RAMageddon strikes again.
    • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      25·
      1 个月前

      It’s also what made your retirement savings go up so fast. You win some, you lose some.

  • djdarren@piefed.socialEnglish
    26·
    1 个月前

    Funny enough, the other day when the Steam Machine pricing was announced, I noted that where Valve are charging £90 per 500gb for storage when upgrading from 500gb to 2tb, Apple were charging £267 per 500gb for the same upgrade in an iPad Pro.

    That has now changed.

    Apple are now charging £300 per 500gb when upgrading from a 500gb ipad to a 2tb iPad.

    Three. Hundred. Pounds.

    • kutt@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 个月前

      Yeah with those prices you’d expect the ram/storage inflation was already taken into account…

    • Spice Hoarder@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      1 个月前

      I’m so fucking scared of used laptops on eBay now. How do I know they aren’t going to try and swap out my ram?

      • iga_no_ika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        1 个月前

        You just gotta know who to buy from. This is a current item on eBay. Specs are solid for a good price, you can get newer generations for more money, and eBay’s protections are heavily weighted towards the buyer.

        That said, I just got a Thinkpad X1 Carbon from eBay and those have soldered memory, if that helps alleviate your RAM worries.

      • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 个月前

        I usually take this route and it’s easier to find barebones machines with no ram/ssd installed or just a lower quantity of RAM than I wanted. I purchase RAM separately to install. If the machine comes with RAM that gets taken out for upgrade I sell it back into the market if it’s worth it, or sometimes it goes down the line to one of my other machines. You can get some pretty dope deals this way with what I think is minimal extra effort.

  • architect@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    1·
    1 个月前

    I bought the best computer, loaded it with ram. And a new iPad Pro back in December when I first heard discussion about shortages. Thank fucking God for that.

  • ClanOfTheOcho@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 个月前

    I’m due for a laptop refresh at work in a couple months. Used to happen every 3 years when the warranty ended, but they extended it 6 months because of price increases. The irony here is not lost upon me. I hope they don’t extend it another 6 months. Or cheap out on the specs. Or both.

    • VirtuePacket@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      1 个月前

      Good luck. At my shop, we extended from a 36-month refresh cycle to “when the hardware is no longer capable of running a supported operating system”.

      SMBs can’t absorb these hardware costs.