Recent content by BSim500

If they can do it for gaming laptops (inc European models), then can do it for business models too. Legion's aside, even the cheaper branded Lenovo LOQ's make better business laptops for typing ergonomics than half the business laptops. In fact I know two people who bought gaming laptops for...

Definition of a good business laptop = one which doesn't come with stupid half-height cursor keys or hide commonly use Page Up / Page Down / Home / End as secondary "Fn" functions that make it the absolute worst to use when spending all day moving between lines / cells in Word & Excel, nor...

It's a good idea to upgrade from unsupported OS's. Eg, if you don't, you can end up leaking pages from your personal diary. :D

At this stage I'm convinced there's some strange language barrier going on here with your posts that half the forum (myself included) can't quite figure out. Reality = Microsoft will pull the plug on mainstream W10 support next year (Oct 14th 2025 to be exact). So yeah, it kinda is Microsoft...

Same here. These days it takes anywhere between 5-30 patches and 6 months to 5 years for some released games to be "Actually Finished (tm)". No rush to buy Day One, let alone be a pre-orderer unpaid beta-tester anymore.

Given you're still running W10 (according to your profile), you obviously won't have been "forced" to upgrade to W11 since you aren't even running it... :D

DRM-Free build? For others, it's simply wanting to support healthy competition. I own plenty of games on Steam, but I certainly don't want it to end up the only store in town either.

Blamed with good reason. It would be the easiest thing in the world to separate security & bug fixes from the endless stream of bloated buggy "feature" updates and have a secure Windows 10-11 without p*ssing off half the userbase with constantly degrading QoL anti-features. They've even...

We have indeed seen plenty of FUD, but it would be equally staggeringly naive to think the next +25 years of PC gaming are going to be anything like the past given how much has changed for the worse in just the last two releases on the back of "well not all complaints we're heard since W8 came...

AI may well have its uses, but I honestly can't wait until the current "echos of dot-com bubble" level of hysterical overhype dies down and the people who end up using it are those who actually need it, not "let's try and shoehorn it into anything & everything for the sake of jumping on a...

I always buy the DRM-Free GOG version where possible. The only way they'll be able to prevent me playing in future is to physically break the door down and literally prise the offline installer filled NAS out of my hands. Unlike other platforms, remotely flipping a "we hereby revoke your...

That it took modders to do it after 20 years of nothing is ironically the point that flew over your head...

Exactly. Remember the closure of Ensemble Studios? The studio that made +15 million selling Age of Empires, Age of Mythology, etc, series, mainly because PC RTS's couldn't be consolized enough to play well on the Xbox...

I'm still waiting to celebrate an actual replacement for the G300S, for us 10% "outcasts" of society who are left-handed and want an "Actually Ambidextrous (tm)" mouse in 2024 that isn't just another obvious right-handed one where a measly 2x extra thumb buttons are on the wrong side...

Depends on how they get released. I can't say I'm a fan of artificial crippling up to 66% of iGPU cores unless you buy the top-end one (780M vs 760M vs 740M) which then tends to be "double-brand-gated" by OEM's behind only the most premium brands, eg, you want a laptop with 780M = you have to...