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Doubt it, but it does feel like the good times are behind us. I imagine pc building as we know it is going to continue to skew towards high end.
Though I can see mid range and lower end stuff move in the direction of sbc’s and stuff like the Framework desktop, where your cpu, ram, and probably gpu are a single package soldered to your main board. So when you upgrade you might keep your chassis, psu, and storage, but everything else is one piece and has to be replaced at the same time. Which, tbh, I don’t think is the worst thing in the world.
If all the medium range stuff is just last year’s high end, I can live with that.
I see it going high end builds, mid and low end will become single board mini computers. Super charge this as we phase out x86
I feel like the popularity or gaming handhelds could help accelerate this as well. I would actually love a higher performance sbc standard that you could chuck into a mini desktop, laptop, or handheld. That would kind of be the dream for me. You could cascade your boards down to your other systems. Like take the board out of the desktop and put it in your handheld, and the one from your handheld into your laptop. Would be sick