JFC.
What gets my goat is that the big players don’t even use consumer grade hardware. It’s not fungible.
Pricing like this feels entirely reactive and ridiculous, like when people hoarded toilet paper during covid.
I can only imagine that some smaller labs / universities / businesses are buying up pallet loads of these things and driving the prices up for the average Joe. That plus the eBay tax.
that’s a really good chip for gaming, but you can get it a lot cheaper in the ASUS ROG Flow Z13. the 128gb version will let you run games easily in 1440p, and it’ll set you back around $2700.
I’m looking forward to this being in more laptops, because it’s not bad at all for high-powered, low energy gaming portables.