64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months

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• empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Damn never thought the gaming PC I built two years ago would actually be APPRECIATING in value over time.

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Just about all electronics older than a year or so have. Even a Switch, which came out 9 years ago, costs more to buy now than it did then!

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  • Asmodeus_Krang@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    It’s truly mental. I don’t think I could afford to build my PC at the same spec today with RAM and SSD prices being what they are.

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• Jhex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  This article sucks… I think they felt the need to excuse AI lest they upset corporate masters

  While it’s easy to point the finger at AI’s unquenchable memory thirst for the current crisis, it’s not the only reason.

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  DRAM production hasn’t kept up with demand. Older memory types are being phased out, newer ones are steered toward higher margin customers, and consumer RAM is left exposed whenever supply tightens.

  Production has not kept up with demand… demand being super charged by AI purchases

  …newer ones are steered towards higher margin customers… again AI

  consumer RAM is left exposed whenever supply tightens… because of AI

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  • altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    The LLM writing this feels almost sentient lol.

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• blitzen@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Apple over here not raising their RAM prices because they’ve always been massively and unjustifiably inflated. Now, they’re no longer unjustifiably inflated.

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  • mushroommunk@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I dunno. “AI companies bought literally everything” seems like an unjustifiable reason still.

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    • blitzen@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Perhaps. I guess my point is they no longer are as out-of-line with the rest of the market. Comment meant as a backhanded “compliment” toward Apple.

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• garretble@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Me to my 10 year old gaming pc: “I guess it’ll be another couple of years, buddy.”

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨minute⁩ ago

    Another couple of decades, even!

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Don’t worry, I suspect Cloud Terminals will be super cheap. You don’t even need that ol’ thing anymore!

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• Zephorah@discuss.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Increasing RAM (from 16) and SSD space (from .5TB) on a laptop now is easily +$1k and up.

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• Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My RAM kit is worth more than my GPU 🥲

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  • Railcar8095@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Just check, GPUs are also skyrocketing.

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    • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      My standard cycle for building is 5 years, and i just built (probably overspecced) with a 9800x3d and a 9070 XT. I’m sitting pretty for a while IMO.

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• carrylex@lemmy.world ⁨40⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  You know at this point people are probably gonna start insuring their RAM…

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• 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  TBF that is a crucial ram stick in the picture, those are rare shinies now

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  • Prove_your_argument@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not at microcenter. Their bundles are full of crucial chips. Just built one for a buddy last week.

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    • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I more meant now they’re not being made because Micron recently killed the Crucial brand to focus supply towards data center customers

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• Soulphite@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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• Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The 64gb memory i bought in june are up 400%

  Still cheaper than my macbook air though

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  • SinningStromgald@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There are pre-built gaming computers that now cost as much as the ram I bought.

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• TomMasz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is the future liberals no one wants.

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  • RottenHeads@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Huh? With a republican pedo in The White House you’re somehow blaming liberals?

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    • finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Pretty sure it’s a joke in the same vein as “Thanks Obama”.

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• humanspiral@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  the macbook air ram is also faster lpddr

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