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fromWIRED
2 days ago

With a Spike in RAM Prices, Now Might Be the Best Time to Buy a Laptop

Laptop prices fell across 2025, reaching unusually low levels during Black Friday/Cyber Monday with steep discounts on MacBooks, Windows laptops, and Chromebooks.
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fromThe Verge
1 week ago

Crucial is shutting down -because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead

Micron is retiring the Crucial consumer brand, reallocating memory and SSD supply toward AI-focused customers and reducing consumer memory availability.
fromArs Technica
2 weeks ago

Spiking memory prices mean that it is once again a horrible time to build a PC

Graphics card prices in the 2020s have undulated continuously as the industry has dealt with pandemic and AI-related shortages, but it's actually possible to get respectable mainstream- to high-end GPUs like AMD's Radeon RX 9060 XT and 9070 series or Nvidia's RTX 5060, 5070, and 5080 series for at or slightly under their suggested retail prices right now. This was close to impossible through the spring and summer.
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fromThe Verge
2 weeks ago

RAM prices are so out of control that stores are selling it like lobster

"Costs are fluctuating daily as manufacturers and distributors adjust to limited supply and high demand," reads a message posted in the store's display case, as spotted by Steve Lin. "Because of this, we can't display fixed prices at this time." Micro Center is apparently doing the same: "Due to market volatility, we ask that you please see a Sales Associate for price," reads an in-store message captured by Redditor CassTexas (via Tom's Hardware).
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