alt Hacker NewsPersonal computing is in shambles right now. It has been for a bit. It was hard to buy video cards for a while, now other components are affected too.
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paxys • today at 4:43 PM
Personal computing was essentially dead when companies figured that renting hardware and software and charging monthly subscriptions was a lot more profitable.
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Scroll_Swe • today at 4:17 PM
My pre-built desktop PC is as cheap today as last year at the same store...
Dont get the panic. :)
ryzenn 9800x3d 32GB ram 9070xt
about 2k
sneak • today at 4:30 PM
This is ridiculous. A used M1 MBAir is the best personal computing value ever offered in the history of the world.
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Well, I think from the technology side, the performance and capacity you can get in a personal computer (especially a laptop) is absolutely incredible.
It's just component suppl and that supply is being eaten up and re-diverted to data centers. Prices and availability will be in poor shape. Though I am wondering if GPU compute and memory start to diverge enough that AI companies begin using such specialized chips they stop threatening consumer devices. Maybe that's just wishful thinking.