u/Iateonthebrakes

Does anyone else go through phases where they're completely obsessed with a hobby, convince themselves they need the latest thing, and then not even six months later they're onto something else?

That was pretty much my experience with the MSI Claw 8 AI+. When it came out, I thought it was one of the coolest pieces of tech I'd seen in a while, so I picked one up and honestly don't regret it. It's a great device and I've enjoyed using it whenever I decided to pick it up.

Admittedly, I didn't end up using it nearly as much as I thought I would, so it's spent most of its life sitting in its hard case looking pretty much the same as the day I bought it.

The funny part is that lately I've found myself going in a completely different direction. Most of my free time (and money) seems to be going toward sim racing and building out my home theater, which probably explains why I never got as much time on the Claw as I originally expected.

It got me thinking about how often we buy things because we're excited about a hobby at that particular moment, only for our interests to shift a few months later.

I'm not even sure what I'll do with it yet. Part of me wants to keep it because it's such a nice piece of hardware, but if I ever decided to let it go I'd probably just try to pass along a good deal to someone in the general handheld community, somewhere in the 500-600 USD range. Honestly, I'm not all that concerned about getting top dollar for it. If one of my friends suddenly got into handhelds, I'd probably just hand it over to them and call it a day.

Curious if anyone else has had a similar experience with handhelds or other tech purchases.

Does anyone else go through phases where they're completely obsessed with a hobby, convince themselves they need the latest thing, and then not even six months later they're onto something else?

That was pretty much my experience with the MSI Claw 8 AI+. When it came out, I thought it was one of the coolest pieces of tech I'd seen in a while, so I picked one up and honestly don't regret it. It's a great device and I've enjoyed using it whenever I decided to pick it up.

Admittedly, I didn't end up using it nearly as much as I thought I would, so it's spent most of its life sitting in its hard case looking pretty much the same as the day I bought it.

The funny part is that lately I've found myself going in a completely different direction. Most of my free time (and money) seems to be going toward sim racing and building out my home theater, which probably explains why I never got as much time on the Claw as I originally expected.

It got me thinking about how often we buy things because we're excited about a hobby at that particular moment, only for our interests to shift a few months later.

I'm not even sure what I'll do with it yet. Part of me wants to keep it because it's such a nice piece of hardware, but if I ever decided to let it go I'd probably just try to pass along a good deal to someone in the general handheld community, somewhere in the 700-800 CAD range. Honestly, I'm not all that concerned about getting top dollar for it. If one of my friends suddenly got into handhelds, I'd probably just hand it over to them and call it a day.

Curious if anyone else has had a similar experience with handhelds or other tech purchases.