Make it fucking stop already. This is a war on freedom/privacy/compute.
Don't get rid of ANYTHING you have at this point. It might be all you have left in a few years.
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From the post:
>A 130% surge in combined DRAM and SSD prices by the end of 2026 will push PC prices up 17% compared to 2025 levels and wipe out the sub-$500 PC market entirely by 2028, according to a forecast published by research firm Gartner on February 26. The price shock will drive global PC shipments down 10.4% this year versus 2025, the steepest annual contraction in over a decade, as consumers and businesses hold onto existing hardware rather than upgrade.
The root cause is component inflation, with Gartner projecting that memory costs will climb from 16% to 23% of a PC's total bill of materials this year, a shift large enough to eliminate vendors' ability to absorb costs on low-margin products. Entry-level laptops under $500 become financially unviable at that ratio, and Gartner expects that price tier to be gone from the market within two years.
Make it fucking stop already. This is a war on freedom/privacy/compute.
Don't get rid of ANYTHING you have at this point. It might be all you have left in a few years.
Archive: https://archive.today/AmGqn
From the post:
>>A 130% surge in combined DRAM and SSD prices by the end of 2026 will push PC prices up 17% compared to 2025 levels and wipe out the sub-$500 PC market entirely by 2028, according to a forecast published by research firm Gartner on February 26. The price shock will drive global PC shipments down 10.4% this year versus 2025, the steepest annual contraction in over a decade, as consumers and businesses hold onto existing hardware rather than upgrade.
The root cause is component inflation, with Gartner projecting that memory costs will climb from 16% to 23% of a PC's total bill of materials this year, a shift large enough to eliminate vendors' ability to absorb costs on low-margin products. Entry-level laptops under $500 become financially unviable at that ratio, and Gartner expects that price tier to be gone from the market within two years.
