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.

While it’s true that the big players don’t use consumer grade hardware, there is an actual shortage of consumer grade stuff. This is pushing prices of whole computers, laptops, phones and hardware such as gpus and ram sticks to high prices.

The reason is there’s only a few companies creating high end memory, storage and processing chips like cpus and gpus. These companies have in the past 2 years shifted their manufacturing capabilities to creating just the high margin enterprise stuff. This at the cost of producing the lower end low margin consumer stuff. For a while we were coasting on existing stock, but once that began to ran out, prices started going up real fast.

Big players like Dell, Lenovo and HP for example bought up a whole lot of hardware so they could have a 2026 lineup of products. This again further pushed up prices for consumer hardware, especially memory. And even these companies are struggling with getting enough supplies for a 2027 range. So expect prices to go up further the next couple of months. Although in the consumer space we are seeing prices stabilize, because demand has fallen off hard, not many people can or are willing to afford as much as the asking price.

I agree totally it’s fucking bullshit and all of the AI speculation impacting the rest of the markets so hard is a real issue, the shortages are real and not just market speculation.