alt Hacker NewsHas anyone noticed their employer actually cutting back on employee hardware purchases? Because if new laptops are still being handed over to developers on a 2–4 year cycle, then probably not.
Game developers might have to do something though if high-end GPUs are going to end up being $5000.
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duffyjp • last Thursday at 8:36 PM
Absolutely.
I've declined the refresh I've overdue for. My 2021 model MBP has 32gb and a 1TB SSD. They're currently giving out the base model Air: 16gb and 256gb. No thanks.
We used to get whatever was most appropriate for our role, now we get whatever is cheapest.
At least so far the RTX 5090 seems to be available and at the same price it’s been at for the past six months (around $3000). I’m not sure when you’d see GPUs affected by the RAM price increases.