Will 2025 mark the End of PC's as we've known them?

[Edgar Friendly]

Yeah, I was just joking, getting an eGPU is almost always a bad deal

I would assume so, unless you're talking about hooking it up to a machine which has been engineered to use one from the get-go.

 

[RANCIDMILKO ™ ®©]

I would assume so, unless you're talking about hooking it up to a machine which has been engineered to use one from the get-go.

And still, computer parts are cheap today.

 

[Edgar Friendly]

And still, computer parts are cheap today.

In most brands other than HP, you'd be right -- but HP is absurdly obnoxious about incorporating proprietary components. In the case of this bargain basement bullshit on my desk, the motherboard.

 

[RANCIDMILKO ™ ®©]

In most brands other than HP, you'd be right -- but HP is absurdly obnoxious about incorporating proprietary components. In the case of this bargain basement bullshit on my desk, the motherboard.

I don't even consider brand name desktops these days

I buy the parts I want, that's why my PCs last for a long time

Notebooks are a different matter