To the data centers! Liberate RAM, for the people!
this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2026
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Personal ownership was so pre-2020s anyways.
I can spend $800 on something I can use for years and resell, gift, or repurpose. Or, I can instead spend $180 annually under the threat of my data being destroyed if I stop giving into the extortion. Easy choice, really. /s
Stop whining, in 1985 I paid $400 for 256 kilobyte RAM for my Amiga 1000, AND I WAS HAPPY!
You kids nowadays are spoiled, with 100,000 times more RAM if you have an average build with 16 GB RAM and 8 GB VRAM.
But the Amiga was still more fun than modern computers.
Is it me? Or is it the kids that are wrong?
Hmmm... 🤔 ...
It must be the kids. 😋
Is it me? Or is it the kids that are wrong?
Nah, you're both right. When that Amiga was out, if you wanted entertainment, you have to leave the house, go to a movie, god ~85, you might not even have had a VCR.
That Amiga was the greatest, most useful and entertaining thing on the market.
Now a days, a shitty c-rate cellphone can bring you every movie, tv show, song, idiot with a camera that you'd ever want to experience.
Maybe not. It's like car enthusiasts refusing any modern car, especially EV that are on paper much more powerful but less fun to tinker and go down country roads.
But but but but my timing gun! And the points, plugs, and condenser! And the distributor cap! I NEED those to make my car worth driving and life worth living. /s
I do not require a combustion chamber in my sports car. I do however, prefer a curb weight under 1500 kg, which happens to exclude the vast majority of cars for sale in North America, even sporty ones, and EV sports cars under 1500 kg are very difficult to find indeed.
… I do however, prefer a curb weight under 1500 kg…
Why?
And don’t you mean pounds?
kg
1500lb would be ~680kg; that is serious race car territory. Not road legal these days; but a 1975 Fiat 500 weighed 500kg.
Many years ago, I had a 1992 Honda civic hatch; after looking it up; weighed 925kg.
Apollo A6000 review: the ultimate 68K Amiga, rebuilt for the modern age
The Apollo A6000 ships with 2 GB of Fast RAM
It succeeds where emulation cannot, delivering the tactile, hardware‑level experience of owning a new Amiga‑class machine in 2025/2026.
https://www.apollo-computer.com/a6000.php
:-)
Wow that's pretty cool, I thought M68k series ended with 68060!
I still have an old Amiga 500 that my wife bought for me many years ago, because I never shut up about how superior Amiga was back in the day, and how amazing it was to program M68k assembly direct to hardware on it.
The highest power Amiga I ever had was a 68030 expansion card to an Amiga 2000. Then I stupidly switched to PC, because that was the future. But the PC killed my interest in programming, because it's only semi open, not open like the Amiga was.
I was getting excited... until I read the price :/
$1200 USD.
Well, very on brand for Amiga to be $$$.
I think I'll wait for the TheA1200 or failing that, buy an old clunker and stick a PiStorm into it.
Okay grandma let's get you to bed...
I literally ran into this guy while on a hike just last week. He made it a point to tell me that people with degrees don't know shit too. Interesting character.
In their special area they generally do, outside that they are probably like most people with an IQ above 100.
AFAIK Amigas are still in service in a few places, especially music studios.
i am so ready for this to be over. i've been on the market for an upgrade for a while now but i refuse to let myself get scammed. this is pure disgust.
Not that it matters anymore. GN summarised it best stating that we're already long past the point where the extortionate prices matter to even enthusiast consumers who wouldn't buy this shit at 3x MSRP anyway. Even prebuilts are selling empty case 'kits' to keep inventory moving.
That is also why I am pessimisic about prices ever coming down to previous level. Best case it halves and people will cheer, and it will still cost way more than before.
the prices would already have stabilized or come down if we were at the choke point, as long as inventory is moving it will stay like this. Production is shifted to data center memory and even if all the AI and data center investment stops tomorrow it will take months to a year to shift any production back to consumer RAM.
Also worth comparing to graphics cards here. After the crypto mining boom, prices didn’t drop significantly. Expensive cards were just the new baseline because gamers need graphics cards and do not have many alternatives to look elsewhere.
But I haven't baught a graphics card sinse before the crypto boom 🤔
Dram spot prices have been going up for a long while now, it has just slowed down a liitle bit, but you can view them here: https://www.dramexchange.com/
Idc I want those companies begging for my dollar on ten plus years.
I bought 128gb of DDR5 RDIMMs, cost about $4,200 or so. Considering that all new DDR5 for 2027 has already been bought by the corpos, odds are that this is going to be relatively cheap until the bubble pops.
On the...positive?...side, odds are that I can sell my old 128gb DDR4 machine for quite a few pennies.
Note that this is specific to Germany (or, probably, the EU, but they're using Germany as a benchmark). German DDR5 prices had started coming back down slightly earlier in the year
I remember articles earlier in the year commenting on that. According to this article, they're now drifting back up again, albeit slowly.
I don't know if "explode" is really the right term. The price changes since the initial increase around late 2025 and early 2026 haven't really been dramatic.
They probably found a price that is just at the point before sales are collapsing entirely and are now calibrating how far they can go but being already at the limit there is no space for a price explosion anymore. ... but maybe I am mistaken, who knows.
Had AI inflation not taken hold, I think most budget builders would still be opting for DDR4, so this headline feels like a non-sequitur to me.