Comment by wtallis
3 days ago
The Steam Hardware Survey is an incredibly valuable resource, what with it being freely-available, constantly updated, and sourced from a population that makes its sampling biases generally easy to identify and understand. It and the Backblaze hard drive data are almost unique in how they provide real, large-scale data about computer hardware.
It's interesting how you can practically tell how many people have a specific processor nowadays (12 core = 5900,7900,9900x, 14 core = i5 14600k, 245, 20 core = i7 etc)
Pretty cool
It has his flaws though and is somewhat archaic. I emailed Gabe about this a while back but got no response.
Gosh he must've been busy with something
No it is not, it just shows what Chinese bot farm emulators are configured at the moment.
Why would any bot farm complete this survey?
They're not, it's pulled from the application.
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