Which One Should I Buy

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Which One Should I Buy

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OH. MY. GOD. The absolute AUDACITY of comparing a modern gaming PC to an ancient steam engine! 💀

Look at this RIDICULOUS comparison! On the left, we have our precious little gaming cube that sips electricity like a refined gentleman at high tea. Meanwhile, on the right? A LITERAL INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION MONSTROSITY that requires its own ZIP CODE and probably violates several environmental treaties!

The boot time comparison is sending me to another dimension! Your PC: "Give me 20 seconds and I'll run Cyberpunk." The steam engine: "Excuse me sir, I'll need 40 MINUTES and a team of coal-shoveling minions before I can even THINK about doing anything useful."

This is basically every software engineer trying to explain to management why we need to upgrade our legacy systems. "But it still works, right?" BARELY, KAREN. BARELY.

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