We quickly being put back into a pre 80’s PC as a luxury era.
“Please buy our product, don’t wait for prices to drop. We need to sell at current prices to maintain stock valuation.”
Osborne effect, mutated.
Exactly. Why should anyone believe what the RAM cartel says? It’s in their best interest to lie about this.
When price and supply are in the hands of the company with currently infinite demand, why wpuld you kill the gold rush?
Not like you’ll have a choice when your hardware fails and you want to keep using your PC.
Benefits of being a tech hoarder. I’ve got backups. And an unexpected benefit of the slowing of tech advancement is that stuff that’s 10+ years old still holds up pretty well.
Yep. I have three full PCs and two laptops.
AND spare parts left over.Only one of them is any good but all are usable and i can do some cannibalizing to keep the good one going for a bit.
Yeah my “new” pc is even pretty old at this point, but I have like 3 desktops from the Haswell era, and they all still work just fine.
And I have a gaggle of coffee lake era thinkpads and dell precision laptops that I dumpster dove right after my shift when I used to work in IT lol. One small plus to giant multinational companies not giving a fuck about the environment I guess. Just had to replace drives and sometimes keyboards or displays on my those.
Oh for sure, my stuff is all garbage except my main rig, which is still AM4. My laptops are from 2012/2013 lmao
Rescuing and actually using corp ewaste is so cool!
Oh yeah those things are great. Used the precision when I went back to school to finish up a degree and is still my primary laptop, a thinkpad for my 3d printers, another thinkpad as a Jellyfin server, and my dad used the other precision for a few years, but now that just sits as a backup laptop at my parents house.
Some of my coworkers sold some of the laptops, but that kind of sketched me out because they have “Property of [company I used to work at] Serial No.######” laser etched on top lol
At this point, if my RAM fails I’m done. Wake me when the industry collapses.
So hold your breath for 4 years, got it. No problem
Of course they would say that?
Eh, we’ll see how that will work out for them in the medium term. It all rests on how much the Trump administration is willing to pour into the AI around tripping scam to keep it going. Once that money stops, all of that stuff collapses quickly. IMO should be soon, they bailed out Japan such that they don’t sell their US bonds, because that would be catastrophic for the Trump administration.
