• PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca
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    5 hours ago

    $1130 CAD for the 512gb model.

    I built my gaming desktop for that price and it has a 4070 super.

    Next word generating companies have literally made personal computing unaffordable for the next decade (at least).

    • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      have literally made personal computing unaffordable

      …not if you buy our XBOX GAME CLOUD!!! and WINDOWS 365!!! rent forever and own nothing! the future is looking bright 🤑 /s

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      unaffordable for the next decade

      If you’re talking RAM prices, those are expected to come down in early 2028, so 18-ish months.

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        So how are they expected to come down? If new capacity becomes available the ai companies would gobble it up again.

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          Just ad infinitum? If so, the most profitable venture for any human being to be involved in right now would be RAM production. All of those producers would be expanding, because there would be infinite demand. No, these purchases are capex costs; the kind that they have to do once or every so many years. And the only way it happens every so many years is if the companies currently buying these things survive long enough to replace those parts when they reach their end of life.