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by PaulHoule 5 hours ago
I hope it is a while before I have to buy a new computer!
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Don't buy new. Get a 10 year old dual processor server tower on eBay with 128GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD.

It's cheaper than new and it'll do everything you need it to without even breaking a sweat.

I wish I could look forward and say, "prices will go down again" I don't see when or how. I hope I'm wrong.
RAM prices are crazy now, but they always tended to go up and down in waves over the years.
Well the bubble could pop, but...

as much as we are blaming the pandemic, and the crypto and AI bubbles I think Moore's law was really about transistors getting exponentially cheaper not just exponentially smaller. If you can't afford them it doesn't matter how big or small they are!

I think the EUV transition broke the long-term cost decreases and we might be seeing the end of progress in electronics and computing unless there is some fundamental change.