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[–] riskable@programming.dev 14 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Folks here jest, but this business model is coming to PCs next. Bookmark my words!

(Literally, you can right-click the perma-link to this message and have quick access to it later so you can reply, "Damn, you were right!" And post the link to big PC vendors suddenly offering a similar services because DRAM and GPUs have become so expensive, normal people can't afford to buy PCs anymore)

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pomC1CfpC0

You're late to the party, GN released this a year ago. They've been doing this already, but because most people who PC game are semi-tech savy, build their own.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

To be fair I wouldn't be surprised if there's already a vendor for that. They already kinda do that with Chromebooks at schools, and work computers are sometimes lent out to workers including those with beefy hardware. Doing it strictly for gaming wouldn't be that much of a stretch lol

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 4 hours ago

Pretty common in corporations. In a company I used to work I got a new computer with the latest specs every year. In the one I'm now they own them and I have to fight to get upgrades.

[–] forrgott@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 5 hours ago

Can't recall the vendor, but I saw at least one that tried a rent-a-PC things aimed at gamers. But the price was egregious, and I wanna say they didn't even ship the hardware they advertised.

Anyway, point was it's already being tested in the wild...