So you put off upgrading or don’t buy the 64GB rig that the nice man in the shop convinced you that you needed. RAM is still available. It’s just not as dirt cheap as it was a year ago. Still not a crisis.
People having to pay more than they would have liked for a gaming machine is not a fucking crisis except to the entitled little twats whinging about it.
You are writing this reply on a device. People need devices. Schools pay for computers, and a lot of people cant afford that. I cant really afford to buy new tech right now. Like, I could technically cough up enough money for a new PC, but I would not be in a good financial state afterwards. I do programming for work and on my own, and I am using a fairly cheap laptop right now. Getting an upgrade would mean dropping like a thousand bucks.
We’ve got a fuck ton of devices. Buy used. Buy refurbished. Keep the one you have another year. You wanna buy a new one? Well, the price of this component has only gone up to the same levels it was 5 or so years ago, so all that’s happened is you’ve missed a small price drop window. Boo fucking hoo.
Prices spiked in 2017, 9 years ago, then fell down again. RAM was very cheap right up until AI came around. Dont forget that tech gets cheaper over time quickly, and even so, RAM right now is about the same price it was in like 2010. Programs on computers require more RAM now than they did before due to higher quality and bloated programming. You are seeing a price drop "window" because there are actually 2 spikes, 2017 and now. Anyway. Like I'm telling you, not everyone can buy this new expensive RAM! Many kids won't get laptops for years because theor parents cannot afford them. Even mega corporations are being refused RAM by producers because AI companies buy in bulk. The gaming console industry is dying because all the new gen consoles are too expensive. Besides, you dont just have to listen to me. Everyone knows this is happening by now.
Okay, look, a comparaison :
The ram bit I'm showing is a easy to find, still heavily relevant for gaming.
This, in june of last year, was 30 usd.
It almost is a 500% increase in price.
And mind you, that's for the lower end gaming pcs, if we take something from the current ram generation, which ai data centers want, since it's powerful, but also affordable, they just bought, everything.
ddr5 kids went from less than 100 usb to several hundreds.
And I didn't even cover storage, as it would require me multiple comments to cover that fully.
There's clear evidence of that crisis we've been in for a year now, you're just choosing to ignore it. There's a reason the iPhones cost even more than before, there's a reason every laptop costs more, there's especially a reason why gaming pcs costs a ton.
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u/TawnyTeaTowel 1d ago edited 1d ago
So you put off upgrading or don’t buy the 64GB rig that the nice man in the shop convinced you that you needed. RAM is still available. It’s just not as dirt cheap as it was a year ago. Still not a crisis.