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end of PCs we know

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Reply 20 of 23, by Intel486dx33

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A.i. and Robots and Electric cars are Invading California……
Sorry guys, The American Dream is Over….its all about MONEY and Security $$$$$.

Disable all your shares on your computers and lock everything up.
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Reply 21 of 23, by RandomStranger

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It's been over 20 years since things started to move the way to reduce the need for thick clients and it only sped up in the past 10-15 years. And the thing is, beyond power users like most of us, not many people really needs these thick clients. AI and cloud computing became a big enough business that home PC users can't really put up competition as demand for hardware even as a collective. And we are a lot more segmented than the big players who eat up our hardware. As well as a lot of us are also customers of the big players who eat up our hardware strengthening their demand.

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Reply 22 of 23, by Unknown_K

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I am waiting for the fire sales of RAM and SSD storage when AI shits the bed. DDR5 went up so much that people are overpaying for used DDR4 now, same with SSD and even spinning drives.

Old GPU prices are higher now than they used to be because new cards are too pricey.

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Reply 23 of 23, by Fish3r

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Unknown_K wrote on Today, 20:26:

I am waiting for the fire sales of RAM and SSD storage when AI shits the bed. DDR5 went up so much that people are overpaying for used DDR4 now, same with SSD and even spinning drives.

Old GPU prices are higher now than they used to be because new cards are too pricey.

Most of it will probably be destroyed rather than make its way back into the consumer market