RAM, And SSDs Reached Insane Prices
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Dave in Phoenix
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On PC I have six 25"-27" monitors in front of me, some portrait, some landscape; two landscape, one on top of the other. I think using multiple monitors that are far less expensive makes more sense than 4K. Mine are bright and clear; I cannot imagine how I would see better image quality on 4K. But maybe a gamer would? I have never played a game on a PC.
I also have on my laptop a 32"curved at 3.4K, but I cannot really tell any difference in quality from those on my PC other than a bigger screen.
It is not about quality of the display, it is about useful screen realestate.
When I do work I often need to have more than one app open and have to constantly move back and forth between apps. When I code I will have an IDE open and next to it I will have a pdf open or chrome open.
If the apps are all on the same screen you save 2 seconds from having to turn your head to another screen and your mouse cursor does not need to travel as far. The seconds saved adds up fast.
4k allows me to tile two apps comfortably, it can tile upto 4 apps somewhat comfortably and each app gets 1080p worth of pixels. Most apps target 1080p or higher resolution and giving it less makes the UI reflow all fucked up.
I also have a 27 inch 1440p monitor on the side but that is just for playing YouTube while I work.
I game at 1080p on my 4k monitor, I only care about 4k for work.
speaking of gaming saw some analysts saying gaming gpus might end up going backwards to the days of 4gb vram which is absolutely nuts
absolutely, 4k is a godsend for work because of all that real estate once i made the switch a while back it was like night and day
It's an FU from plutocrats to tax payers. Their data centers require massive storage devices plus RAM to operate. They need this to keep us "the great unwashed" under control. Never mind OS, Data Centers require massive amounts of electricity and water to function. Which the Plutocrats have graciously allowed us to pay for. In the future the Squid Game will become reality...great way to reduce the surplus population.
5090's reaching up to $9000, 5070s/80's reaching upwards of $5000 and now there's rumours of a 6000 series I think the average consumer simply will not be able to get GPU's in this age
In Feb, I got my MSI Raider laptop with an Intel Core 9 and an RTX 5070 Ti GPU for $2399.99. Now it sells for $2799.99.
and thats not even including taxes thats close to 9 grand just for a gpu that is beyond nuts
For those who bought them for $3000 early in 2025 as an investment. I was going to buy the RTX 5090 but opted for the 5070 because the 5090 uses a lot of energy and my electricity bill will be $$$$$. But now I should've bought and scalped it but then again, I could get robbed trying to sell it.
I'm one of the people who bought a graphics card's right before they started skyrocketing. I ended up with a RTX 4090 for around $2000 and not even 3 months later the prices were already up to $3500. Insane.
lucky, i'm still on an old 1070 because I didn't feel like upgrading at the time now i refuse simply based on price
One of my cousins was telling me today that his computer died last night and he found out one of his RAM sticks failed. He went on to check the price of some new ram and it is out of this world expensive, especially for DDR5 which is what he has.
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