Mysteryboi:

Which part of what i said implies you shouldn't have a choice ? Not everyone has the same kinds of budget so logically if things are getting more expensive just for the sake of it and not because it actually costs that much to make something then it seems reasonable to want it to be priced fairly and if you want to spend $7000 on a something that may only be worth $2000 i have no issue with you doing that.

Pryme:

This companies make bilions nowadays, they have teams of financial analysts shaping the business and adpat. Just verify the profit YoY is this last years, they made a lot of money already.

Kiriakos-GR:

Back at 1996 we did not had any 3D or even video acceleration, up to a point we should be now thankful that industry gave to us latest developments (always for a price). Nowadays we facing a new condition, a constant marketing pressure which trying to convince youth that happiness this is owning always latest computer parts production, no matter the cost. At current condition the ones demonstrating resistance at the voices of marketing they are my own friends too.

pegasus1:

And that is the sign of a well run and efficient business, they shouldn't be penalised for it. If there is no reward in life, for working hard, pursuing a dream, taking entrepreneurial risk, failing, starting again, then succeeding, what's the point. In 2000, Denise Coates registered the domain name Bet365, in 2020 she paid £276 million in tax, she also paid all her staff full wages during the Covid lockdown. If you punish successful people and companies by excessively taxing them then they simply move to another country, as i did four years ago.

metagamer:

We did have 3Dfx Voodoo

Kiriakos-GR:

This is year 1998 hardware, all that we had to test it with was Doom & Unreal 2.

Pryme:

And S3 ViRGE, it was one of the first 2D/3D accelerators on the market. I had one, it was bad but worked.

Valken:

Honestly, I am WAITING for a huge DEPRESSION, not recession, to hit. Been saving all my money, not buying anything not required to survive, then will buy up all the goodies at rock bottom prices, which is what a real free trade economy should be. Hope all them direct to crypto sales manufactures choke on their freefall and let consumers reap it in. Brace yourselves everyone.

pegasus1:

The issue with that is inflation, all the money you have saved has devalued as interest rates for savings are way less than the rate of inflation. You have more money but that money has the same or less buying power. With the exception of some long term investments, late last year i liquified all my invested assets and bought another house. Also oddly my 18 month old car now has a higher resale value than what i paid for it ha ha ha ha ha.

Kiriakos-GR:

Its NVIDIA fault 100%, all that brainwash, so to convince rich people, that without 4K monitor and 300FPS they will not have the advantage at gaming. The long story in short, we do not need e-sport class hardware for having a bit of fun with our own computer.

Kiriakos-GR:

This is solely the opinion of one UK resident, it does not represent a global standard. And I did write this explanation, by be positive charged.

fantaskarsef:

Heh, this is funny. My car is probably the weakest of them all with only 70HP but I should have a bad conscience when I aim to buy a 4080Ti, or maybe above. Can't make this up.

pegasus1:

Commodore Amiga 500 was released in 1997 at a list price of £500 (equivalent to £1,430 in 2020)

CrazY_Milojko:

As a Commodore Amiga 500 owner backten I say A500 got released much earlier 😀

Kiriakos-GR:

Best joke ever.... we did not have ever internet connection back then. Dial up 33K if you were lucky. Any way let's get back on topic.

Solfaur:

My car too was worth like half the price I paid for my 3080Ti when I got it... 😛

Kiriakos-GR:

Pay 100 EUR in advance at my bank account, so to get troll's answer due telephone line. Teaching this is expensive. You kill your time as participant in this database, I am not.