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by marcus_holmes 52 days ago
I'm not sure what LLMs have to do with the death of personal computers? Can you explain, please?
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zouhair 52 days ago
Prices of RAM, GPUs, SSDs and even HDDs are now way out of reach for many people [0]. An SSD I bought 2 years ago at $300 CAD now cost $1K CAD for example and it's not gonna go down any time soon.

[0]: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/perfect-s...

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marcus_holmes 52 days ago
Ah I see, yeah.

This feels like classic economics, though - if the price of something goes up because of demand, then more suppliers enter the market and supply increases.

Also, the AI thing is a bubble, and bubbles burst. Sooner or later all that demand is going to disappear and we'll be oversupplied.

But yes, interesting times indeed.

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