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[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Please yes. The average person doesn't need an insane graphics card, if they can make an APU that's affordable it'll fly off the shelves.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

That would make a nice Linux-based gaming PC for my kids that is for sure.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (3 children)

if they can make an APU that’s affordable

About that...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I meant, being devil's advocate, you're paying for a CPU, GPU and RAM in a single purchase. These things would be a MiniPC without the motherboard and connectors.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

You're paying for the mainboard as well, it's all one soldered package.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

So, not really?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The middle one is a similar kind of configuration to my Mac studio, and if you were to put this APU in an actual build it only comes out a little cheaper so the pricing tracks.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

Steamdeck success

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I’m at the point where I am only interested in handheld gaming.

The only reason I’d buy a dedicated gpu these days is to run AI stuff locally.