Dr3ams Dell and other companies like them are a bunch of greasy pirates, always taking advantage of a crisis to pillage people. Their hardware is already overpriced and their pre-builds are a joke. This is greed on display. Reply
thestryker Notton said: I don't understand why the monitor is going up in price? I looked up the product page and the only thing remotely DRAM related is the optional multi-function USB-C hub. Except for the scalers used in every display (there's also some form of persistent memory used too, but I'm not sure if it's NAND based). DRAM is used in a very large amount of products people usually don't even think about. Now I am 99% certain the cost increase on these will not actually be proportional to their cost increase because businesses love excuses to jack up prices. Reply
Stomx Big tech has contract prices and essentially *owns* all aspects of electronics. So if prices grow that means YOU just subsidy their AI games as the major game in the town. AI is considered the major technological breakthrough like personal computers or internet in the past . But while with PCs and internet the major beneficiaries were everyone, with AI the major beneficiary is … big tech with its data centers with millions GPUs. Same with the currently elevated inflation. When it is larger than standard 2% which is considered "healthy" the extra is used for financing of some urgent needs. Some of this will partially be spent on … the same AI games ! Reply
hwertz So I wonder if there'll be all these 'spare' Dells showing up on their site in the future? I mean, at least they're giving notice but I imagine some businesses will say 'forget it I'll keep using what I have' when they order some PCs for $800 a pop and Dell is like "Well, actually we have your PCs ready but they're $1100 apiece." Reply
ekio let’s remember Samsung reduced their production on purpose to keep the prices high. That’s where we are because a handful of corporate’s greed… Reply
bolweval They should have an option to sell a machine with no ram so a customer can reuse their current ram… DDR5 has been out for 5 years now, most everyone has already been using it… Reply
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