My friend works for Sony. He had a fancy gaming laptop with an extern video card / CD drive (special pre-usb 3.0 port). This is going back 5-8 years ago. The details that machine could do, at full HD, was crazy. He showed me JIT (just in time) loading artifacting, that I would have never noticed, as it loaded and cleared RAM. The basic specs of the game would never run on my machine, and would have been horrible if it did.
Fast forward to today, and Alienware now has a box for ~$500 that will run things great for you (and makes the Mac Mini look a bit silly.) Upgrade to an SSD and you can speed up your load times like crazy. You can even get a Linux version (I love Mac/Linux, so that is a dream come true for me).
tl;dr - Previous advances made beautiful differences at an ugly price.
02-17-2017 12:34 AM