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PerpetualCycle · Thursday at 6:59 PM

I think I will just wait and see

cheaterslick · Thursday at 7:19 PM

gunrunnerjohn said:
I remember the nickel candy bar, but it was a very long time ago, I was in my 20's when the price went up to a dime.

Well I remember the spoke wheel. I also remember walking 2 miles to school every morning in my bare feet. :wink:

nuck..nuck...nuck...

Scannerman · Thursday at 11:28 PM

cheaterslick said:
Well I remember the spoke wheel. I also remember walking 2 miles to school every morning in my bare feet.

nuck..nuck...nuck...

up hill. both ways!

AK6DN · Monday at 12:57 AM

Scannerman said:
Meanwhile, the demand for RAM @ the corporate level increases:

NVIDIA CEO Has Good News for Micron and SanDisk Investors: “The Memory Shortage to Continue for Several Years”

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang, speaking from South Korea tonight after Friday’s brutal chip sell-off, told investors that “AI-related stocks are very cheap right now.” More importantly for memory bulls, he framed the AI supply crunch as a multi-year condition, an unmistakably positive...

finance.yahoo.com

XxXxX · Monday at 1:26 AM

AK6DN said:
NVIDIA CEO Has Good News for Micron and SanDisk Investors: “The Memory Shortage to Continue for Several Years”

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang, speaking from South Korea tonight after Friday’s brutal chip sell-off, told investors that “AI-related stocks are very cheap right now.” More importantly for memory bulls, he framed the AI supply crunch as a multi-year condition, an unmistakably positive...

finance.yahoo.com

to be perfectly honest i hope AI fails and takes several of these corporations with it
no corporation is ever to big to go bust.

best of luck Steve ..

Scannerman · Monday at 6:17 AM

XxXxX said:
to be perfectly honest i hope AI fails and takes several of these corporations with it
no corporation is ever to big to go bust.

I couldn't agree more. Distribution of wealth is a real thing. So what happens when both the distribution and the production is regulated, controlled, and operated by AI? When artists can't make a dime because AI can do it better and exponentially cheaper, when manufacturing only requires a small fraction of the staff they once required, when authors can no longer make a living writing books, or require AI to do it for them, when students merely let the machine complete their assignments while teachers simply let AI do the marking of the assignments... Where is all the revenue going to come from? Are the machines going to pay the machines?? Will money simply be eliminated? Will a universal living allowance even be enough? Nobody can give what they ain't got so it would stand to reason that a ULA would be inevitable. Will this mark the end of capitalism? Frankly, I think the whole thing stinks.

I likely won't live long enough to see where this goes, but the direction it is taking brings it to an apocalyptic conclusion.

fgr1990 · Monday at 7:44 AM

PCUser said:
@stormy13
Here's an example idea / scenario . . .

If you're an Amazon Prime member, why not login to Amazon.co.uk and buy
Crucial Pro DDR5 RAM 32GB Kit (2x16GB) 6000MHz CL36, Overclocking Gaming, Intel XMP 3.0 / AMD EXPO, Computer Memory (PC), Black - CP2K16G60C36U5B

Amazon.co.uk
166.66 Pound sterling equals
$218.68 United States Dollar

instead of paying $334
Crucial Pro 32GB DDR5 RAM Kit (2x16GB),CL36 6000MHz, Overclocking Desktop Gaming Memory, Intel XMP 3.0 & AMD Expo Compatible, Black - CP2K16G60C36U5B

Amazon.com

Because Amazon is a U.S. company, maybe you'd avoid the tariffs and save some $$$?

Hey!

Just looked at some of the first offers provided in this thread - the cheap one. ~Half a year ago, Nov '25 - £166.66 and today...

£349.99!!

Scannerman · 2026-06-09T10:07:43-0400

From $84 CA to $362 in 6 months.

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But it's 10 cents off, @Josey Wales!!

www.elevenforum.com

Sure. It was DDR4. I won't be buying it anymore.

Scannerman · 2026-06-09T11:10:44-0400

fgr1990 said:
Hey!

Just looked at some of the first offers provided in this thread - the cheap one. ~Half a year ago, Nov '25 - £166.66 and today...

£349.99!!

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Bear in mind that the manufacturer of this RAM (MICRON) no longer caters to the domestic end user. Hopefully they still honour their warranties.

gunrunnerjohn · 2026-06-09T12:51:27-0400

Scannerman said:
Bear in mind that the manufacturer of this RAM (MICRON) no longer caters to the domestic end user. Hopefully they still honour their warranties.

Micron specifically stated in their press release that they would honor the existing warranties.

Scannerman · 2026-06-09T16:12:58-0400

gunrunnerjohn said:
Micron specifically stated in their press release that they would honor the existing warranties.

Pardon my skepticism but that sort of statement leaves plenty of play for legalese. In my view Micron has already abandoned we, the plebs, in favour of catering to they, the corps. What a great service I can look forward to if my RAM fails and the kit that cost me $84 CA is conveniently replaced with the pittance of it's inflated monetary remittance! *NOT* I rather doubt that it would be replaced with the actual physical kit (once upon a time standard policy) boasting the retail cost of over 4X that amount. Nor should I suppose that I would be looking at receiving a current cost remittance. Putting it plainly: "Dear sir, we are sorry your RAM broke. Here's 50 bux. You can now go purchase the same RAM for $450. A pleasure doing business."

gunrunnerjohn · 2026-06-09T19:00:42-0400

Scannerman said:
Pardon my skepticism but that sort of statement leaves plenty of play for legalese. In my view Micron has already abandoned we, the plebs, in favour of catering to they, the corps. What a great service I can look forward to if my RAM fails and the kit that cost me $84 CA is conveniently replaced with the pittance of it's inflated monetary remittance! *NOT* I rather doubt that it would be replaced with the actual physical kit (once upon a time standard policy) boasting the retail cost of over 4X that amount. Nor should I suppose that I would be looking at receiving a current cost remittance. Putting it plainly: "Dear sir, we are sorry your RAM broke. Here's 50 bux. You can now go purchase the same RAM for $450. A pleasure doing business."

I guess you can believe what you like. Micron is in the business of making money, so when the whole market moved to AI datacenters they logically went that way.

AK6DN · 2026-06-09T20:07:11-0400

Scannerman said:
... In my view Micron has already abandoned we, the plebs, in favour of catering to they, the corps...

Oh pleeze. Micron is a corporation, beholden to their shareholders. Not a non profit organization. They go where the market and profit is. Capitalism 101. Same with Intel, AMD, Apple, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and the rest of them. Google began with a "Don't be evil" bylaw. Abandoned in 2018, as being evil proved more profitable.

SIW2 · 2026-06-09T23:10:52-0400

XxXxX · 2026-06-09T23:49:05-0400

i dont blame him for being a tad upset and i hope he posts the results of the court case.
best of luck Steve ..

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