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How the Xbox 360 knows if your hard drive is genuine

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Re: How the Xbox 360 knows if your hard drive is genuine

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Post by antifa »

Waterluvian wrote: post #143
caslon wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Switch is the fifth best selling console of all time. That's not at all a fair comparison, especially given the difference in price point and how long the Switch has been on the market. On the other hand, it's plausible that the Steam Deck could hit within 50% of Vita, the Wii U or Gamecube, which is amazing for Valve's second push into the console market, and immensely profitable, given Valve owns pretty much th…

I think it’s also not fair to compare it to commercially failed consoles like the Wii U or Game Cube. I just picked the closest analog: a modern handheld that can be plugged into a TV.

In what universe can Wii U or Game Cube be considered "failed"? They were hugely successful. You need a much better definition of failure than "not number one".

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Post by yencabulator »

Waterluvian wrote: post #143
caslon wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Switch is the fifth best selling console of all time. That's not at all a fair comparison, especially given the difference in price point and how long the Switch has been on the market. On the other hand, it's plausible that the Steam Deck could hit within 50% of Vita, the Wii U or Gamecube, which is amazing for Valve's second push into the console market, and immensely profitable, given Valve owns pretty much th…

I think it’s also not fair to compare it to commercially failed consoles like the Wii U or Game Cube. I just picked the closest analog: a modern handheld that can be plugged into a TV.

Steam Deck is also very much not like those consoles.

When the Game Cube "fails" as a product, all the worlds Game Cubes become just cubes that you can't do anything interesting with.

If Steam Deck "fails", it becomes merely a funky form factor PC. Plug it into a monitor via USB-C and it's a full desktop computer. With a surprisingly okay price for that, too!

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Post by Teknoman117 »

fennecfoxy wrote: post #253
Teknoman117 wrote: post #108

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> Dell has its own problems these days. I am honestly very annoyed that my 2019 XPS 15 will refuse to negotiate anything higher than 65W over USB-C PD on a non-Dell charger. Their dock does 130W, yet every third party dock, brick, or monitor I use it refuses to exceed 65W.

Well my XPS 9380 bricked itself after installing pop_os, now it doesn't even Dell boot logo; just totally bricked to shit. Good. It was a terrible machine anyway, overheating problems, noise problems, shoddy keyboard/power button construction. Avoid Dell.

I would but it's a work laptop...

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Post by Dylan16807 »

lfodofod wrote: post #251
tjoff wrote: post #249

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On high bitrate content you wouldn't notice.

Sure, but you get to push your encoder settings far less than you otherwise could. You always end up with either significantly bigger files or significantly lower quality.

It's significant closer to 5 percent or 50 percent?

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Post by Dylan16807 »

vel0city wrote: post #259
aesyondu wrote: post #257

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Not sure why you're so antagonistic. I don't know you or how you live your life, but as an unsolicited advice, perhaps you could have a moment of introspection. Cheers!

I will acknowledge my precious comment was a tad antagonistic, sorry. I'm just saying, if it's something you want, it fits your needs today, and you've got the budget for it, just buy it. Don't wait for the "what if the next generation is better?", Because of course the next generation will probably be better, if it comes out. But this fits your needs well enough today, and it's something you want, and there will alw…

It's a very strong pattern that the gap between version one and version two is much bigger than anywhere else, with much bigger flaws existing and being fixed.

I'm very surprised that you don't seem to be aware of this, and treat it purely as n versus n+1.

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