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Framework proved repairable laptops can work, but almost nobody is willing to buy one (www.xda-developers.com)
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[+] -8 points 4 months ago* (6 children)

I hope this memory crisis gets sorted

https://dam.stanford.edu/memory-prices.html

Looks like pretty normal market fluctuation. Not a crisis.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    Quite normal, yes. Especially the prices for DDR4 and DDR5, the most commonly used RAM types in consumer laptops/desktops

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago

    I don't know how old "abc" is, but it's particularly painful for those of us who remember $100 going from getting us a 32Kb RAM pack, to 1Mb, to 64Mb, to 256Mb, to 1Gb, to 16Gb, and then just fucking stop for ten years, and now going back to no longer being able to even get us 16Gb any more. It's like stuff stopped getting better a decade ago, and everything is being made worse by the greed of rich arseholes

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    In late December of 2023 when there was a glut of RAM on the market, I purchased 24 64G ECC DDR5 sticks for $188 each. I split them between two production servers I was building for a cluster. In early 2025 I was setting a third and they had rose to $318 each.
    I checked last night and found the price for new was $2,700 a stick.

    How is this a fluctuation?

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