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Hm, I've only really seen the reviews on the 1 II and 1 III's cameras. Hopefully they're better than the 5 II, doesn't sound like those are too great.

I'm planning to buy an Xperia phone sometime in the near future. For me, the most important features are generally a great camera, a headphone jack, decent hardware, and a phone that'll last me a long time (I'm aiming for about four years here). I've narrowed my options down to two phones; the Xperia 1 II (about 700e used), and the Xperia 5 III (1000e new, but will probably go down in price). Which phone should I get?

I guess, I just did 1TB as looking on eBay it's cheaper per gigabyte than buying 128/256gb

Problem is, it would be very very expensive, as each Chia plot is 101GiB large. 1TB of DDR3 RAM on eBay is about 2,000$, so you'd spend at the very minimum just under 200$ per plot.

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Also as for whether you could do crypto mining.... I mean... after electricity costs if 1-3$/month on an RX 550 is worth it to you

Right now graphics card prices aren't the best, so the RX 550 you selected is actually pretty bad value for money. That power supply also isn't that great, and you also don't have a case. This build is better, but the graphics card is the 3200G's integrated GPU (the Vega 8), which will run the games you want to, but a decent bit slower than the RX 550. Hold on to that until graphics card prices get better, and then get something like an RX 570 for 150$. PCPartPicker Part List CPU: AMD Ryzen 3 3200G 3.6 GHz Quad-Core Processor ($128.99 @ B&H) Motherboard: ASRock B450M PRO4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard ($77.98 @ Amazon) Memory: Team T-FORCE VULCAN Z 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 CL16 Memory ($75.98 @ Amazon) Storage: ADATA XPG SX6000 Pro 256 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive ($37.99 @ Amazon) Case: Thermaltake Versa H22 ATX Mid Tower Case ($48.98 @ Newegg) Power Supply: SeaSonic CORE GM 500 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply ($64.99 @ Newegg) Total: $434.91 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-05-04 08:51 EDT-0400

The M1 Macbook Air works really well for video editing as of now, but how that'll scale in five years... I'm unsure. It's probably a better idea to wait for the higher end models if there are any. 16GB of RAM would also be good, especially as you can't upgrade the memory as it's soldered (but you can add external storage)

I have an M1 MacBook Air and one thing I'm surprised about is the DaVinci Resolve speeds; I use DaVinci Resolve and it runs well, but I didn't know it was that good

Honestly I think chia mining is just a fad.. it probably won't cause HDD/SSD shortages. Atleast it uses less electricity than GPU mining though.

You'll have to basically migrate everything to a new email, oof. Try to do that in the twelve days you have.

Hm, I wonder what the performance figures will be (especially on the iGPU, which is unbelievable already on the M1)

The absolute majority of the time it's in the M.2 format, though there are a couple of U.2 2.5" drives which use NVMe; those are mostly meant for datacenters though

It's around 1050 Ti performance from my experience

Yep; while dual-booting is probably a better solution, if you need something portable, something like an external NVMe SSD would do very well

That would actually be fairly interesting. Thing is that the last iPad's processor was basically just a less beefed up M1 from what I've read though, so I don't think really much will change; however, I do think that it would be great if iPadOS moved to be a lot closer to macOS, like some sort of hybrid (or at least acquires a more open boot process, like the Macs)

Agreed; I missed that! You can use the saved money to buy a better cooler as the intel stock one isn't that good

The 10400 comes with a (albeit kinda bad) cooler. The Quadro GPU is just because the current graphics card market is very overpriced; that used Quadro will game a lot better than both the Intel and AMD integrated graphics.

PCPartPicker Part List CPU: Intel Core i5-10400 2.9 GHz 6-Core Processor ($149.99 @ Best Buy) Motherboard: Asus PRIME H410M-E Micro ATX LGA1200 Motherboard ($95.35 @ Amazon) Memory: Team T-FORCE VULCAN Z 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 CL16 Memory ($79.98 @ Amazon) Storage: Sabrent Rocket 4.0 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive ($89.98 @ Amazon) Case: Cougar MG130-G MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($44.99 @ Amazon) Power Supply: be quiet! Pure Power 11 500 W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply ($69.90 @ Amazon) Custom: Quadro M2000 from eBay ($165.00) Total: $695.19 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-04-20 03:47 EDT-0400 This is davemc's build with the power supply and storage changed. Might be a bit expensive though at 700$. (Also, the prices, store links, etc. from this part list are specifically for somebody buying in the US; if you live in another country, tell us as stores/prices/etc. will probably change)

I'd probably go with davemc's list along with the graphics card he linked. I'd recommend changing the power supply or storage to the ones in my build, but that would be 90$ extra; it's up to you there

True.. it's probably better to go Intel right now with the current prices. My bad.

I fully agree, but it's the cheapest CPU with Vega 11 on PCPartPicker, so..

Right now isn't really the best time to build a gaming PC as there is a huge shortage of graphics cards, but luckily for the games you said you'd play you don't need graphics that are super strong, so you can probably get away with Ryzen 5 integrated graphics. PCPartPicker Part List CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3400G 3.7 GHz Quad-Core Processor ($275.00 @ Amazon) Motherboard: ASRock B450M-HDV R4.0 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard ($71.98 @ Amazon) Memory: Crucial Ballistix 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory ($88.99 @ Amazon) Storage: Sabrent Rocket 4.0 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive ($89.98 @ Amazon) Case: Corsair 275Q ATX Mid Tower Case ($79.99 @ Newegg) Power Supply: be quiet! Pure Power 11 500 W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply ($69.90 @ Amazon) Total: $675.84 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-04-20 03:27 EDT-0400 You can easily add a graphics card to this later when the prices go down.