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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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>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.
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I keep saying it in jest, but it is becoming more and more of something that might need to happen: we need to crowd fund our own manufacturing company that can build whatever we need at the prices we want. Build RAM this month, SSDs the next. Have different companies so we can make building materials, hell even cars and their replacement parts. Just a good car model that will never change and the replacement parts can always be made.