Why would it be the same percentage increase? RAM is only one component of the whole machine. "We were going to sell our airplane for $10 million, but one screw doubled in price so now we're selling it for $20 million."

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kuschku a day ago | parent | next [-]

Because it's not just one screw, at the moment RAM, flash and GPUs are experiencing massive price increases.

And in both machines a similar percentage of their price is caused by these components.

	▲	Forgeties79 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		>GPUs AMD GPU's are all still basically MSRP. You can get a 9070 for $600 off amazon right now.

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brailsafe a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Because of the proportion of the two critical component increases as a part of the whole. It's not like a screw, more like the propeller or something. I just bought ram at retail price, and in my currency it went from $100 to $600CAD for 32Gb. I can't even justify a nvme drive at this point, the prices are comical.

	▲	kuschku 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I built my current computer in 2020, went from part-time junior engineer to full-time senior engineer, and I couldn't afford to replace that computer at the same specs today. It's unbelievable. I couldn't afford to replace my current NVMe drives (which is why I'm very happy I set everything up with the Samsung 970 Pro, as they're 2-bit drives that will outlast even my grandchildren). I actually had to RMA some RAM yesterday, and even that has gotten so expensive that it now costs more than my entire computer cost in 2020.