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[–] wholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

No but I am paying for the accumulation of those parts no? Otherwise I’m not buying hardware.

And we know shoe on the other foot, if there was no performance increase, but a fancy marketing label, they’d be all over increasing the price for it.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You're paying for the overall performance of the product, not for specs of each discrete component by itself.

Yes, you also pay for whatever they decide is relevant to marketing.

[–] wholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

How is buying hardware based on specs not doing both?

To that end, that’s like saying apple doesn’t need to offer higher base specs on things like ssds and internal storage because the performance is the same.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Correct, there would be no reason for them to purposefully overspec their parts.

[–] wholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So then why wouldn’t I expect a discount on this v2 card?

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Because you're paying for the card as a whole, not discrete components.

[–] wholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No, you're not purchasing discrete components for use as discrete components.

[–] wholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If im not buying the cumulation of parts I don’t know what im buying.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You don't understand how the overall system as a whole differs from the discrete components in isolation?

[–] wholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 months ago

No…

You can’t buy a card without also buying all the individual composts though.

[–] wholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 months ago

Except I’m buying a card with objectively worse materials.