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I used to always buy a K series chipset even though I never used the iGPU. It's literally like a 50-70 dollar savings depending on the chipset going from K to KF. I figured I'd rather have it for troubleshooting and not need it, rather than need it and not have it - but if you're using the iGPU chances are your dGPU is fucked in some capacity, so it's really pointless when you're trying to troubleshoot a graphics card problem.

There genuinely are cheap versions of stuff (like the Amazon basics hand plane) that suck so much they'll ruin the fun in something. But if you pick anything with a decent name in most hobbies, you'll be okay.

this is why I say that "ti" stands for "totally ignorant" please don't listen to them op, if you haven't trained up on models 300 to 2300 variants m-nl to qq-pp then you're probably just going to hurt yourself and your hobbythingcraft

As a counter example, I bought a $100 camera from a pharmacy when I was 15 that took low to mid quality photos and I was so happy with it. I learned about focus, bokeh, framing, etc despite having like 6 preset settings, and that got me into photography. Later I bought a low end DSLR and took 1000 pictures a day during the summer.

For wood carving a $60 set of knives was enough to get me into the hobby, now I get to spend too much money on stuff.

Cheap options can be very helpful to find out if you like something.

Because I take on a new hobby like every five years, and sometimes give up before then, I generally recommend for people like me that you start out with the cheapest possible option and work your way up from there.

But my biggest hobbies are art, writing, fancy writing, preserves, baking, and game dev, so they don't rely require much in the form of materials