Maybe I should upgrade some stuff. The games I play are usually pretty easy to run on a medium level laptop but having a good monitor and mouse wouldn't hurt. One day I'll probably upgrade to a good desktop but until then I can ride with my laptop.
Certain hardware like monitors and mice have reached a peak-level of affordability and quality in the last... 3-8 years, give or take.
Monitors were in a weird spot for a while, where it seemed just out of reach to min-max for optimal quality, but some newer and reasonably cost effective tech-innovations seem to have address a lot of those issues.
It probably also helps that consumers have been adopting 4k enough to broaden the market so that 2k displays can slide down to the mid-tier on price, while sacrificing very little on display quality (at least for the majority of gamers).
Personally I stay away from NVME drives, they still get too hot and won't last the test of time, for gaming purposes SATA speeds are way more than enough.
Maybe I should upgrade some stuff. The games I play are usually pretty easy to run on a medium level laptop but having a good monitor and mouse wouldn't hurt. One day I'll probably upgrade to a good desktop but until then I can ride with my laptop.
Certain hardware like monitors and mice have reached a peak-level of affordability and quality in the last... 3-8 years, give or take.
Monitors were in a weird spot for a while, where it seemed just out of reach to min-max for optimal quality, but some newer and reasonably cost effective tech-innovations seem to have address a lot of those issues.
It probably also helps that consumers have been adopting 4k enough to broaden the market so that 2k displays can slide down to the mid-tier on price, while sacrificing very little on display quality (at least for the majority of gamers).
Personally I stay away from NVME drives, they still get too hot and won't last the test of time, for gaming purposes SATA speeds are way more than enough.
I found a 32", 2k monitor in the open-box bin for $100. Steal of a find, but it ended up costing almost a grand.