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Lenovo Warns PC RAM Prices Will "Never" Go Back to Normal (www.thegamer.com)
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[–] dasrael@lemmy.zip 17 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

The prices will never go back to normal because that's not how pricing works. Once its proven that consumers will pay the price, they will modulate supply to keep the price where it is. Why do more for less when they can do less for more.

We're fucked. It's not going to get better. Act accordingly.

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 11 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah guys, this is true for sure and we should all panic buy now. Because prices for computer hardware never come down over time.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

that's not the point. you are talking in extremes. the point is prices won't reach the relatively low price we were used to. that happens because there is not enough competition for that.

[–] outerspace@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Exactly, I'm just not buying any more computers for now and that's it. If I have to I'll order from taobao while they have supply

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

If that were the case then why are we currently talking about these insane price hikes when RAM was more expensive than it is now 20 years ago? That could only have happened if prices went down.

[–] toddestan@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

Well, it's not like it would be the first time something like that happened.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 hours ago

We're fucked. It's not going to get better. Act accordingly.

we can just blow up these factories and the CEOs if they are so greedy they wouldn't be of any use anyway.