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bigiain 5 hours ago

> on hardware that ordinary people can afford

These days, can "ordinary people" afford 24GB of ram and half a TB of NVME ssd?

sigh

3836293648 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Maybe not afford new, but they probably already had it from before the current crisis?

walrus01 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The very boring pair of two 16GB ddr5 6000 I had in my newegg shopping cart went from $399 to $475, so increasingly the answer will be "no".

bigiain an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I bought whole Intel N100 mini pc with 16GB of DDR5 in it in 2023 for $AUD289 (so about $US200). I got a 16GB (DDR4) SODIMM in 2022 for $AUD88 ($US60).

fuzzfactor 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Maybe that's a measure of the self-fulfilling dollar incentive toward "renting" someone else's RAM in the future rather than trying to actually own such an outlandishly luxury item :\

fuzzfactor 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Ideally this engineer's approach will yield better performance on lesser equipment in the future, if they keep up the good work after they get more-capable gear to experiment with as time goes by :)