<rant> Launch and Hardware

There's nothing original about any of this. My good friend Steve of Seopher.com started his rant-acuo-us section, ranting about all the little things that manage to piss him off in

There's nothing original about any of this. My good friend Steve of Seopher.com started his rant-acuo-us section, ranting about all the little things that manage to piss him off in the world.

I thought it was a little unfair if he was the only one that got to outlet. In fact, it ground my gears that here I am, with all this infrastructure to outlet my woes and I'm not doing it and he is. After all, isn't this what' the internet is for? To bitch about movies and share pornography? Hell yeah.

So here I am: like a midget from Mexico with an innate hatred for tall people; like an eagle with just one wing and a thirst for blood; like an army of colour-blind red ants that... erm... I'm losing my trail of thought.

On with the abuse. I hate computer hardware.

Don't get me wrong, I love using and programming for computers but as with most technology, it's nigh on impossible to stay up to date on hardware unless you're a millionaire.

Every month there are probably 4 different graphics card models released every month (excluding brands), each promising faster, better, sexier graphics. But to me, buying a decent graphics card should be much like finding a woman. You want her fast and sexy but more importantly she needs to be CHEAP! (Harri, if you're reading this, I'm not referring to you!!) Especially when she's not going to be any good by next month. There's an identical parallel with CPUs.

What is it that drives this relentless requirement for that new 898434950XTXTXXXX Ultra graphics card when it comes out next week? Benchmarks.

Again, don't get me wrong. I love reading benchmarks. When you read through a line-up of new technology you have that gleam in your eye saying, when I'm richer, all of this will be mine. It's the the same concept as people that watch MTV Cribs adopt. Benchmarking sites like TomsHardwareGuide and Anandtech ca afford to buy all this shit.

In fact a lot of the time, they're given the stuff to test by the people that make it. Why won't someone give me a pair of £5000 prototype graphics cards and a gallon of liquid nitrogen for testing?

What makes it worse is they test the graphics cards/CPUs/etc with a stellar testbed. I'm talking super PC equipment that is just too damned expensive for other people to buy so even if they do shell out all the money in the world for the card featured in the benchmark, the rest of their PC just won't keep up with the benchmarking system and that's a little unfair.

What pisses me off most about all of this is there's no clean-cut solution for fixing this, short of me falling into a huge vat of get-rich-quick-soup and drinking it all in. It is good that technology is improving. They do have to spend money to make the money.

Well that's me done for now. I've conceded that hardware is expensive but for a reason. Money is the real evil here. Until next time...

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