Comments on: 3 Simple Guidelines For Making Better Hardware Purchases http://www.gameproducer.net/2007/08/28/3-simple-guidelines-for-making-better-hardware-purchases/ I bake games. Indie style. Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:09:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Juuso - Game Producer http://www.gameproducer.net/2007/08/28/3-simple-guidelines-for-making-better-hardware-purchases/comment-page-1/#comment-114371 Juuso - Game Producer Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:27:45 +0000 http://www.gameproducer.net/2007/08/28/3-simple-guidelines-for-making-better-hardware-purchases/#comment-114371 dkah: yeh, true - it's good to find out those... but I think it's also important not to repeat that over and over. Price versus quality counts. dkah: yeh, true – it’s good to find out those… but I think it’s also important not to repeat that over and over. Price versus quality counts.

]]> By: dkah http://www.gameproducer.net/2007/08/28/3-simple-guidelines-for-making-better-hardware-purchases/comment-page-1/#comment-114370 dkah Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:16:57 +0000 http://www.gameproducer.net/2007/08/28/3-simple-guidelines-for-making-better-hardware-purchases/#comment-114370 For things that come in different sizes, like harddisks, its important to find the low point. Prizes do not go up linearly. At some point a little more buys you a lot more, but at the next step you get less again. It is worth to buy exactly at this low point, because you get most value for money. For my harddisk I paid 4$ for 50 GB more, still 50 more would have cost me 20$. This is also the point where the hardware has the biggest lasting power for a reasonable prize. They are out of the expensive toy phase and not yet into the old garbage can. For things that come in different sizes, like harddisks, its important to find the low point. Prizes do not go up linearly. At some point a little more buys you a lot more, but at the next step you get less again. It is worth to buy exactly at this low point, because you get most value for money. For my harddisk I paid 4$ for 50 GB more, still 50 more would have cost me 20$. This is also the point where the hardware has the biggest lasting power for a reasonable prize. They are out of the expensive toy phase and not yet into the old garbage can.

]]> By: Blueskied http://www.gameproducer.net/2007/08/28/3-simple-guidelines-for-making-better-hardware-purchases/comment-page-1/#comment-114339 Blueskied Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:22:37 +0000 http://www.gameproducer.net/2007/08/28/3-simple-guidelines-for-making-better-hardware-purchases/#comment-114339 Ah ok, thought i had missed another technical advancement. Ah ok, thought i had missed another technical advancement.

]]> By: Juuso - Game Producer http://www.gameproducer.net/2007/08/28/3-simple-guidelines-for-making-better-hardware-purchases/comment-page-1/#comment-114322 Juuso - Game Producer Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:59:50 +0000 http://www.gameproducer.net/2007/08/28/3-simple-guidelines-for-making-better-hardware-purchases/#comment-114322 Argh, I meant from CRT to TFT/LCD. Good catch. Argh, I meant from CRT to TFT/LCD. Good catch.

]]> By: Blueskied http://www.gameproducer.net/2007/08/28/3-simple-guidelines-for-making-better-hardware-purchases/comment-page-1/#comment-114313 Blueskied Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:24:42 +0000 http://www.gameproducer.net/2007/08/28/3-simple-guidelines-for-making-better-hardware-purchases/#comment-114313 You switched from TFT to LCD? Is there a difference? I thought they are synonyms. You switched from TFT to LCD?
Is there a difference? I thought they are synonyms.

]]> By: Jake Birkett http://www.gameproducer.net/2007/08/28/3-simple-guidelines-for-making-better-hardware-purchases/comment-page-1/#comment-114279 Jake Birkett Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:58:36 +0000 http://www.gameproducer.net/2007/08/28/3-simple-guidelines-for-making-better-hardware-purchases/#comment-114279 I do exactly ther same. I still have a CRT because I'm under the illusion that I still have enough time to play games and that 3D games are best on a CRT. In reality I hardly ever play PC games and should just get a big TFT! The thing is I want to make sure that I can run it with quite a big font as I hate squinting at tiny writing which is in a TFT's "natural resolution" I do exactly ther same.

I still have a CRT because I’m under the illusion that I still have enough time to play games and that 3D games are best on a CRT. In reality I hardly ever play PC games and should just get a big TFT! The thing is I want to make sure that I can run it with quite a big font as I hate squinting at tiny writing which is in a TFT’s “natural resolution”

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