Motherboards are relatively easy to manufacture and I suspect these AI datacenter builders plan to build their own with bus allocated specifically to the AI needs. RAM? Disk? Not so much… expensive to manufacture, requiring specific knowledge and not much to optimise.
So here we are
My concern is, how does this look in 5 years’ time? When your existing pc craps out and you absolutely need a new one? Prices don’t go down. Will AI demand still be high? Or data center demand?
Will we have to get minimal, subscription-based hardware so we can connect to a cloud pc, owning nothing and forgoing any anonymity?
That’s not a future I want.
I am an optimist and expect that the current AI bubble will collapse well before 5 years time and this will drastically change the equation. A lot of what is currently ordered or bought is not even used, and another share of those orders is pure air or part of circular money flows.
It won’t get everything down to pre-bubble prices but we should get a relief until the Tech-fascists find another bubble to repeat the hype cycle.
Refurbed laptops will surely still exist in 5 years because corporations use them.
I’d cancel my internet, and never buy another computer before paying these absurd costs.
no thanks… nothing on the internet is really worth those upfront costs anymore. companies have made the internet mostly trash, and they have also inflated the costs of the hardware required to unfathomable prices.
I have checked out and won’t return until they either fix shit, or be charged for all their crimes.
Just buy used lol. A 5 year old system can do anything a new one can if you’re willing to take a small hit on performance.
nah… internet is dying. it’s infected with corporations.
My motherboard is literally 15 years old. Yeah I’m bottlenecked from playing COD 34 or GTA6 but guess what can still play all the actually good games
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Edit: the joke fell on deaf ears I suppose 😶🌫️.
I get the feeling, I don’t see many upgrades in the near future for me.
But I also know that we’ve had it good for a long time. Go check out a PC catalog from the 80s to 90s and remember that those prices would be much higher with inflation.
If AI has its way, general purpose computing will be kept deep behind a paywall and far from the hands of ordinary people.
