Question Is the cost of RAM going up everywhere?

[DZero]

No offense, but it's silly the amount of focus you put on obsolete Windows versions and obsolete DDR3. I use my PCs for much longer than most people*, but I'm not going to run an EOL OS because it had a smaller base memory footprint.

If someone wants to buy small (i.e. 4GB) RAM sticks, there are plenty of used ones to be found.

* Currently I daily drive 2017 Kaby Lake, no hardware replacement plans. Linux makes it easy for geeks to use older systems comfortably. Unfortunately, Microsoft has different ideas on that.

And this is why Microsoft is starting to lose terrain. Windows 11 is going to elitist and buggy that people are starting to see Steam OS and Mac OS as better alternatives. And Mac OS does not have that issue of availability for now. There are still Mac M1 around the market.

New rant from GN

Subscription will fail, ISP won't allow that.

 

[dlerious]

Subscription will fail, ISP won't allow that.

Why won't the ISP allow it? There's Adobe Creative Suite, GeForce Now, plus all the online LLMs right now. There's nothing I can think of to stop ISPs from using data caps to get their share of the money if things move to the cloud.

 

[Hans Gruber]

It's not good for markets to be manipulated in a down economy. We clearly have market manipulation which used to be illegal.

 

[DZero]

Why won't the ISP allow it? There's Adobe Creative Suite, GeForce Now, plus all the online LLMs right now. There's nothing I can think of to stop ISPs from using data caps to get their share of the money if things move to the cloud.

They can tolerate a part of the services, not the full OS services the big companies wants.

It's not good for markets to be manipulated in a down economy. We clearly have market manipulation which used to be illegal.

Also, that thing leads something worse than a recesion, it goes directly into a crash and a depression.

 

[Abwx]

No offense, but it's silly the amount of focus you put on obsolete Windows versions and obsolete DDR3. I use my PCs for much longer than most people*, but I'm not going to run an EOL OS because it had a smaller base memory footprint.

If someone wants to buy small (i.e. 4GB) RAM sticks, there are plenty of used ones to be found.

* Currently I daily drive 2017 Kaby Lake, no hardware replacement plans. Linux makes it easy for geeks to use older systems comfortably. Unfortunately, Microsoft has different ideas on that.

You surely noticed that i wasnt talking of myself but of relatives here and there,
but given the current RAM/SSD prices gouging i would certainly comfort them in keeping
their current hardware.

The lower the demand of RAM/SSD the faster prices will get to acceptable levels,
6 months ago a very basic 6C/12T 32GB PC did cost 330€ excluding the OS, currently
you have to add 42% just because of RAM/SSD, and if RAM demand doesnt collapse then we can expect all the other parts prices to increase as well.

 

[dlerious]

They can tolerate a part of the services, not the full OS services the big companies wants.

Is it really that much compared to streaming video from Youtube, Netflix, etc.(3-6GB per hour for 1080p)?

 

[DZero]

Is it really that much compared to streaming video from Youtube, Netflix, etc.(3-6GB per hour for 1080p)?

If it were just a fraction there won't be a problem, well, now multiply it for at least 5 times since is the target of the sellers.