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Framework Raises DDR5 Memory Prices by 50% for DIY Laptops

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Re: Framework Raises DDR5 Memory Prices by 50% for DIY Laptops

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Post by hyperpape »

Tadpole9181 wrote: post #102
hyperpape wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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I'm pretty sure this clearly runs afoul of anticompetitive laws, no? Altman is intentionally sabotaging the global electronics supply chain using their existing market dominance to prevent competitors from being able to operate. And, tangentially, I really don't know what world you lived in. The US has arrested civil rights leaders and overthrown countries and went through an entire era of McCarthyism to get here: wh…

Since it clearly runs afoul of anticompetitive laws, it will be easy for you to find case law that demonstrates that, alongside credible sources stating that OpenAIs actions are prosecutable that make that case.

This is big news, it's not like the folks who write about antitrust would just ignore it.

Re: Framework Raises DDR5 Memory Prices by 50% for DIY Laptops

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Post by jdprgm »

acephal wrote: post #49

Altman should be jailed for this. Single-handedly crashing consumer spending in an entire sector of the economy. At the very least for the reason that that was supposed to happen _after_ they had the AI in hand to supplant majority white collar labor, not before.

It certainly feels like this should fall somewhere along a spectrum of antitrust behavior. It's astounding the degree to which they are able to operate as if money isn't real. Strange circular deals and infinite VC money really fuck with markets and these past few years we've been venturing down a particularly concerning branch of capitalism.

Re: Framework Raises DDR5 Memory Prices by 50% for DIY Laptops

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Post by beeflet »

acephal wrote: post #49

Altman should be jailed for this. Single-handedly crashing consumer spending in an entire sector of the economy. At the very least for the reason that that was supposed to happen _after_ they had the AI in hand to supplant majority white collar labor, not before.

Won't someone think of the gamers?

Re: Framework Raises DDR5 Memory Prices by 50% for DIY Laptops

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Post by Marsymars »

jsheard wrote: post #106
Bayart wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The margins on memory for Apple were so absurd that they should have more ability to eat up the costs, if they wanted to. I'm assuming they would, to the extent that they're a device company more so than a service company yet.

I don't think Apple ever adjusts the price of existing products, for better (eating the cost of part shortages) or worse (over-charging for old parts). The real test will be what they do with upcoming products.

I can't find specific examples, but I'm almost certain they have at some points in the past adjusted pricing of upgrades mid-cycle.

Re: Framework Raises DDR5 Memory Prices by 50% for DIY Laptops

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Post by neogodless »

beeflet wrote: post #153
acephal wrote: post #49

Altman should be jailed for this. Single-handedly crashing consumer spending in an entire sector of the economy. At the very least for the reason that that was supposed to happen _after_ they had the AI in hand to supplant majority white collar labor, not before.

Won't someone think of the gamers?

Eh my (anemic) work laptop from 2019 probably won't get replaced for an extra year because my employer won't authorize the big laptop order at inflated prices.

Re: Framework Raises DDR5 Memory Prices by 50% for DIY Laptops

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Post by beeflet »

pmdr wrote: post #145
acephal wrote: post #49

Altman should be jailed for this. Single-handedly crashing consumer spending in an entire sector of the economy. At the very least for the reason that that was supposed to happen _after_ they had the AI in hand to supplant majority white collar labor, not before.

This is a dystopia no one really thought about. A handful of people anointed to spend borrowed money on a (so far unprofitable) quest to destabilize the world's economy, alienate the working class and make everything we've enjoyed the past 15-20 years a luxury.

a dystopian world in which computer memory is sort of expensive, god save us

Re: Framework Raises DDR5 Memory Prices by 50% for DIY Laptops

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Post by Marsymars »

mschuster91 wrote: post #127
Y_Y wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can play Counterstrike on a H100 if you really want to.

You can't, it doesn't have any video output port per the product brief [1]. Of course, if one is inclined, I'd take a wild guess and say you could try something like Steam Remote, but I wouldn't bet on that actually working out. And even if you could get it working - per an analysis of German newspaper Heise, the bloody thing has less shader compute capacity than the iGPU of AMD's Ryzen CPUs [2]. 30.000€ - and it'll…

Just use an AI to describe the Counterstrike scene to you!

Re: Framework Raises DDR5 Memory Prices by 50% for DIY Laptops

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Post by arjie »

jdprgm wrote: post #147
arjie wrote: post #71

I bought a couple of terabytes of RAM and now I feel like one of those crypto-whales haha. It's just sitting there in the corner. One was a lucky one, too, because I tried to negotiate a guy to sell me a system with less RAM but he wouldn't discount it much. Now it pays for most of the cost of the damn thing. These spikes do happen. I remember one for hard drives after a storm. The surprising thing for me is how chea…

Are you actually selling some of the RAM though? I was curious with this spike and while the amazon listing for 2x48GB DDR5 that I bought a year or so ago has indeed almost tripled the ebay resale value for similar packages sold recently is all over the map with some close to what I originally paid and some as much as double but probably on average 30-50% increase which is nowhere near the amazon listing.

1 GB RAM = 1 GB RAM man. I am HODLING!

Haha, if I did sell I'd probably sell on /r/homelabsales which is a much more pleasant place to interact.

Re: Framework Raises DDR5 Memory Prices by 50% for DIY Laptops

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Post by heavyset_go »

acephal wrote: post #49

Altman should be jailed for this. Single-handedly crashing consumer spending in an entire sector of the economy. At the very least for the reason that that was supposed to happen _after_ they had the AI in hand to supplant majority white collar labor, not before.

We need to normalize tar & feathering again.

Re: Framework Raises DDR5 Memory Prices by 50% for DIY Laptops

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Post by heavyset_go »

derektank wrote: post #70
acephal wrote: post #49

Altman should be jailed for this. Single-handedly crashing consumer spending in an entire sector of the economy. At the very least for the reason that that was supposed to happen _after_ they had the AI in hand to supplant majority white collar labor, not before.

We’re contemplating jailing people for buying manufactured goods at the market price now?

People go to prison for market manipulation all of the time.
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