Comment by xnx
1 year ago
Some macro-trends that must have contributed:
* Rise of social media
* Popularity of short-form video
* Significant deceleration in single-core performance gains
* Focus on fashion (e.g. colored LEDs) over performance in computers
* Popularity of smartphones/consoles
>Focus on fashion
People have been tricking out their rigs with fancy lighting since the beginning, it's not a new development.
Definitely not new, but a lot more prevalent now. Photos from early 2000s LAN parties are dominated by beige boxes.
Exactly: it was a lot less common to customise your case when it required a drill and a Dremel saw.
I assume it is because DIY PCs plateaued two decades ago. Now it's all Macs, mobiles, and consoles.
Agree. The most significant improvement in a long time has been has been SSDs. Was cool to have lived through a period where compute power was delivering real-world 2x performance every 18 months.