I share your proclivity. TBH I don't regret it after watching how things have been trending over the years, price-wise and otherwise. I suppose there is something to be said for "future proofing" hardware after all. I make no apology for having more drives in my main than there are letters in the alphabet. I'm perfectly at ease with fully populated RAM slots. The whole TPM2 fiasco taught me a valuable lesson: My PC doesn't have to be obsolete just because MS suggests that it should be. I don't need Windows 11 and I sure don't need AI. Most of what I do can be done on Linux and the Windows apps I use work well enough, if not better, on Windows 7. None of them need me to be online when I use them.
Yup. There seems to be a few of us who managed to beat the silly-con conspiracy before it came to fruition. Call it experience, call it intuition, call it what you will. I have a brand new laptop I haven't even bothered to set up yet but I shudder to think what it would cost today to replace it. The silly thing runs strictly on NVMe and I should have checked to see if it could use SATA before I bought it. I've just been too busy getting the new network up and running on fiber. Meh, I'm not really much of a laptop guy anyway. I just got it for emergencies and analytics.
My new laptop came with 16GB RAM and 2TB of NVMe storage, I figured for the use it gets, that's sufficient. It's just for traveling or when I want to do some lite computing away from the main computer. I haven't gotten to the point that I am willing to live with the crappy keyboard that comes on virtually all laptops, or all the other limitations. It's OK for transient use, but not for everyday usage.
Mine came with 1TB NVMe but that's all I can do with it. I had the same model before and opened it up to see what was in it. I couldn't add an extra stick if I wanted to. Can't complain. The price was right. Based on what NVMe costs now it would be like buying the NVMe and a replacement keyboard. Specs read as follows:
My laptop came with a 2TB NVMe, one of the reasons I picked it. My only complaint is that it doesn't have an Ethernet port, so I had to buy a $15 USB<->Ethernet adapter for fast file transfers when I'm getting ready for a trip.
Just used one of those adapters this weekend on a laptop. It worked really well. I did notice that it got a little warm but it did the job. People keep bringing me laptops to fix and I hate working on the things. lol Yeah, that RJ45 in my case was a bit of a bonus even if the resolution is a little crude. No need to be fussy though. It's snappy enough for what I do with it. All laptops make me appreciate my desktop more.
If they do it won't last long.
Prices are not going to come back down. It is the new normal.
So I keep saying. There will be the usual price fluctuations and competitive reductions, but any real savings to be had will be absorbed by the distributors first before we see any price drops of significance. These will be as rare as hen's teeth. The whole "bubble" concept is just a spin to appease public concern. For as long as there will be a demand for silicon memory prices will remain around what they are or even higher. RAM is a commodity, like oil. The price might drop some but it will never go back to what it was because the economic demands won't allow it to be affordable to manufacture at those prices anymore.
Returning to the previous price may not happen, but coming down to somewhere close is quite possible. These bubbles have happened many times in the past on a variety of commodity items, including memory.
Not always. Price is dependent on demand. If the demand drops significantly because of the high price, the price will come down.
Especially, if they're required to pay taxes on this at tax time.
