>You can use lower grade hardware than that. But how is the user experience? It depends on the software. When the developers are targeting the "average user",

>You can use lower grade hardware than that. But how is the user experience? It depends on the software. When the developers are targeting the "average user", then everyone who uses hardware that's significantly older than average will be punished accordingly. This doesn't mean it's actually hard to support that old hardware, it just means that performance isn't a priority. If everyone used old hardware for longer, then the software would support old hardware better. Also, latency has been going up over time rather than down: https://danluu.com/input-lag/ https://danluu.com/input-lag/ This is more of a social problem than a technical one.