Apple Raises Mac and iPad Prices Up to $300: iPhone 18 May Cost Even More This Fall
MacBook and iPad prices rose up to $300 Thursday; the structural memory shortage means no quick fix.
I have the parts for my new computer, and am in the process of bringing it up. The memory I bought has gone up $700 in price from when I bought it a month ago. I paid triple the old price then. I have 128 GB. The hard drives (4) also cost a small fortune. Believe it or not, computer retailers are not trying to raise prices. They are only passing on what they have to. The problem is at the top.
AI has killed the home computer hobby. Rolling your own is becoming a thing of the past. If you have a mind for conspiracy and think perhaps killing the home computer industry so corporations and Tech Broligarchs have total control over AI is a plan.
You may be right.
It makes me wish America were not so docile.
Less Than A Year After The Last Price Hike, Xbox Is Increasing The Price Of All Of Its Consoles Once Again
It's becoming increasingly expensive to be a gamer these days, whether it's the rising cost of video games as a whole, or Valve trying to swindle you out of over $1,000 for a not very good PC. Everything is increasing in price.
All citizens will have are dumb terminals that listen to everything you say, and they will watch what you do. Isn't there a book about that?
RAM price hikes: the latest on the global memory shortage
Random access memory, or RAM, is in just about every piece of technology we use. But it’s also the technology that AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta are using to power the servers in their massive data centers.