[adrian_b]

While I agree with that in principle, it is very worrisome that the prices of personal computers, especially of any personal computer that is not a big desktop, have been increasing continuously.

The price of a mini-PC with Intel Panther Lake is at least double in comparison with the price of a mini-PC with Arrow Lake H having similar specifications, and I am talking about barebones, before adding DRAM and SSDs, whose prices have risen even more.

The rise in prices is somewhat obfuscated by the confusing names of CPUs, i.e. some old and new CPUs may seem to be at similar prices and they have similar names, but the new CPU actually corresponds to a lower segment of the market, by having e.g. a smaller GPU and a lower clock frequency, while the CPU model that really corresponds to the old is named such that it seems to belong to the class corresponding to its present price.

As a concrete example of this obfuscation, which may confuse the buyers of laptops or mini-PCs, I have an ASUS 15 Pro with "Core Ultra 5 225H". If I would buy an ASUS 16 Pro now, the corresponding CPU model, the cheapest which is not worse than what I have, would be "Core Ultra X7 358H".