u/teki321

What makes you think that the problem is the programming language?

This is my guess too. They are continuously recalibrating, which feels highly unfair because their pricing ends up meaning very little. I imagine they see it as having been generous before and now simply converging on the real pricing. I see it more as having the candy taken away.

Luckily there is competition.

Mine looks like this, not sure if it helps:

0x48 => {
    // BIT 1,B
    let srcval = self.state.r8[R_B];
    let val = srcval & 0x02;
    self.state.r8[R_F] = (val & F_S)
        | (if val != 0 { 0 } else { F_Z | F_PV })
        | (srcval & (F_3 | F_5))
        | F_H
        | (self.state.r8[R_F] & F_C);
    (8, 2)
}

I think it is just very Australian. You can see the effects of a isolation + small market -> small stock -> small variety.

Look around on youtube: "running games without gpu using swiftshader" Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uAK2h1M-7g

There was life before GPUs were accessible and there are still places on earth where these things are considered expensive. Some can enjoy a game at 15 fps some would not play anything below 120.

"Marketplaces" were a shock a few years back, but now common place in Australia too. The next step was to sell second hand goods at major retailers.

btw I had a moment like this when I saw R36S in a shopping mall on the shelf.

For some the same is true for purpose made devices above a certain (low) price. For me personally progress grained to halt orind the R36S (which was/is not novel, but cheap). There is some movement to get PSP running for a reasonable price, but it is still at least double of the price of a R36S.

Once you go up in price range, I actually do agree with the just use your phone gang.

Every boy who gets one for school will try to play games on them and they will do a lot better than even non cheap Windows laptops. (but not many will install heroic luncher for example)

Mint minden másra erre is rá kell érezni. Ha van mentorálás használd ki, ha nincs próbálgasd s ami működik azt hazználd, s majd onnan fejlődsz tovább. Nekem sokat segített otthon hobbi dolgokra elkezdeni használni (opencode zen), s ez nem csak kódolás volt, hanem pl az adóbevallást is jól össze lehet vele rakni (s onnan már csak egy lépés az előre tervezés).

Wine wasn't about games originally, but there is a lot more effort going to make those work than anything else.

Sad that that did not work out.

You can try to ship a version with Wine. No need to port, just make sure it runs (good for Steam Deck support too).

We are so lucky that there is some decent competition. I am looking for a laptop and was planning to get a mid spec, but new Windows one so I can run Linux on it too. This year's laptop releases are worse than last year's and cost more too. I either can get a Lunar Lake Windows laptop (which were btw cheaper around Christmas than now) or a MacBook Neo.

It should be, we are going back to the Intel Integrated Graphics days in 2026. (just don't let the kids see that their friends are gaming on the Neo) I think things will improve once the 338H laptops come down in price (maybe a year, 1.5 year), but right now Intel is making Apple look awesome.

The A18 Pro vs 4 Xe cores: https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/compute/compare/6302875?baseline=6311592 and this has half of that, it is gonna be bad.

They removed it now completely.

The Apple gift card was removed now too....

With 2 Xe cores :/. I know expectations are low, but as software evolve even OS + browsers will push these crappy GPUs to the limit.

The value of Macs always kept fluctuating. As better components are getting cheaper, mid range Windows machines can be had for not a lot of money around their end of life. In 2026 Macs are gonna be good values, thanks to RAM+SSD prices and Intel's horrible Panther Lake lunch (high prices, worse GPUs than the prev gen).

That is what I can see in Australia. All Lunar Lake laptops with Arc GPU (130V/T 140V) were replaced with the new 322/325/355 CPUs and they cost a lot more than previous gen.

I was planning to get a new laptop for Linux use, but right now (and it is very early, the Au market is slow) these laptops are very bad deals. I know that we have to wait for prev gen to sell out (in Au this means the previous 2 gens, Arrow Lake is still widely available as new), but Apple slowed that process down to snail speed with the Neo.

https://github.com/ffmpegwasm/ffmpeg.wasm seem to have a discord, you can ask around there.

The motherboard too! Just order the latest one every year!

If you are not doing anything else, the Mac will last and will retain value better. The only gotcha with macs is ram and ssd size, but for solely school use 8GB/256GB is enough.

Majd tesztel a felhasználó. Én is ledöbbentem ezen, attól függetlenül, hogy teszteltem mindig amit írtam, de egyszer csak QA szólt, hogy ők már nem tesztelnek javításokat s rá max 1 évre QA el is tűnt (volt próbálkozás outsource-olni a dolgot, de azok csak zajt generáltak).

I got one and it is awesome for the price. (comparing to what were available for same price before) I do not consider devices above ~60USD as they are too expensive and got my phone/stemdeck for that.

Do not underestimate the longevity of iPads. They are used well after their sw update period. (Older iPhones do stay in circulation too because of the high price)