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   Mr Penguin (mr_penguin@social.freetalklive.com)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Apr-2026 14:46:55 JST Mr Penguin

   "Microsoft Reveals Major Price Increase For All Surface PCs"

   I just want to put out a reminder that most PCs still cost less than a car, but that won't be the case shortly. If you think you might be needing a new computer in the next 3-4 years you might want to purchase one while you can still afford it.

   A few months ago a nice PC might have run $2500. Today you'll probably be paying $5,000 or more.

   Tomorrow ... well.. when there is no supply remaining (and this time is coming shortly) there will be no amount of money you can spend to get a new PC.

   Why am I putting out this reminder? I've been having to check our prices on components every few days to a week or two to ensure they're in line with the market. We had to just update some of prices on the higher end 2.5" SSD drives that my company sells. In just ~1-2 weeks we went from being a little bit on the high side price wise for these drives to losing money on 4TB and 8TB SSDs.

   I should also point out they're not even going to be making 8TB SSD drives shortly. The one company that produced these drives I do believe announced they were exiting the consumer market.

   Do you want a new car or a new computer/phone/graphics card/etc? You're probably going to have to pick one or the other in the months to come. Or at least the vast majority of us in the middle class will be facing that real world decision.

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     🌈ᚩ🌈 (bonifartius@noauthority.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Apr-2026 08:01:22 JST 🌈ᚩ🌈

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     @mr_penguin was the company exiting consumer market the one that did so because of the openai deal? because that deal was no deal but a "we think we gonna buy some stuff, maybe" and the manufacturer had the stock rating going through the floor after openai stated they're going to buy much less.

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     Mr Penguin (mr_penguin@social.freetalklive.com)'s status on Thursday, 16-Apr-2026 08:01:22 JST Mr Penguin

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     @bonifartius Samsung. I'm not sure the details of what happened, but it sounds like some of the reports of Samsung exiting the consumer SSD market may have been wrong. Samsung is the only company that makes an 8TB 2.5" SATA SSD. None-the-less it doesn't substantially change things. Whether they are getting out of the business or simply unable to supply the market the impact will be the same. So another thing if my recollection is correct is that it was reported that Samsung didn't have enough hard disks and ram or maybe it was jut ram to supply itself as third party contracts were signed that secured the manufacturing capacity for those in the AI industry.