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>the most annoying thing about phones is the fact that the software selection is ass for no reason

Actually, you could just ignore that shit now, I'm no fan of Samsung phones (Sony Xperia 4ever), but for example, you can use DeX and a $20 dock, and you essentially have a desktop, using the flagship CPUs found on phones like the 8 Gen 3 or 8 Elite which can rival some older midrange gaming laptops, you could very potentially just use Winlator and run an enclosed Windows environment - on your phone! No computer needed, these days I find ultra books and weak computers to be silly investments in the world of hilariously powerful ray-tracing capable phones.

>all my VSTs work the same on my laptop from 2015

Absolutely, but it always helps to have a faster computer, especially if you're into making something like psychedelic rock and need to make massive dynamic range productions with a lot of FX.


>gaming hasn't made me need to buy a new machine in a while

Depends on person to person - personally I'd be upgrading every year if I could, just for gaming alone, but I also have a wife in my dreams so maybe this hypothetical gaming setup would sit collecting dust in my dream world as I'd have to spend my time raising kids instead of gaming

>most image editing I'd do has no need for a particularly fast machine either, but I also put up with an old ass version of Photoshop on a 1999 iMac for ages so...

I am a photographer, AI denoise on Lightroom and Darktable is still so slow on even modern machines it makes me want to kill myself. Figuratively. It helps that I can't afford a nice camera though, if I had a medium-format 108-megapixel camera or one of those fancy 61-megapixel Sony mirrorless cameras I'd probably have to actually kill myself waiting for the editor to denoise a 72000 x 32000 image. Literally.

>vfx and sculpting, I'd sure hope wherever I worked spent the money on a new machine for me ( ´ω`)

Well, this discounts the people that do such things as a hobby, or an artform, all the YTPMV/otoMAD people do crazy shit Hollywood artists dream of being able to do on 2013 Shit pads because they can't afford better, I've seen the setup of one of those people, one of them had recently done some gachimuchi figurine stop-motion stuff, it was done with green cloth and a Canon Rebel from 2009 for the source material, off-loaded to what I believe is a T-series Lenovo running pirated After Effects.