People act like RAM is thousands of dollars now. I checked prices recently and while it’s pretty high, it’s not that bad for a component you just buy once and use for a long time. I’m still more concerned about the prices and availability of decent GPUs.

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vitally3643 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

RAM prices are so bad that my business couldn't launch our product this year. RAM increases completely obliterated our profit margin, and would have required raising prices 30%. For a small business, that just doesn't work.

A lot of small businesses are getting absolutely wrecked by this.

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deadbabe a day ago | parent [-]

Just raise the prices, it works sooner or later. We are not getting the old prices back.

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KetoManx64 a day ago | parent [-]

> Just raise prices

Let me guess, you've never run a small business before who's existance is based around being small, nimble and inexpensive in order to compete with large corporations?

Yours is the same answer that were given to hundreds of thousands of small businesses during COVID who ended up going out of business. Now you get to shop/eat at at soulless $BIGCORP which has the same slop as every other soulless $BIGCORP.

	▲	deadbabe a day ago \| parent [-]
		No, but I have purchased from many small businesses who are all raising prices and I basically have no choice but to buy from them anyway.

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sudoshred 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Same people complaining "no one wants to work these days".