I have a Turion X2 HP from 2007 and a Sandy Bridge HP EliteBook from 2010. Both work beautifully in every respect and still see regular use around the house.
My recent Ryzen Pavilion 13 was also an amazing laptop for the money.
Sold my Fury Maxx last year for $500 on eBay. Maybe I should have waited, haha.:p
Edit: Nevermind. After checking Sold listing, I've apparently set the bar over the past year. :D
I feel like all of the negatives that x86 had 20 years ago have been either mitigated or outright fixed.
The power-efficiency argument is mostly out the window now already - and that's with AMD tuning-down architectures that were designed for the mid-to-HPC end markets; I have to imagine that...
Wah-wah, everything sucks. Nothings is a good deal for a fun tinker. Wahhh.
We can all thank operations like this for the modern CPUs we buy not costing more than they do; if overstock inventory never found a home and needed to be written off, you can bet those losses would be passed on to...
It's this guy here; https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CMPXQ2RK
I spent WEEKS looking for a case that was compact, didn't look stupid, and would still fit a decently sized GPU and PSU. Very happy with it.
It's alright - AMD can lay claim to basically every x86 design breakthrough since Intel put out MMX almost 30 years ago... And in a market that has turned against x86, a thinning herd that results in AMD being the lone remaining steward is a good thing; fighting over a shrinking pie is bad for...