--- title: 5 PC hardware downgrades the industry disguised as... description: PC hardware has regressed in several key areas despite being marketed as progress. Motherboard makers are cutting I/O ports and skimping on high-speed USB and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/5-pc-hardware-downgrades-the-industry-disguised-as-progress--owg1kfgc4 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 5 PC hardware downgrades the industry disguised as "progress" | daily.dev og:description: PC hardware has regressed in several key areas despite being marketed as progress. Motherboard makers are cutting I/O ports and skimping on high-speed USB and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/5-pc-hardware-downgrades-the-industry-disguised-as-progress--owg1kfgc4 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/OWg1KFgC4.png og:image:alt: 5 PC hardware downgrades the industry disguised as "progress" og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 5 PC hardware downgrades the industry disguised as "progress" **[XDA Developers](https://daily.dev/sources/xda-developers)** · 5 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary PC hardware has regressed in several key areas despite being marketed as progress. Motherboard makers are cutting I/O ports and skimping on high-speed USB and multi-gig Ethernet on budget boards. Soldered RAM in laptops and compact PCs eliminates upgradability. Nvidia and others are leaning on AI-generated frames instead of raw hardware improvements. High-end GPUs like the RTX 5080 ship with only 16GB VRAM at $1,000+ price points, while the budget GPU segment has effectively been priced out of existence, with entry-level cards now starting at $400+. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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