AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention

Post by lossyalgo » Tue, Jan 06, 2026, 3:22 PM UTC

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> Are we looking at a future where home computers are replaced by thin clients and all the power lies in subscription services? No we don't. In Eastern Block during communism everything was either expensive or unavailable to the point that picking up broken TV on the side of the road and dismantling it for parts was making complete sense and you could actually learn something. Today it is much easier. You can visit e…

Windows 10 is mostly EOL because M$ doesn't want you using older machines, no matter how powerful.

Post by lossyalgo » Tue, Jan 06, 2026, 3:27 PM UTC

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Pluribus, I think.

Ha, explains why AI is at a loss trying to figure out the meaning behind that sentence - to recent. Perhaps that's the ultimate AI detector? Information too recent, too obscure or too useless to have been used to train language models?

Post by Sander_Marechal » Tue, Jan 06, 2026, 3:33 PM UTC

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Difference is that if subscription goes up from $10 to $15, that doesn't seem to bad. But if you want to purchase a new computer, and the price goes from $1000 to $1500, then that's a pretty big deal. (Though in reality, the price of said computer would probably go up even more, minimum double. RAM prices are already up 6-8 fold from summer)

Building a PC price is not double lol and RAM is nowhere near up 6-8x https://www.bestbuy.com/product/crucial-pro-overclocking-32g... That 32GB for $274 was not $34-$45 in the summer. RAM is up like 3x, but RAM is one of the cheaper parts of the PC. RAM that was $100 in summer is like $300 now when I look. So that's an extra $200 maybe $300, on say a $1500 build. GPUs are not up, they are still at MSRP: https://www.b…

Post by walthamstow » Tue, Jan 06, 2026, 3:35 PM UTC

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You're someone who is comfortable in a terminal desktop environment on Linux. What you or I do for storage is irrelevant to the wider consumer market. Apple's hardware prices mean that millions of people buy the smallest on offer and pay Apple monthly instead. It's a deliberate play for recurring services revenue. My point is this: would they buy a phone that had virtually-zero free storage and rely solely on iCloud?…

I don't know, do these small-storage-size models actually have that big a market share compared to the others? They also sell 1 TB iPhones and I think on the latest generation the minimum storage has been increased. If nobody bought them they wouldn't sell them (see the lack of newer "mini" models). I always thought that these models with tiny storage and tiny ram (for laptops) where just so that they could hook you…

Post by pphysch » Tue, Jan 06, 2026, 3:40 PM UTC

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> TSMC owns 60% of the foundry market. So if China decides to invade Taiwan, that would likely mean ~60% of CPU and GPU manufacturing capacity permanently destroyed at once. While it would certainly be devastating, do note that TSMC has fabs in places that aren't Taiwan. So their entire production wouldn't immediately go offline, and presumably China would still want to keep selling those products and would have an i…

> presumably China would still want to keep selling those products and would have an interest in avoiding destroying those factories There are rumours from seemingly credible sources that Taiwan has the TSMC factories (at least the ones located in Taiwan) rigged with explosives that they intend to trigger in case of invasion by China (as a disincentive against China invading). So China may well not have any say in th…