@mattly It's certainly not the first time I've had a stick of ram go bad. It's just the first time the pc market has been *like this*
Pricing out replacements, I could build a desktop for $1800ish, and there is some appeal in that. And that's assuming I can find and reuse one of the m.2 drives I have floating around. Or, I could switch to a thinkpad p14 for $2200ish.
Either option is like 30% more expensive than it should be