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future proofing

I understand the sentiment, but this wording was always a marketing ploy for people to spend more than they need and it was never useful.

When I was young, we were having so many innovations that there was no need to overpay, in two years you could get something twice as powerful for half the price. Even less if you could get used.

Then it took a halt, by the time I needed more memory. It was cheap to get a DDR3 + mobo + CPU than filling the empty slots on my DDR2 motherboard.

I failed for "future proofing" a few times. Extra memory slots, multicores and 64bits that windows and programs struggled to see, PSU with 4x that power I needed, when I needed it most of the plugs already changed.

I lived through a bunch of hardware shenanigans, some were shrugged, some were caught and received a slap on the wrist.

Now, more than ever, people should buy what they can afford and properly dimension their hardware for their current needs, not some future fantasy. There are communities over here that can help them with that.

There are no big innovations either, mostly exaggerated hardware usage for no apparent reason to force buy new hardware that does not do much either.

My rule of thumb for games early last year was if you cannot build something better than Steam Deck for cheaper, get the Deck, but now it is all crazy.