To the data centers! Liberate RAM, for the people!
i am so ready for this to be over. i’ve been on the market for an upgrade for a while now but i refuse to let myself get scammed. this is pure disgust.
Dram spot prices have been going up for a long while now, it has just slowed down a liitle bit, but you can view them here: https://www.dramexchange.com/
Stop whining, in 1985 I paid $400 for 256 kilobyte RAM for my Amiga 1000, AND I WAS HAPPY!
You kids nowadays are spoiled, with 100,000 times more RAM if you have an average build with 16 GB RAM and 8 GB VRAM.
But the Amiga was still more fun than modern computers.Is it me? Or is it the kids that are wrong?
Hmmm… 🤔 …
It must be the kids. 😋Okay grandma let’s get you to bed…
I literally ran into this guy while on a hike just last week. He made it a point to tell me that people with degrees don’t know shit too. Interesting character.
In their special area they generally do, outside that they are probably like most people with an IQ above 100.
Maybe not. It’s like car enthusiasts refusing any modern car, especially EV that are on paper much more powerful but less fun to tinker and go down country roads.
But but but but my timing gun! And the points, plugs, and condenser! And the distributor cap! I NEED those to make my car worth driving and life worth living. /s
I do not require a combustion chamber in my sports car. I do however, prefer a curb weight under 1500 kg, which happens to exclude the vast majority of cars for sale in North America, even sporty ones, and EV sports cars under 1500 kg are very difficult to find indeed.
… I do however, prefer a curb weight under 1500 kg…
Why?
And don’t you mean pounds?
kg
1500lb would be ~680kg; that is serious race car territory. Not road legal these days; but a 1975 Fiat 500 weighed 500kg.
Many years ago, I had a 1992 Honda civic hatch; after looking it up; weighed 925kg.
I bought 128gb of DDR5 RDIMMs, cost about $4,200 or so. Considering that all new DDR5 for 2027 has already been bought by the corpos, odds are that this is going to be relatively cheap until the bubble pops.
On the…positive?..side, odds are that I can sell my old 128gb DDR4 machine for quite a few pennies.
Not that it matters anymore. GN summarised it best stating that we’re already long past the point where the extortionate prices matter to even enthusiast consumers who wouldn’t buy this shit at 3x MSRP anyway. Even prebuilts are selling empty case ‘kits’ to keep inventory moving.
Personal ownership was so pre-2020s anyways.
I can spend $800 on something I can use for years and resell, gift, or repurpose. Or, I can instead spend $180 annually under the threat of my data being destroyed if I stop giving into the extortion. Easy choice, really. /s
Idc I want those companies begging for my dollar on ten plus years.
