[mushufasa]

I doubt it. I predict in a few years, maybe sooner, one/some of the AI companies buying up the supply will either have achieved their goal or collapsed, and then the market will be flooded with a glut of memory driving prices low again. Or, conversely, the demand stays high for a sustained period of time and the suppliers just increase supply. There's no hard bill of materials/technical reasons for the memory prices to be this high, unlike 20+ years ago.

[Lalabadie]

And in the meantime, major buyers (government, big orgs) adjust by extending the planned lifespan of their computers, and upping the IT wage budget a bit to support that. That adjustment probably won't go away after supply returns.

[BunsanSpace]

That's honestly a good thing. Computers aren't really getting faster for end users doing mundane tasks the past couple of years.

Will help reduce E-Waste, and to the end user there won't be a different. A machine from 5 years ago feels just as fast as a brand new machine.

[KellyCriterion]

Im always shocked how much good IT equipment is shoved into the trashbin: At a lot of companies I could make a great deal - either for using it on my own or selling it on Ebay later on.

Big Corporations offen trash IT equipment thats only 3 - 4 years old. And there is no recycling etc. Very sad.

[toast0]

Big corporations tend to send old hardware through the surplus marketplace. There's lots of 3-4 year old corporate computers for sale. Often, the company leases the computers and then the lessor will sell them when they're returned.

[lamontcg]

I got a pretty nice 120Hz ultrawide dell for cheap at one of those surplus shops awhile back.

[Lalabadie]

Apple themselves make pretty good business leasing their own products that way.

[bradlys]

Meanwhile I’m at faang and they’re reusing 7 year old monitors still. Still getting equipment from pre-covid era.

Where are these luxurious big corporations that give their employees nice new equipment? :(

[toast0]

As long as it's working (and not gross), why do you need a new monitor? My current monitor is a 2010 model, I think I got it around 2013. I don't know what a new monitor would do for me, other than have a worse aspect ratio, cause Dell stopped making 30" 16:10 monitors.

[KellyCriterion]

What Im doing wrong? My 24" with 1920x1200 from 2010 is doing quite fine until today?

[TremendousJudge]

> A machine from 5 years ago feels just as fast as a brand new machine.

Except you can't install Windows 11 on it, and the org has to trash it anyway to keep up with security requirement (I know people on that line of work, they're all angry about it)

[eumenides1]

AI companies aren't buying RAM, they are buying the Wafers themselves. Then they are making special AI stuff. So the RAM never exists, and there will be no glut memory coming. Maybe some DDR5 will dribble out, but HBM isn't something we can use (at the moment).

[KellyCriterion]

Well, at least then there would be enough RAM to run run Windows7 and Crysis from a RAMdisk, Id guess?

Also RAMsan will have a renaissance then? :-D