Will this affect the prices of Macbook Pros and Mac Studios, especially the 512 GB version?
PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage
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Re: PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage
#232Earlier quoted context omitted.
The iPhone wasn't designed or marketed to large corporations. 3dfx didn't invent the voodoo for B2B sales. IBM didn't branch out from international business machines to the personal computer for business sales. The compact disc wasn't invented for corporate storage. Computing didn't take off until it shrank from the giant, unreliable beasts of machines owned by a small number of big corporations to the home computers…
> The iPhone wasn't designed or marketed to large corporations. The iPhone isn't exactly a consumer computation device. From that perspective, it does less work at a higher cost.
I'm sorry, but I'm not sure if you're implying you dislike Apple's approach to what the user is allowed to do, or suggesting we should only talk about general purpose computing devices. If it's the latter, sure, the iPhone's not an innovation in that space, discard it from my list of examples. If it's the former, I'll give you that too, but it was still the first of its kind, by a large margin.
(I remember the huge window in which phone companies desperately put out feature phones with sub-par touch screens, completely missing the value to consumers. The iPod Touch should've been warning enough... and should've been (one of) my signal(s) to buy Apple stock, I guess :-)
Re: PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage
#233Potentially unpopular take: memory manufacturers have been operating on the margins of profitability for quite a while now. Their products are essentially an indistinguishable commodity. Memory from Samsung or Micron or another manufacturer may have slight differences in overclockability, but that matters little to folks who just want a stable system. Hopefully the shortage leads large purchasers to engage in long-te…
DRAM already has a spot price, because it is a commodity.
Re: PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage
#234They have been sort of dumping the ps5 slim diskless over here in the EU at 349 EUR.
Re: PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage
#235So, like, we were already pretty much priced out of higher-end graphic cards, and now it's happening to RAM. All this while jobs are disappearing, layoffs are ongoing and CEOs are touting AI's 'capabilities' left and right. Next is probably CPUs, even if AIs don't use them that much, manufactures will shift production to something more profitable, then gouge prices so that only enterprises will pay for them. What's n…
>What's next? Electricity?
next?
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/14/data-centers-are-concentrate...
Re: PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage
#236Quick reminder that DRAM futures have existed since the 1980s so you all could have protected your price with calls.
i deeply hope this is /s
Re: PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage
#237Re: PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage
#238Who could think that high end PC can be an appreciating asset, huh
Re: PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage
#239Quick reminder that DRAM futures have existed since the 1980s so you all could have protected your price with calls.
Call me old-fashioned, but I shouldn't have to have a stock broker to buy a computer. Maybe we could re-organize society to be a bit less ridiculous. "Quick reminder that you could've been born rich instead of a povvo."
Most of us would be better with a fixed rate mortgage given risk reward. You dont buy a computer every month (unless you do but then that is rare)
Re: PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage
#240Potentially unpopular take: memory manufacturers have been operating on the margins of profitability for quite a while now. Their products are essentially an indistinguishable commodity. Memory from Samsung or Micron or another manufacturer may have slight differences in overclockability, but that matters little to folks who just want a stable system. Hopefully the shortage leads large purchasers to engage in long-te…
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