The LG C5 and Apple’s M4 Mac Mini are both steeply discounted this weekend https://thever.ge/UKSC #VergeShopping #Desktops #Gadgets #Apple #Deals #Tech
#Desktops
GNOME 49.3 Desktop Released with More Improvements and Bug Fixes
GNOME 50 Alpha Is Now Available for Public Testing as a Wayland-Only Release
Examining DDR4 PC build options in 2026 — With high DDR5 prices, a PC build with DDR4 is worth considering, especially if you have RAM you can carry over from a previous build
Dell's mega award-winning 34-inch Alienware QD-OLED gaming monitor drops to $499 all-time low pricing — grab yours in today's clearance sale
This HP Omen 45L gaming PC at $1,245 off is the cheapest way to bag an RTX 5090 graphics card — massive New Year code saving makes the whole PC cheaper than buying the card by itself
The RAM shortage’s silver lining: Less talk about “AI PCs” https://arstechni.ca/uuB2 #generativeai #Desktops #laptops #Biz&IT #apple #Tech #dell #IDC #AI
KDE Plasma 6.5.5 Is Out, Improves Support for Older Valve Index VR Headsets
KDE Plasma 6.6 Desktop Environment Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing
DIY PC maker Framework's desktops finally succumb to RAM apocalypse, hit with price increase — now starts at $1,139 with 32GB, 128GB up $450
@adr Granted, just by the hardware parts they'd loose out if they were to sell at €749 (you can thank the #AIbubble as well as #RAM & #NAND - #Tripol #Cartel and lack of #regulation for that).
- OFC #retailers also want their margin, and unless one's in a position like #Apple, the #retail margin will be 10-20% depending on the market, whether it's a #online or in-presence stores or whatever. And that is already a low margin.
Everyone who expects this a €499 box is fucking dellusional at this point, because with the current memory prices and expected developments people would just buy truckloads of them to harvest the #GabeCube for it's #RAM, #SSD & #VRAM and scrap the rest.
- Cuz already we're seeing the #RAM sticks that would be in it to cost €250+ and unlike #Sony or #Microsoft this isn't a #SBC they can sell at a loss unless they want to break their advertising promises and risk expensive #ClassActionLawsuits in #SueHappy #USA and extremely high return rates in the #EU respectably.
If the #GabeCube is competitive priced if not cheaper than equivalent #Desktops and #Servers then we'd see every #business with "strategic procurement" just buy literal truckloads expecting #DRAM & #Flash prices to not come down this upgrade cycle (aka. within 5 years) but still needing some machines to work with as the heightened prices - like the #ChipShortage before - will strangulate the #UsedMarket.
- I kid you not, we'd rather see #scalpers and #businesses equipping employees with cash, credit cards and high-value gift cards just to pick shelves clean (just like it happens with #GPUs because that shit is now hotter on the black market than "research chemicals" because it has less risk and higher payouts).
So do expect the #Gabecube to cost way more than €749 + VAT and closer to €999 than €749 since #Poland has a low #VAT / #GST rate and is a 'low income' place (compared to the EU-Average)...
- The €749 would've been more realistic by the time it was announced but the €499 never were for any non-closed system subsidized harder than the #PS3.
Get an entire RTX 5090 gaming PC for the same price as the GPU alone — $3,599 rig includes 9700X, 32GB of RAM, and a 2TB SSD in MSI's PC deal
Budgie 11 Desktop Environment Will Be Ported to Qt 6, Development Kicks Off
Budgie 10.10 Desktop Environment Released as the First Wayland-Only Version
KDE Plasma 6.6 Desktop Is Coming on February 17th, Here’s What to Expect
I replaced Windows with Linux and everything’s going great https://thever.ge/KsC3 #Microsoft #Desktops #PCGaming #Windows #Gaming #Linux #Tech
Apple-1 ‘Prototype Board #0’ system is expected to fetch $500,000+ at a 50th Anniversary auction — and the firm’s first ever check is valued at the same amount
Major Japanese electronics store begs customers for their old PCs as hardware drought continues — ‘we pretty much buy any PC’ pleads the Akihabara outlet
Score a speedy gaming PC with an RTX 5060 and 32GB of RAM for less than $1,000 — ABS machine unlocks 1080p gameplay with a 10-core Intel CPU and 1TB of storage
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