Let’s go shopping!
It’s a very rare and special time in the world of the PC. We’re witnessing above-average generational performance leaps with GPUs, a remarkable battle for the CPU space well into its third year, exciting new PCIe 4 SSDs, motherboards with loads of lanes, monitors with extreme specs, and RAM hitting ridiculous speeds. It’s wonderful. Well, it could be wonderful. But it’s not. Because you just can’t buy a lot of this stuff without a long wait, and/or some compromise on what you really wanted. You know the situation. You may well be on a waiting list for something. Odds are, you are. We’ve covered this from a few angles this month. Joel (page 17), Jared (page 19) and Mark (page 64) look at the issue, the immediate effects and the complex…