Obviously we all have different friends and budgets to spend on things but who do you think are buying the millions of 900$ phones these companies are producing ? NO one?
Only the elite upper class? HARDLY!!!
well that's strange I only have 2 friends who have not purchased 900$+ phones, Anyone that owns a iPhone most likely paid more than 500-600 for it right? So I guess we can say iPhone users are a niche?
IF the average person does only media consumption and internet then they can just use their smart TV and do not need a desktop.
Its so strange to bundle so many types of users and computers to say what is mainstream and what this "mainstream" computer will be used for. I wonder what % of people use photoshop. are they niche crowd? the % of people who play games on their desktop a niche as well?
So was this huge gfx card and ddr4 shortage from people who didn't need to upgrade because all they do is spreadsheets? I wonder where all this technology advances are coming from if everyone is content with a web browser pc with dual core. Why are we using SSD? are they a niche too? regular hd works fine for spreadsheets and word so why do modern computers come standard with 6 cores and ssd?
Seems like everyone and their mom has a youtube channel, lots of those channels are with gamers twitch feeds etc etc. I'm 100% sure all these people would enjoy using a computer with more than dual core.
If i would have to use a smartphone or a smart tv for internet instead of my desktop pc, i would stop using the internet as i like it and be very unhappy with it.
Smartphones are great things to have around, but the ease of use limits the use cases.
Same thing goes for smart tv.
Great to quickly look up things, find directions, communicate, do some reading or watching a movie or listening to music. Yes, great devices for those kind of uses and smartphones excel at it because of being mobile.
But productivity is low on these devices. And there is a reason for that because smartphones or smart tv are not developed to have high efficiency and high productivity for creative work cases.
That is what a desktop or laptop pc is for.
If someone would want to buy a new computer, i would definitely advice a 6C/12T at least when budget allows it. Otherwise a 4C/8T 2400G or even a 4C/4T 220G from AMD would be minimum i would advice when the budget is tight. As reference i have my A10-6700 which is a 4C/4T. And it handles windows 10 quite well.
It was only for when i started gaming with more recent games that the cpu was at maximum utilization, causing fps drops lower than the refresh rate of my monitor.
I never have to wait for my machine to finish when doing normal jobs and not extreme number crunching. This machine is waiting for me to respond. And that is how a computer should act.
With smartphones, because of the user interface that is not the case. I am waiting for the smartphone to give me the option i desire before proceeding.