiterated that while the current market climate is challenging for PC enthusiasts, they are optimistic about the long-term future. They believe reports of a "collapse" are overstated and that local, owned hardware will remain relevant for the foreseeable future.

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You mean the sky isn't falling? Thank goodness.
 
Media outlets that rely on the local hardware market’s popularity saying it’ll remain relevant? Shocked, shocked I say.

Most people don’t want to move to subscriptions, but in the modern world, we don’t get what we want.
 
The gaming market will move to Sony and Microsoft on custom AMD APUs. Personal computing is a little more complex but medium to long term everyone will likely be running an APU of some sort.
 
Nelly said:
Steve and Tim at Hardware Unboxed argue that the long-term demand for gaming is independent of the current AI hype cycle. They believe that even if hardware innovation slows, demand will eventually lead to new market entrants filling the void. They reiterated that while the current market climate is challenging for PC enthusiasts, they are optimistic about the long-term future. They believe reports of a "collapse" are overstated and that local, owned hardware will remain relevant for the foreseeable future.
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I raise you this video in the article below from someone respected and not youtubers that love drama or to create clicks by adding their so called view.. These two are a bunch of clowns to me, the original guy that use to run HUB was way better in some ways, their clickbait thumbnails are some of the worst. Anyways they have no idea what's going to happen and neither does anyone else on YouTube.

Reality is if these companies stop making hardware for consumers then well new world and welcome to the cloud of subscriptions. We don't know yet what the end game will be and how consumer technology will change, just look at physical media vs digital now..

Many swore digital wouldn't take over physical.. But these same companies that own the content pretended to us all digital will be cheaper and environmentally friendly, the latter being only truthful part. Reality they started killing physical media so they can sell it directly to the consumer and control it via DRM etc and most importantly control the price and get all the profits as no middle men and retailers needed as with physical media..

The end game with these technologies companies always ends with this.. Control in the form of they can always take it away from you or stop you using it where they don't want you to use it and adding subscriptions to it all in some way or another, just look at HP and their printers.. You have to subscribe to be able to use them and print with the ink you purchased.. Madness

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak sounds alarm on tech’s future: ‘I’m not a fan of AI’​


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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak sounds alarm on tech’s future: ‘I’m not a fan of AI’ | Fox Business Video

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak joins 'The Claman Countdown' to reflect on Apple’s 50th anniversary, weigh in on the rise of AI and warn about the growing power of Big Tech.
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Anyway I hope you enjoy the video with a truly respected Steve and not some YouTube pretenders.
 
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I do miss the days when PC hardware felt exciting rather than just expensive and gloomy. Second hand gear is probably where the fun is for a lot of people now.
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This. We also need to think about 'our' businesses and how to keep supporting them during this period, prices may be high but can be certain the margins aren't.
 
Steve and Tim at Hardware Unboxed argue that the long-term demand for gaming is independent of the current AI hype cycle. They believe that even if hardware innovation slows, demand will eventually lead to new market entrants filling the void.
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What is gaming? Is it playing on your phone? I sadly think we're going to end up with a bit of a lost generation.
 
I think we will end up playing vintage games on hardware that can emulate it. New hardware and vintage hardware will become unaffordable.
 
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I think we will end up playing vintage games on hardware that can emulate it. New hardware and vintage hardware will become unaffordable.
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That's what I'm doing. Got an old pentium 3 out of the loft and installed redhat 5.2 on it, voodoo 2, and played some quake and quake 2. :D

*Edit* I hate coil whine, I dont know if these old computers had it because they sound like an fa-18 taking off a carrier.
 
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No new GPUs to review, no new CPU architectures coming out to test and evaluate, most of the usual PC enthusiast builders have been priced out of the hobby so no-one is interested in product reviews. Steve has to get content out or fade away.

Maybe he ought to switch to reviewing Moza (and 'soon' Virpil) force feedback flight sim joysticks since my youtube feed seems to be full of reviews for the AB6 and AB9.
 
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It'll be squeaky-bum time for a lot of these tech-channels. I haven't watched a Hardware Unboxed video in a good while now. Gamers Nexus I try to watch but they move it on to the same "AI bad" broken record, regardless of what the video is about. I'll watch Tech Yes City when a video comes out, because it's usually old second hand stuff, but seems like he's given up.
Low sub channels that are just making stuff they want, about tech that used to be cool is where it's at nowadays.
 
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