TuxDear Americans, be prepare to get screwed!
Here’s article: tomshardware.com/…/trump-tariffs-increase-laptop-…
A_Union_of_KoboldsAny reason for the unnecessary outlining and underlining instead of just cropping the picture decently? Ffs
exuTbf, this makes it more shitpost
It’s a shitpost. You may want to check your expectations.
but then we wouldn’t get to see the pretty boat!
It will at least be extremely funny to watch all the gamer bro chuds freak the fuck out when an immediate consequence of their actions will be that gaming pc components instantly inflate 50% in price.
Glad I already got my Steam Deck, fuck.
macnielbut but… Orange men said it was good for the economy, now I have to pay 2000 Dollars for a 5090? Why aren’t they coming to America and produce here!?
Trump basicly become world’s biggest GPU scalper! Good luck spending 3000$+ on RTX 5090 graphics THICK brick
Nicht BurningTurtleMaybe we will finally get some optimised games.
Ahhaha, good joke.
No the future is everything is more expensive and worse quality.
Only without the cool tech :(
GHiLAWith the way gaming has been going, wtf are you people even upgrading for?
CHIPS Act? Never heard of it.
actually I didn’t.
Its a pretty strategically and economically impactful piece of legislation pushed by, and then signed into law, by Biden, in 2022.
It basically sets up a bunch of tax incentives and funds to go toward building out domestic computer hardware research and manufacturing.
Its the kind of thing that would lay the foundation for the US building a lot more of its own computer hardware, instead of importing it.
So when the Trump tariff apocalypse hits… assuming the CHIPS Act does not get repealed, it will be the only saving grace in terms of possibly lowering computer hardware costs.
Trump and Republicans are likely to try and take credit for this, if domestic chip fabs start coming online before 2028, pretending it is something they came up with.
Oh, the thing Trump called "so bad" on Joe Rogan a couple weeks ago? He said that tariffs are his preferred strategy to force companies to build in the US. Maybe that was just rhetoric and you can't trust it, but he did say it.
As it stands, CHIPS isn't going anywhere, so at least Americans won't be totally fucked.
I know these things take time, but it’s really hard not to be skeptical of CHIPS amounting to much. It reminds me too much of all the grant money given to telecom companies like AT&T and Verizon - supposed to be for improving infrastructure and implementing 5G, but they just pocketed the money as profit.
yep! and by then its too late. they’ve already shot themselves in the foot, they just haven’t felt the pain yet.
[deleted] in lemmyBold of you to assune they won’t just blame Dems because it isn’t like reality matters.
I just said they would freak out.
Who they end up blaming is between them and their god emperor, I guess.
God Emperor*. I had to correct you or it would go against my Trump Score.
r00ty20 years into the trump dynasty dictatorship, they will still be saying "thanks Biden" to every financial inconvenience.
They still blame Obama
Fuck the dems, too. Less people voted this election, than the last election. People didn’t bother to go vote that should have.
It’s a small price to pay to keep pronouns away from our games.
I don’t think that goes far enough. We need to keep all nouns out!
PandasdontflyIf you think that’s funny just wait for all the construction bros to discover that Milwaukee is now a Chinese company and their M18 HD12 batteries suddenly cost >500 a pop
And automotive guys figuring out a good chunk of their replacement parts are European.
Oh, that too. Most of these compact SUVs are built foreign because that’s where they generate the most revenue. Imagine hitting a pheasant in your Chevy, a pheasant of all things, and getting a 10k insurance estimate because it cracked your made-in-Mexico integrated LED headlamp assembly and split your bumper cover
This post is my reminder that I should probably upgrade my graphics card this December, rather than waiting for any other time.
TakiosI guess there will be many people thinking that, driving up demand->increasing prices before any tariffs even exist.
Fuck, I’ve been putting off getting a new laptop, but hell this is probably going to influence that decision.
Probably should get on it and buy it now ahead of day 1
I really really hope that they will enact their economic agenda before their racist agenda. When they denaturalize and deport citizens, half of us will be cheering (unfortunately). When the price of electronics/ cars increases it distributes harm to all.
MagisterFor years, us, Canadians went to USA for shopping. Next year with the exchange rate at the highest for US$, and Canada without tariff, a shit load of americans will come to Canada to buy their electronics and stuff.
rbosThey’ll still have to pay the tariff when crossing the border back to the USA, unless they want to risk smuggling it.
I .Ean that’s how it was for Canadians, it’s not like we had an actual work around there either. People just don’t bother to declare stuff when crossing.
MirthfulAlembicA Canadian I used to know told me their family would have some cheaper items in the back seat that they’d declare and hide the more expensive stuff. Apparently it did work.
That was my shoplifting tactic when I was a kid.
REGULATIONS
Returning to the U.S.
Less than 48 hours in Canada:
$200 USD worth of goods per person, tax and duty freeAny purchase of alcohol or tobacco products may be subject to duties and taxes
48+ hours in Canada:
$800 USD worth of goods per person, tax and duty freePurchases may include 1 litre of alcohol, 200 cigarettes (1 carton), and 100 cigarsFamily members can combine their tax and duty allowances
So our 19 year olds who need abortions, what stops them from going their getting care and then having a drink a smoke and coming home after. Except the prospect of not wanting to come back?
The fact our healthcare system is woefully overburdened already?
She can, but I guess she’ll have to pay for it/go to private.
That’s fine, you’re all ok with American made laptops, right?
Do those exist? And what about all the internal components?
burgersc12They’re state of the art, made from the finest balsa wood!
I believe the internals are all made from freedomite and it’s all a brand new design.
uisJust like russian laptops. Except instead of being built like a tank they are built from toilet paper.
I’m actually happy about no Chinese goods. It’s probably the only thing I kinda agree with about Trump
Not just Chinese goods, but Chinese components. That cost will be passed on to the consumer. There are A LOT of things that aren’t made at all in the US. If you thought cost of living was high under Biden…
No. I’m absolutely sure that this was absolutely wreck the economy. However US manufacturing would finally be independent. I’m interested in this terrible experiment.
With how efforts have been going with getting US based semiconductor foundries up and attempts to replicate the quality and efficiency of TSMC, I think my old i7 920 will find decent value on the secondary market when the tariffs hit.
Does “designed in California” count?
PriorityMotifImplying I could afford that shit in the first place 🤡
No you don’t understand, Mexico is going to pay for, sorry I mean, China is going to pay the tariffs.
UnderpantsWeevilUnironically what we’re going to hear Trump say. But also, there’s so much money in imports, I can see this plan getting bottled up and strangled in Congress.
Except I can see Trump just sidestepping via EO. Sure, it’s unconstitutional, but “official acts”, remember?
vaultdweller013I wouldnt be surprised if the US ends up with sanctuary ports where the tariffs are just hand waved by the state.
And then charge tariffs for goods moved to red states?
innermeerkatThat’s all cool and nice, but let’s see what happens to the prices when Taiwan gets invaded.