>17 year old cousin texts me because im known as the tech guy in the family
>he tells me he has saved up 2900 bucks and needs to choose what fancy tech to get
>excited.mp4
>he presents me with two options
>opt 1 is an iPhone 13 pro, iPad air, apple watch (7), and airpods pro.
>opt 2 is a reddit tier alienware prebuilt with a ryzen 5800x, 3060 ti, 256 gb ssd, 32 gigs ram, plus some corsair keyboard mouse combo and a view sonic 1440p gaming monitor
Can I fix him or is he retarded for life
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c'mon gramps
let him enjoy wasting his youth like every kid deserves
opt 2 is the least evil option. in this cruel world you have to make the pragmatic decisions.
help him build a gaming pc
Option 2, anything is better than apple trash.
This is your opportunity to educate him
Legion 5 or 7 Pro
Ayylmaoware is shit and he will be turned off PCs with how bad it overheats.
He can have both
iPhone se, Apple watch series 3, Airpods 2nd generation, last generation iPad air, and use the rest of the money to help him build an optiplex sleeper with chinkshit peripherals and whatever monitor is under 200 and doesn't completely suck
>iphone se, apple watch series 3, airpods second gen
If he's like any other 17 year old, he probably has an iPhone 12 pro, the last apple watch model, and the second generation airpods and the only reason he's upgrading is to not look like a poorfag at school.
Tech illiterates can't build their own shit
Go with the Alienware
Your point about alienware still stands but gaming laptops have the shittiest cooling too
at least the newer alienware models are improving a bit in airflow, but a laptop is flawed by design
opt2 make sure he can dual boot to linux
apple trash can't boot linux
Sounds like he's got two choices
Put together a list of better parts and send that to him.
offer to teach him to build his own pc, come on
he should just wait gpu prices are going down ethereum hits POS in june, rtx 4000 series, intel arc GPUs just around the corner raptor lake zen 4 new next generation noctua nh-d15 I wouldn't build a $3000 PC before Q3 at the earliest
send him a link to /pcbg/ and tell him to buy a used optiplex and put a GTX 1050 in it
Option 2 is not a complete waste of money.
I hate you and think you're a terrible human being.
this
>ethereum hits POS in june
People still fall for this. ETH has been saying this for years now.
>alienware prebuilt
yep, that was definitely designed to take $3000 from a 17 year old
>Overbuying the CPU
Why does every single person do this for their first gaming PC?
It's not overbuying if you're playing a CPU intensive game like Factorio or Minecrap
>ethereum hits POS in june
two more months trust the plan
>Factorio
he needs to build an EATX threadripper workstation for that
Yes it is. CPU bound games are fucking ancient and an OC'd nalahem would run them fine with an hd 6XXX.
>glass box
>rgb faggotry
>tiny ass intakes
>120mm AIO
>full of Dell's proprietary ewaste motherboard psu and other parts
In 1 minute I find this review and the VRMs get so hot the whole thing crashes and the uploader says he's getting an exchange already. lol please do not let your cousin buy these shitboxes there is still hope for him maybe
I can't imagine being a teenager in this climate....
Tell him to buy a prebuilt from cyberpower. You can get a 5900x+ 3070ti for 2500$ and it has alot of name brand parts. Anything but fucking dell shit. It is a 500$ markup when buying a prebuilt if you're too retarded to buy and build yourself
Couldn't you build him a PC of the same caliber for like 1k less