So where do I buy?

Apple is gonna have an interesting decision to make.

They can either keep their traditional price premium, and pocket the juicy margin afforded to them by being the only buyer who’s not chained to the DRAM cartel…

…or they could push harder on the strategy they were building out before the DRAM crisis, with the affordability of the Neo and the revived Mini, and undercut the whole PC market on price while still delivering a premium-feeling product.

I really hope they choose the latter. Not only would it put the DRAM cartel in a compromising position, but it would shift the whole center of gravity towards:

• ARM
• Unixy (BSD/Linux) envs
• Unified memory
• Consumer-focused hardware

…which I think are all great moves for the long-term health of computing as a whole.

As a bonus, local inference would get a lot more accessible, which would make the AI barons cry.

Good. Fuck the oligopolies.

Which means pretty soon they will surpass it.

I would say it is going to be banned for national security, but looks like Apple wants to keep their phones inside a certain price bracket and the US govt cannot anger it's leaders.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-china-memory-chip-plan-57773a83?eafs_enabled=false

When will we learn that China only channels limitations into better technology. They've done this with so many different types of tech. Trying to keep them out of global science only seems to strengthen them.

Where can I buy cxmt in the EU?

The benefits of a partially planned economy

Wow, is it their diets???

In 2024 I bought my dream machine just before this insanity happened. I am probably going to do my best to make it the final machine I buy...