Wow. And that's a fairly well known brand. This won't end well.

These companies are determined to ruin absolutely everything aren’t they? If there’s increased demand and cost across the board that has knock on effects for repairing/upgrading/buying low cost refurbished computers and reducing e-waste as well as screwing the economy when it goes down.

With any luck morally and financially impoverished people might stealthily avail themselves of the newly lucrative items the way it already happens with copper wire and pipes