• @Estiar
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    137 months ago

    Problem comes when Anon has a laptop and doesn’t want external drives

      • @[email protected]
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        97 months ago

        Most laptops only have a single slot.

        You want people to upgrade their SSD and reinstall their OS just to play a game?

        They could just … not play that game.

      • @themoonisacheese
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        47 months ago

        Not anymore really. SSDs are mostly soldered in nowadays.

        • @[email protected]
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          17 months ago

          Surely that’s just some apple bullshit. Asshats always seem to follow them but surely that’s not becoming a norm… Right?

          • @themoonisacheese
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            07 months ago

            Plenty of consumer laptops sold within the last 5 years have soldered in SSDs. Apple does it because it makes for great market segmentation.

          • @themoonisacheese
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            27 months ago

            This isn’t about me. I don’t buy laptops in general as they’re overpriced garbage. This is about how companies treat consumers and how it’s easy for someone to buy a laptop they think is good when it’s not.

    • @[email protected]
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      -157 months ago

      That’s when you learn that
      a) you can upgrade laptops with a larger SSD and
      b) that it’s a bad idea to buy one that has the SSD soldered on…

      • @[email protected]
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        187 months ago

        Orrrrr just don’t buy games that routinely require you to have 250gb of space dedicated to them.

        • BruceTwarzen
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          67 months ago

          Yeah what the fuck? Just buy a 4080, just open your laptop and fuck around with a new ssd, so worth it to play the new game that is actually the ladt three games.

      • Fuck spez
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        37 months ago

        External SSDs are more than fast enough for any game as long as there’s not a bus or enclosure bottleneck, and they’re portable. You don’t even need USB 4 or Thunderbolt to get GB/s throughput with an NVMe drive.