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by jauntywundrkind 813 days ago
The post PC era of big expensive hardware you can't even buy if you do have the money is upon us, and mercy this is a scary scary time in computing for me/us.
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I was talking about renting!

There are some boutique hosts like Hot Aisle serving MI300s (who I really should reach out to), but for the immediate future our little startup is stuck with the big cloud providers. No MI300s for us mere mortals, not even to rent.

Besides the datacenter stuff, what exactly are people struggling to source these days? The 30/40-series prices should be fairly stable relative to the MSRP these days.
Used 3090 prices are absolutely outrageous.

And the 4090 MSRP was outrageous to begin with.

Yet another thing to go back to 1990's ecosystem. We already have timesharing again, now we have the prices as well.