Uhhhhh what’s ALVR

Why wouldn’t they? “Enough” is not in their vocabulary. Why not make even more money? What’re you gonna do, stop using Google Maps?

The form factor is why this thing is cool though

What’s cool about spending ridiculous amounts of money on needlessly small products?

I know a handful of tournament organizers who love how much better these things have gotten

Like Minesweeper tournaments?

Also, this is using about a tenth of the energy that your ATX build will likely use.

Because it’s doing a tenth as much work.

I kinda stopped paying attention to him when he said oculink 4i has 8 lanes of pcie, or something like that.

Yeah it’s very obvious that he speedruns these reviews. How can you expect him to properly test the hardware when he can’t even make sure the specs are accurate, or even give it just a quick spell-check?

You can buy an ATX form factor and get double the power for the same money. There’s no sense in using mobile processors in desktop PCs.

Those things are less-likely to be in outdoor areas than anywhere else.

Couldn’t disagree more, and I’m actually working on a “link dumping” Lemmy instance. Like an RSS reader but one that adds community votes and comments, and aggregates feeds for subscriptions.

Of course you’re welcome to not follow the instance or the “communities”.

Have you tried touching grass? 😃

But seriously, most outdoor activities are like the most private things you’ll do all day.

I don’t know why we’re sharing this. This is a bad purchase and a poor use-case. Also this guy just churns out these benchmark videos for Mini PCs like they’re going out of style.

Taking a loan does not make a purchase easier, you pay even more anyway

Yes, as I said, they’re stupid.

So point still stands, a $450 phone IS an egregious lot

No, it doesn’t. And no, it’s not. $450 gets you a SIGNIFICANTLY better device than $200. Probably 95% of available phones are well over $200. Just because you personally can’t afford it does not make it “egregious”.