^ Why do people keep churning out these ridiculous
"Either you need a Threadripper or you should go buy a tablet" False Dilemma posts? Back in the real world, who the hell wants spend 40-50 hours per week editing large spreadsheets / multi-page documents / presentations, etc, on a 7-14" screen or 10ft away from a TV? Likewise "desks" were invented for a reason. Chrome OS's cut-down office suites and printer / scanner drivers are significantly inferior to Windows, lack of local storage space & RAM, lack of 3rd party support software, touch-screens are horrible to type any large input on, and the whole experience of plugging keyb + mouse + monitor into a tablet isn't remotely the same as even a 5 year old desktop for things like fluid ALT-TABBing back & forth between browser (research) and Word (typing out research)...
For those struggling with this - desktops are
all about the ergonomics / functionality. Many people buy desktops for the screen size alone without ending up spending double on paying a laptop premium, then having to buy a monitor, docking station, hub, etc, on top. And yes everything from ATX to M-ITX is a desktop PC. This isn't 1997. CineBench e-peen numbers don't even enter the equation at any stage for the average non-enthusiast. That's what real mainstream is. There is literally nothing you can do on an i5-8400 / R5 2600 that you can't on an i3-8100 / R5 2400G in Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Firefox, Chome, VLC, etc. That hasn't even changed much from 2008 vs 2018 so why everyone thinks completely trivial tasks like "typing in Word" will grind to a halt in the next couple of years is beyond me. Even photo editing & video encoding is now GPU accelerated.
Aside from the fact only a minority buy $900 phones, who says blowing $600 per CPU whether they need it or not is some "clever" build vs a gamer buying a $200 CPU and perhaps spending the additional +$400 saved on a GTX1070Ti instead of a GTX1060, a 1TB SSD instead of a 256GB and a new gaming mouse? Or an office of 12x PC's buying $100-$130 CPU then spending the $5.6k-$6.0k saved on new monitor's all round plus a new laser printer? Or a HTPC buying a $50-$100 CPU and spending the +$500 upgrading 2x 4TB NAS drives to 2x 10TB? Some very strange "advice" here if the decision to buy x hardware involves looking at literally everything else except the user's actual requirements...
LOL. "VR-TV" has already flopped even harder than 3D-TV precisely because in the real world (ie, mainstream), a family of 4x would rather just buy a decent TV than spend the best part of $10k on 4x matching headsets + 4x high-end PC's to all sit there looking like complete dorks when they invite friends over to watch a movie and thus will need that TV anyway... That and complete lack of bandwidth / cost / storage space. Most people with Netflix want more decent things to watch, not watch their subscription costs swell to pay for the Yottabytes of storage required to film everything in 360 spherical (which isn't even possible if you understand
what's behind the camera of even simple shots).
Real mainstream = anyone who doesn't spend all day on tech forums arguing what mainstream is. Honestly, if everyone bought cars like some enthusiasts here demand main-streamers buy CPU's, then by 2024 everyone will either own a Porsche or a unicycle with absolutely nothing "permitted" in between...