Reddit mentions of iBUYPOWER AM-FX03 Gaming Desktop - AMD FX-6300, NVIDIA GTX 960, 8GB DDR3, 1TB HDD, 24X DVDRW, 802.11ac Wi-Fi USB Adapter, Windows 10

A good gaming laptop should have a mobile i7 CPU and 960M or higher GPU minimum. What matters for CPUs is the physical core count (4 preferred), not thread count since games do not take advantage of hyper-threading. There i5s with two cores and two hyper-threaded cores which are no good, so always check if the i5 has two or four physical cores.

Laptop example: http://www.amazon.com/Dell-Inspiron-i7559-763BLK-Full-HD-GeForce/dp/B015PYYDMQ/ref=lp_8588812011_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1457300719&sr=1-1

A good gaming desktop on the other hand should have something like AMD FX6300 or higher, or Intel I5 (desktop version) for CPU and Nvidia GTX950 or higher, or AMD R9 370 or higher for GPU. GPU will have a bigger impact on performance in majority of games. A desktop will also in most cases offer a lot more performance than a similarly priced laptop.

Desktop example: http://www.amazon.com/iBuyPower-AM-FX03-FX-6300-Processor-Desktop/dp/B012AO2182/ref=sr_1_85?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1457300574&sr=1-85

> Minimum GPU is a GT 650. A GT 720 is considerably weaker. Sub x30 cards tend to be very low end. Which is probably why they seem to be less common, integrated graphics are catching up, but they're replacing low end cards like GeForce x10/x20 cards.

Alright. I apparently misread the stats. $779.98 then.

Regardless, as I implied, it's not like the game has to be purchased today. A year from now the price of that machine will be lower, and people can easily accidentally have a machine that can run the game.

> So you're arguing they could flip a switch and turn Windows 10 into Windows RT, and just get away with it? The backlash would be devastating to them. And for what? To sell more games on the Windows store?

No, you do it slowly. Over time. Like, for example, introducing a app package system that can be used to limit modding, but you don't force people to use it. Then you introduce an updating system that can be used to force people to accept updates they don't want... and definitely does do that already. Then you introduce a store and say "Oh, hey, there's this store here if y'know, you want to use it. It has all these nice extra features if you use this special package thing we developed. Oh and the package also can work on an entirely different market with no work for you!"

> Where'd you even get the coffin? Steam is a multi-billion dollar industry unto itself, and you're already predicting the inevitable rise of the Windows store over it.

It's not about the store. It's about UWP. But yes, the App Store has nowhere to go but up right now. Considering it'll be installed on 100% of Windows PCs, while Steam will be on, likely, less than 50% of those... yeah. I could see Windows taking over.