No one will use AI products if there won't be consumer products because of RAM shortage.

pickleglitch an hour ago | parent | next [-]

The plan is to make us all use shitty hardware like a chromebook and rent compute from the cloud for anything heavier than a web browser.

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cube00 43 minutes ago | parent [-]

> anything heavier than a web browser

The way Chrome feasts on RAM, might need the cloud for that too.

	▲	KellyCriterion 30 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Honestly, FF became similar worse: On my 16 GB machine, when surfing some hours FF has allocated around 10-11 GB and for whatever reason it does not free them, unless I exit and restart it

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infecto an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

While I definitely agree that there will be a slow down in purchase decisions for both consumers and businesses I struggle with this idea that there will be “no consumer products” in the market. There will be.

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zsoltkacsandi 41 minutes ago | parent [-]

There will be, but the question who will be able to afford it.

It’s like saying that there is no housing crysis in several countries because the market is full of houses, apartments, etc.

	▲	infecto 40 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		You’re making what seems like a zero sum assumption. I am still using my M1 MacBook for work. I have a first version Mac Studio at home and countless other devices laying around. The world will continue to move forward and yes purchasing will slow down but folks will still be using their existing phones, laptops and other devices.

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dannyw an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There’s always going to be consumer products, even if the value proposition is worse.

If there’s a silver lining, I hope it leads to more optimisation, less Electron, and less bloat.

Typed from my 8GB MacBook Neo; which is honestly plenty fast enough. It “feels” like a 16GB windows laptop, even tho of course I know it’s not, but there’s something about optimisation.

	▲	dgellow an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Lots of more niche products than Apple’s laptop won’t exist for a while due to the price of hardware. At a smaller scale the inflation hardware companies experience is really, really massive
	▲	KingOfCoders an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		And a 4gb Linux machine.

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the8472 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They can sell the AI products to write memory-optimized software to replace React apps.

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snovv_crash an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Tragedy of the commons.

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microtonal 43 minutes ago | parent [-]

Neither consumer products nor RAM are really commons?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

	▲	fwip 41 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		If anything, it's the tragedy of econ 101.

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amelius an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

The AI companies will sell those products to us. Locked down and all.