Comment on RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders
brsrklf@jlai.lu 10 hours agoProbably but with all the idiots fueled by sunken costs and desperate to prove they were right to invest, it could still last a long time.
I built a decent PC a couple years ago, and I don’t need to upgrade often since I don’t really care about cutting edge. So I kinda dodged a bullet, but, this sucks.
Probably but with all the idiots fueled by sunken costs and desperate to prove they were right to invest, it could still last a long time.
not necessarily with hardware though. now they are flush with investments and have holes burning in their pockets. they may artificially extend the bubble, but rapid hardware expansion will be the first thing to slow down or stop.
errer@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Honestly the incentive to “upgrade” a gaming PC the past decade is really weak. Aside from a few AAA titles almost all games run just fine on old hardware. Particularly if you ditch Windows.
So let’s just all refuse to buy this overpriced shit. The same price increases have already happened to GPUs and gamers felt like they “needed” to pay those prices still, nah fuck that, don’t give these greedy pigs a dime.
Shyanae@lemmy.world 15 minutes ago
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Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
I’m worried that they’re trying to price us into not owning our machines anymore. You will own nothing and rent from us strategy.
MalReynolds@piefed.social 5 hours ago
I hear you, you makes sense, but that way lies the death of personal general computing, which would be a crying shame. You’ll have nothing and (won’t) like it a few years later, SaaS taking over powered by all those ‘AI’ datacentres. Peak phone could even have happened if RAM becomes prohibitive, instead it’s all centralized, subscription web services. I see it as a pretty existential threat for my preferred way of life.