Lee DunaMar 10

Laptop 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 costs

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Laptop 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 costs - Lemmy NZ

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Show threadsupersquirrel
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.
Mar 10 at 2:41pmWeb
Show threadFlaquemanMar 10
Yep! The news of higher prices is already out there. There’s zero incentive for the RAM Mafia to be competitive.
Show threadtakedaMar 12
Starting to wonder if the plan is kill personal computing to force people to used rental model (i.e. “cloud”)