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Console market craters as Xbox sales crash 33% to the lowest since launch 25 years ago, PS5 sales drop 25% (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

50 might be pushing it here, that is super old and low spec. Even an N150 laptop costs more. Can comfortably find 10th gen i5 desktops for under £200 though. Laptops seem to cost quite a bit more if I skim across CEX. I suspect being easier to store helps as they don't want to move them so quickly while desktops are taking up more space and they want to shift it faster.

Downside with those desktops is that its often full of proprietary HP or dell bullshit. But then laptops are even worse so I guess that is your choice. Still, CEX have got a 5 year warranty on second hand things which is pretty good.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was actually thinking quite out of date actually. Also the thrift store near me tends to have piss cheap laptops cause they are locked or have wipped drives. But even if it's say 16 years old you could still play Kotor, Republic Cammandos, every Fallout up until 4, Dragon Age Origins, and plenty more modern no but good absolutely.

[–] HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would probably see if factorio can run on it. Rimworld too.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Modded? No. Unmodded? Maybe. I used to run an ultra modded NV save on a shitty laptop from 2010.

[–] HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Well it depends on the mods, for both games lightly modded should be fine. Throwing in 100s might be a problem though.

Then again, 1.7 for Rimworld is apparently improving performance by quite a bit. So 2-4 times as many mods?

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 23 hours ago

I thought a hundred plus mods was lightly modded Rimworld? The game is supposed to take over twenty minutes to launch right?