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In 2021, no offer should have less than 4 GB of memory.  Memory is relatively cheap and one time purchase, and nowadays it's available in big sticks of ram, so they can fill a server with sticks and make lots of virtual machines.
 
For example, they can make a server with 2 x  64 core Threadrippers and 768-1 TB of memory and host 128 virtual machines each with 4 GB of memory .. 20$ x 128  = ~ $2500 a month revenue, on a $5-7000 server and maybe 20$ a month in datacenter space and bandwidth and electricity
 
Sorry but no, marketing people probably forced the 2 GB option so people would be encouraged to go for the 2 core / 4 GB version.
 

Single core and 2G ram for a full on Windows experience doesn't sound that great. I really don't understand what the target audience is for all these. 

Tesla? Zero accomplishment.  Apple? Zero accomplishment.  Intel? Zero accomplishment.  He's hopped companies more than I've taken vacations.  Coincidentally staying just long enough for vesting.  His whole claim to fame is doing something with AMD K8 15 years ago.
 
Any idiot could look at Bulldozer and say it was a shit architecture...every tech reviewer was doing just that.  But Jim Keller says it "omg brilliant visionary".

Wait until you learn about how many people get promoted out of sheer luck or circumstance.  I know of one employee who is a poster child of being promoted back to back just because they have a vagina during the time period (last 5 years) where Intel has a hard on for promoting and hiring women for no reason.  And then once you get past a certain grade level you can basically sit back and chill hopping from meeting to meeting and farming passive "credit" for other people doing actual work.  
 
TLDR don't believe the hype around a senior executive uber ultimate diamond edition vice president actually being technically skilled.  "oh they have patents in their name".  Yeah anyone can go out and patent some concept when you don't have any actual day to day work assigned to you.  You've got to be one of the "golden children" and then they'll pay for you to fuck around getting patents.
 
I could probably rant for a few hours on this subject.  And for the record I called out Jim Keller as being a shit hire too and I was right.  Just a dude farming pensions and sign-on bonuses.

Tbh I would say that this would be closer to being obsessed with a movie director rather than an actress or actor as tbh that is sorta what these people are at this point as they lead development of a technology. Without talented people under them yeah it will be hard for them to succeed but the same can be said about a movie director. 

Not trying to continue the flame war. I think a bit of context may help.
 
As somebody who works in retail, and sells Mac's. The general consumer does seem to think that Mac's are invunerable to malware. I would say at least half, on certain days considerably more. Even mentioning antivirus to these people gets a very distinct "Mac's don't get virus's" response. 
 
Also, being mad at people for spreading this. When correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't apple the one making ad's where the windows computer (man in a suit) was sick. And the Mac (trendy dude) was all like I don't get virus'.
 
I mean they kind of did start it. 
Don't get me wrong OSX/OS11 seems to be much more secure since they've moved to gpl3.0 compliance and agreement. But apples inability to publicly acknowledge problems will mean that this will likely remain a problem unless they themselves address it.
 
Realistically, the best solution would be people needing a common sense best practises online license to even be able to use the internet. That would likely solve a good 80% of malware cases on all platforms.

Anyone tech savvy knows any system can be compromised
 
But to the average computer illiterate person, the "Apple doesn't get viruses" is something they do believe, there is a reason it's a stereotype. 
 
There's been people on this very forum who complain that either they or their parents computer got infected with a virus and their response was "fuck Windows, I'm just going to buy me/them a mac". 
 
Whether it's true or not doesn't stop some people from thinking it's a fact. 

Sounds like a stereotype to me. Anyone with a brain knows any system can be compromised. 

Well, there is a saying "You pay for mistakes" 

this to me is lazy. not having time because you didnt want to get up a few minutes early or making excuses is lazy. period. if you are in a rush at all or rushing normally get up earlier. that is lazy. 
 
here is your security backing.
 
Benjamin Franklin once said: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

Someone should of hit control c on him before he died and pasted him

It's not tinfoil hat at all, everyone knows Alexa keeps recordings of you, everyone knows Ring doorbells are basically a police surveillance network. It's crazier to not assume at least some of these little IoT devices aren't data mining your network. They recently found third party trackers from Facebook, Google and others in Ring doorbells lol.

Even the completely inept US Government(FBI specifically in this case) says you should have all of your IoT tumor devices on a separate network, which is especially hilarious when the average American is so ignorant when it comes to networking that they'll call their ISP a "WiFi company".

More efficient life flow? The seconds you save is hardly worth it compared to the security and privacy vulnerabilities they create. It's not the latest Cool™ SmartHome™ SmartTech™ so it might not be popular with the average bugman, but I'd recommend most people just get a clapper if they're really too lazy to get up to turn the lights off lol

It absolutely baffles me that the gaming & media industry has deliberately segmented their markets for the better part of 50-70 years, and yet they still don't understand why people pirate, share, or otherwise refuse to pay for their content. ?
 
To be clear, I think a lot of people want to pay for content they truly enjoy, or a the very least would be willing to pay if the content was made easily accessible whenever, wherever, on whatever platform they were using, but are unable to justify the cost of signing up for more than 1 or 2 streaming services because of the absurdity of having to switch between devices or platforms, not to mention the cost, simply because these publisher and distributors can't get it through their archaic thought processes that consumer straight up DO NOT CARE who the game or movie is "brought to you by", outside of the original cast, crew, developers, designers, musicians, artists, etc. who actually worked on the project.

I hope Game stream dies an horrible death. and i hope these new kids don't fall for it, as it starts with that, befoe you know they are the majority. 

Then it’s going to take a lot of serious die hard fans to make it financially successful. Personally I didn’t even subscribe to GFN but I liked the idea of it. Mostly for the technology to make its way down to the consumer level. Which steam remote play sort of has done. But if you try to force me to use your platform to play your game then I likely won’t bother. Rockstar has forced the move to use their game launcher. And I basically quit playing GTAV. 

Anything that throws a monkey wrench into cloud gaming I'm all for lol. Don't think it'll slow it down much though, bugmen will sacrifice almost anything for the slightest conveniences.
Like bugmen will buy smart light switches that data mine your network and have apps that data mine your phone and get an Amazon Echo that records everything you say and zooshes it off to cloud for everyone in China/India/Government to hear, all because they're too lazy to get up off their asses and flip a switch lmao. Cloud gaming is right up the ally of those people.

Well I would imagine Activision / Blizzard is looking to make it's own streaming service, or at least it's own subscription gaming service such as Origin Access or Xbox Game Pass. They have enough hubris to think they are big enough for that.
 
I do agree this is a bad trend. Pretty soon you will have to be subscribed to 3-4 game subscriptions to be able to play all the games you want. The fact that it is streaming or not is kind of irrelevant, because there are more and more subscription services where you download the full game as well (such as Origin Premier and Game Pass). Perhaps publishers are looking to phase out straight up "purchasing" games over time.
 
By and large, this would be a bad value. At an average price of $15 / mo (Origin Acces Premier Price), this would easily run you $45-$60 a month. Might be good for people who buy a ton of games, but for me personally, I buy like 3-4 full price games a year maybe. So this would be extremely bad value for me.
 
Also, this is a worrying trend seeing as how publishers like EA release unfinished games on the regular: Anthem, Battlefield V, etc. Pretty soon you will be subscribed to a bunch of gaming services with a bunch of beta tests on offer... ?
 
Every day we are moving further and further from the trusted: buy a disc/cartridge, put it in machine, play.
 
 

This is exactly why I don't subscribe to any kind of game pass, only have one TV streaming service active at once (backing up what I watch as I do), and will never ever take cloud gaming seriously. I still buy music on CD's, movies on Blu-ray and games individually. If there isn't a copy of the data in my house then as far as I'm concerned I don't own it. I'm not paying for 10+ different subscriptions, which will total far more than I pay per month for what I want individually. Not to mention once I've bought stuff there's no chance it will become unavailable due to changing distribution agreements. They can't come and take my discs or hard-drive away.
 
Should the time come when streaming is the only way to consume modern media, then I'll just become a retro-hermit.

there is nothing wrong with the fx6300, i would get a 1660 but up to you. after that you can upgrade the board and proc, the ram you can reuse for a little bit same as the drives.

You mean an RDNA card.. yer simple.

Moving to Zen2+ also opens the door for an ARM translation, AMDs Chiplet solution would let apple have a hybrid system with both x86 and ARM chiplets with a unified memory controller, intel cant offer that to apple. And jumping directly to ARM without any x86 support would but a lot of pressue on x86-64 emulation (something that apple don't realy have a license to do in hardware).

There is not Code reason they could not switch, apple have more than enough skilled low level compiler geeks to be able to get LLVM to compile well to Zen. And on that point AMD have been putting a lot of work into LLVM over the last year so... 

Contracts is the point here there were rumors back when apple moved to intel that apple signed some exclusivity deal with them to only use their chips and not AMD. But that contract might well have expired? 

currently there is not markup on the macPro (For the CPU) they are charging intels list price.  (they are selecting very costly chips from intel that is true)

Yeah. Be it CCPA or GDPR, "reason we've blocked/deleted your account" is not something you're going to find because it would undermine fraud prevention.
 
Just be aware on MMO games that you can be blocked or banned for a lot of trivial things, be it running the game in a VM so you can play on Linux, or using the F bombs in the chat.