• David_Eight@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I think the biggest thing would be getting a PC with decent specs for $500. Why would anybody buy a Dell desktop or the like ever again? Like even if you don’t game and need to do office work it’d probably be the best option.

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      8 months ago

      You can almost build something like that for this price. Or you can do it if you buy some second hand stuff. But for an OEM building a few million units it would definitely be doable.

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        8 months ago

        Yeah, but I was thinking more parents buying a console for their kids. Like oh little Jimmy can do his homework on this thing too, great I didn’t have to buy him another computer. Or imagine if Microsoft put windows on Xboxes, every office building would be full of them lol.

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        8 months ago

        Especially if they’re going to make their profit in increased game sales.

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      8 months ago

      MiniPCs are surprisingly good at this price point; good enough that I would say for most people’s average use case they would be satisfied.

      I’d like to see them get more popular.