I’m surprised the drop is not a lot bigger… Who in their right mind would buy a PC right now unless they had absolutely no choice?
What’ll get really bad is when the hardware OEMs become insolvent due to high prices killing consumer demand for their products, and then we are left with few to no options for PC parts.
If nothing else, this could spell the end of the modular ATX/ITX PC.
DDR4 is still relatively addordable right now and works fine for gaming
What’ll get really bad is when the hardware OEMs become insolvent due to high prices killing consumer demand for their products, and then we are left with few to no options for PC parts.
They’re certainly on their way. The Raspberry Pi foundation, and many clones give me hope for a future for personal “hobby” computing, at least.
AHH, so that’s how the rich get ultra-tech while everyone scraps old machines for parts!
I wondered how we’d take that step to cyberpunk dystopia.
7% so far…
These prices staying high will eat into people replacing old machines as the years go on. There will be PC manufacturers closing up shop before this situation even thinks about getting better.
🤣 Gabe now has three more years to make fab
Perfect for when it’ll be time for me to upgrade, as I got a new system in 2025.
I’m convinced this is all to normalize keeping your data in the cloud and other 3rd party hands. It’s hr decline of the PC market, the fact that games, movies and music no longer come on media you own, instead is now just a license to use the content…
This is all part of the strategy of ensuring we do not own our data. They want all storage of all the data to be something we have to pay to access. They want to control everything, and make access to it a subscription.
