Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Unexpected Trends at Computex 2023”.
Has there been any Tech Trend, good or otherwise, from the different vendors that surprised you this year? I didn’t expect behind the motherboard. You know hidden connectors to get so much attention. It feels like the kind of thing we could have done forever ago and didn’t so. I I just not not the not the PC Community but like connectors on back.
Another board is not a new thing. No, no! Not at all it’s a new thing to like gaming, PCs, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah and uh, I’m uh yeah, I’m I’m! I don’t know. If I’m excited for it like, we definitely need to see some new case designs to really get the most out of it, but I’m not not excited for it.
Definitely it surprised me, I yeah, I think it’s pretty cool um here, okay, another tech Trend, uh. I am amazed by the number of companies getting into like Sim racing Tech, Cooler Master, shoulder off a chair that has been weird hasn’t. It EK showed off this entire 25 000 kit. That was very surprising EK of all. I yeah I kept asking people like your shirt was EK. It wasn’t like someone else how many people are buying like multi-access.
I know there’s absolutely for it, but like shut up you’d think it would support like two Brands, total or something yeah, not not the amount that are in it like it’s it’s one of those things where, like I know what tooling costs yeah it costs a lot. You got to be selling like thousands of something to make it make sense to manufacture it well, sort of, depending on the price, gibrom and full playing chat said it really took off with the pandemic. So I agree especially like F1 and stuff Sim racing at home. Like the actual professional drivers were doing it on stream and stuff – oh my God, who is spending that kind of money on this sort of thing? Also it’s sort of over and we’re already seeing consumer Trends setting back to what they were before.
I just I don’t know, I just don’t get it like I’m, like I’m thinking about the amount of the amount of money I would have to be earning to spend 25 000 on a toy and part of it, because you’re going to end up investing more or Spending, I should be saying you’re going to end up spending more for sure, because that’s like where you start right, yeah and no, the pro drivers are not buying some kit from Ek or some chair from Cooler Master like I just crazy stuff yeah. They are getting some consultant to come in and build them like a very custom like d-box setup or whatever else right like I, just people like it’s a hobby like sure what an insane hobby it takes up so much space, though like wow, I just and yes, Yes, I know they start at much much lower prices for for DIY kits. I just it’s one of those things. It’S like uh, it’s like an Alienware laptop in theory. These things exist or in theory, people are buying them, otherwise they wouldn’t exist, but I’ve never seen one yeah and – and I I have seen an Alienware laptop now, I’m talking more like back when I was working at NCIX 10 years ago.
You know Alienware had five thousand six thousand dollar laptops back then, and they were obviously I mean even the desktops. You know I would look at it and I’d go. Alienware is a brand of computers, obviously, otherwise they wouldn’t have a website, but I’ve never seen one.
You know I’ve never seen an actual gamer gaming on one of these, and so it’s the same thing like these Sim. These Sim setups, it’s the kind of thing we build per spectacle or like dead mouse, had one, but how many dead mouses are there in the world, people with the means the space and the passion for gaming. They can’t they just can’t be that many and Shroff and float plane chat, says in all caps. It’S cheaper than actually Hobby racing IRL.
It’S like okay! Well, I wouldn’t do that either. That sounds really expensive. Exactly I’m consuming, I mean uh yeah I uh and – and I I you know what this is one of those things where I think I just have to acknowledge that as not a car enthusiast, I will never be able to put myself into the headspace of a Car Enthusiast I mean I, I know for a fact that Jake has relatively limited space compared to someone like dead mouse, and he still feels it’s a high enough priority to have a SIM racing set up in his computer room. Yes same for Ed, we saw this in their extreme Tech upgrades. So clearly it’s a thing about.
Like 25 000 EK, rig yeah, that seems outlandish. Yeah .