Such a shame. I do think Halo was very much already the spiritual successor to Marathon, and I know all the studios just want to have the big multiplayer game that everyone plays for years and years these days, but man was I excited when I first saw the teaser for this last year. I still name all my computer equipment after Marathon AIs.

I feel like this form factor makes sense more when it’s included with the laptop, like the Lenovo Yoga Book. If I was working from a normal laptop I don’t know where I’d put this in relation to it.

Agree 100%. From the trailer, at least, it looks like there’s a separate “Free Roam” mode, and it will otherwise be normal Mario Kart. Also looks like they’ll maybe have races that will span multiple tracks, which I can see being cool.

Also, even disregarding the inflation argument, video gaming is still one of the cheapest per hour hobbies.

My first “real” phone was the HTC Hero. Slow as heck and had a random trackball that I never used. Loved it though.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HTC_Hero_(CDMA_-_Sprint).jpg

I don’t think there was a single party I attended in high school where Rock Band or Guitar Hero wasn’t present. Such a great party game for players and spectators alike. The younger generations are really missing out.

Shadow of the Colossus was barely even a game, it was art. I don’t think I even played it for more than 20 hours total but just a simple masterpiece.

How do these exist but I’m still not able to find a 2560x1600 resolution monitor

Yeah, mostly just want the ultrawide for work. Don’t game super frequently, but don’t want it to be a blurry mess when I do

I hate the “5K2K” nomenclature. Why not just ultrawide 2160p.

Does look like a nice monitor though.

Anyone have any experience with the ExpertBook line? I’ve only ever heard recs for Lenovo’s and HP’s business lines.

So Intel is following AMD now with a super confusing naming scheme?

I’m surprised Microsoft ranked so low. They’ve really been pushing repairability in their recent models

Curious how the “VA smear” is on this. Good enough for productivity use?

One thing Jellyfin is way better at is offline viewing. I have frequent internet outages at my house and I’ve run into issues multiple times where Plex wouldn’t stream my own local media because it couldn’t connect to the internet. For this, Jellyfin has always just worked.

Easiest way to tell is to transcode something and see if your CPU spikes. If it’s offloaded to the GPU it shouldn’t.

Also make sure you have it configured correctly. On your Admin Dashboard under Playback > Transcoding, check that Intel QuickSync (QSV) is selected.

I have an N100 (Intel 12th gen) so I think your settings should be similar. For mine I have pretty much everything checked except for VP8, the two HEVC RExt options, and “Allow encoding in AV1 format”

I used to have similar issues, was due to my PC not being able to handle the transcoding. Enabling hardware acceleration with the correct settings fixed it for me.