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Cake day: December 6th, 2023

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  • This was in the days I didn’t know much about computers. I paid $1700 for a new 2017 4K iMac, with 16GB RAM and 1TB HDD. I was about 14.

    I now regret that choice. The HDD made things slow and MacOS limited the games I could run. I could’ve gotten 3x the GPU power and 1.5x the CPU power plus expandability if I just built a PC instead.

    I got it because my friend at the time had an iMac, my family and school almost exclusively used Macs, and I’ve never actually seen a gaming PC at that point. I even had no idea what a GPU was at the time.

    Luckily my next computer was one that I did extensive research into and am very satisfied with. It’s an Asus ROG Strix G15 Advantage Edition. For under $2K, it had a high end CPU, GPU, good battery life for a gaming laptop, and replaceable storage and RAM.