Thank you new AI overlords you have wreaked everything.

That's not good. There's zero chance they'll just drop a new one before the other stuff is out. Either they can't manufacture them at the current price point any more, or they were caught out by increasing demand, which is likely caused by the current hardware piece increases.

GPU shortage of 2018

Pandemic-related supply chain disruptions

NFT craze

And now Altman's bullshit. All I want is to tinker with computers, learning about their inner-workings, the science behind them and play games. Why do profit-driven enterprises always have ruin our hobbies? Just so we can produce slop content to make the internet more bloated than it is already? Is it the worth the water depletion and the environmental destruction?

I was just going to buy one of those.

Because they’re releasing a new one?

Still one of the best pieces of hardware I own. Great little machine.

This news makes me want to hug my steam deck and tell her shes a pretty girl.

I think they probably want to use the ram and storage for their new machines, rather than steam decks. It’s probably not the same type, but they could have a limit on how much they can procure total.

Phooey.

Every day I regret skipping the OLED a little bit more 😭