I have a feeling it’s going to be the norm for the next few years. I think we are about to enter a personal computer dark age.
As long am4 and 12th gen survives on these dark times we got chances of getting through this
Xitter comments indicate that the PCs should be of sufficient spec to achieve a good sell value. So if it’s not Win 11 compatible then Sofmap can’t price it in hopes to resell them according to the social media responder.
I am out of the loop and the article didn’t provide the answers. I get the limited supply, but what PC shortage? Is this only impacting Japan? I see many advertisements in the USA for new PCs.
There may not be a problem of Japan itself, but the act of this specific company in Japan that’s responding to the “induced” PC hardware crisis. The induced doesn’t mean that’s some natural development (such as people is not buying PC anymore) but because critical components and materials (such as GPU/ram/SSD) are currently absorbed by the ongoing AI bubble eating and eating resources that are key for PC manufacturing.
I get the prices are going up, and DDR5 is hard to get. There are still many computers on the shelves locally.
Why is this specific company in Japan failing to get computers when so many others are doing an decent job of it?
Stores in this district also sell used devices. Due to the price of new hardware, people are holding on to their new hardware and do not sell it.
I have a bunch of old PC parts from my old self builds, ISA modems and sound cards, AGP/VLB graphics cards (no voodoo tho sadly), IDE drives, various 30+ pin SIMMs and DIMMs, so many cables. I was saving them all to make some kinda art but never got around to it, kinda glad I didn’t now, even if they’re worthless I think it’d be fun to mess around with again, those old sound cards had some pretty nice chips on them. Sadly I did use a 386 motherboard as a candle holder so that one probably won’t work lol.
If my pc dies I’m going to perish with it
