Charlie Stross1d ago

HYPOTHESIS: while Moore's Law dominated performance in laptops, the rule was "cheap, fast, low power—pick any two".

Moore's Law is coming to an end. The Macbook Neo says "why choose?"

Nobody needs a laptop with a 40 hour battery life. Nor does anybody needs 200 cpu threads and an AI coprocessor and 256Gb of RAM and 8Tb of SSD. So we're finally seeing the sweet spot in the phase diagram drift inexorably towards the corner labelled "cheap".

Show threadJürgen Hubert1d ago

@cstross

I checked hardware prices for servers yesterday, and a 16 GB DDR5 RAM module had a purchase price of €1600.

How long will "cheap" remain an option under current market conditions?

Show threadsu_liam1d ago
@juergen_hubert @cstross There’s always looting ai data centers as an option. Probably not a solo thing.
Show threadJürgen Hubert

@su_liam @cstross

I recommend checking in advance whether it actually has servers or is just another financial investment shell that pretends activity.

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