Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Fuck AI@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 days agoLaptop prices expected to soar by around 40% as AI crunch takes hold — analyst says rising mainstream models priced at $900 could hit more than $1,200 due to rising memory, storage, and CPU costswww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square11linkfedilinkarrow-up1153arrow-down12
arrow-up1151arrow-down1external-linkLaptop prices expected to soar by around 40% as AI crunch takes hold — analyst says rising mainstream models priced at $900 could hit more than $1,200 due to rising memory, storage, and CPU costswww.tomshardware.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to Fuck AI@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 days agomessage-square11linkfedilink
minus-squaresupersquirrel@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up50·14 days agoThis is just companies giving up the idea of needing to be competitive in favor of behaving as a cartel that can raise prices however they want lazily disguised as AI nonsense.
minus-squareFlaqueman@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up21·14 days agoYep! The news of higher prices is already out there. There’s zero incentive for the RAM Mafia to be competitive.
minus-squaretakeda@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-212 days agoStarting to wonder if the plan is kill personal computing to force people to used rental model (i.e. “cloud”)
This is just companies giving up the idea of needing to be competitive in favor of behaving as a cartel that can raise prices however they want lazily disguised as AI nonsense.
Yep! The news of higher prices is already out there. There’s zero incentive for the RAM Mafia to be competitive.
Starting to wonder if the plan is kill personal computing to force people to used rental model (i.e. “cloud”)