what’s baffling is that modular desktops are probably a better long-term money making strategy for hardware makers. When you can cycle gear with ease - the temptation to try something new will be bigger.
Next step, modular desktops as a concept will die, probably.
I hope people like locked-down black boxes they can’t upgrade and can’t run their own OS on in the future, so byebye Linux and BSD in that scenario outside of niche devices.
BilSabab@lemmy.world 1 day ago
lordbritishbusiness@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The AI builders must be buying all the fab time and components to go to the build outs.
Desktops will go first and fade as the entire production chain stops.
Notebooks will be next, at least PC parts have a premium price, notebooks are too cheap to avoid it for long. Game consoles will face the same pressure.
The supply shock is going to be as bad as COVID.
DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf 1 day ago
The supply shock is going to be as bad as COVID.
- No, it’ll be worse, it’ll be straight-up apocalyptic. GenAI grifters are trying to cause an apocalypse.
pycorax@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
What makes you think that? Even as prices rise, people are still buying and building PCs.
DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf 1 day ago
Eventual discontinuation of more PC parts to appease the AI grifters until all that’s left for consumers is mini PCs or ARM black boxes.
pycorax@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
But that hasn’t happened at all and there’s no evidence of that happening?
DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf 23 hours ago
I’m just speculating on what could happen if this stuff gets worse.
ManOMorphos@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Chinese companies are most likely going to fill at least some of the void that the other companies will be leaving to chase AI hype. It won’t necessarily be cheap though.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 16 hours ago
You could just run Linux on a 2009 thinkpad. Oh no, I will have to buy even cheaper machines to run Linux.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
At the same time, just expanding a device with new parts is a far cheaper way to get more performance than buying a new device - after all, whatever price problem there is with some kinds of parts, it will be the same whether they’re sold as lose parts or as part of a device.
Poor working class young me in a poorer European country after getting his first PC quickly found out that to get more a more powerful machine he had to start upgrading that machine because there wasn’t money to buy a whole new one every couple of years.
My point is that it might very well yield the very opposite effect of what you describe - buying whole devices to replace older models becomes too expensive so people favor more expandable devices - because those can have their performance improved with just some new parts, which are cheaper than getting a whole new device - and the market just responds to that.
I think people in countries which until recently are wealthier, such as the US, are far too used to the mindset of “throw the old one out and but a new one” which is not at all the mindset of people in places were resources are constrained or require a lot bigger fraction of people’s income to buy.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 22 hours ago
didn’t actually read the article, but the Micron/Crucial announcement was about leaving the DIY direct market, as opposed to not keeping supply deals with OEMs. Though new contracts with them will be higher.