PCs Getting Expensive Again, Say Analysts

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well im happy with my current build so i dont have to spend more just to "keep up" with the best...true pc builders and fanatics know when is the best time to build and at what time to incorporate their add ons and upgrades.... I will wait for some prices to decrease and build....
 
"Prices are rising everywhere, not just the US. Even here in Japan, where the yen is really strong, memory has risen in price quite a bit."

Great feedback! That shows that supply really is the factor here, or at least that the US dollar is not to blame (anymore than it is to blame for everything else.)
there may be something to the price fixing idea, we all know that goes on all the time in the PC industry. We only hear about it when a company has to admit wrongdoing because of a dispute settlement. How often do you suppose price fixing goes on unreported? I'd hazard a guess and say a whole boatload.
 
I also remember buying 4 gigs last year for 40 bucks, I just bought the same OCZ reaper kit for $100. Although I did get a $30 MIR, I noticed most ddr2 1066 and 800 kits going for $95-100, and the same for 4 gigs DDR3. Id say for most of us, that's a 100% increase.
 
[citation][nom]buzznut[/nom]I also remember buying 4 gigs last year for 40 bucks, I just bought the same OCZ reaper kit for $100. Although I did get a $30 MIR, I noticed most ddr2 1066 and 800 kits going for $95-100, and the same for 4 gigs DDR3. Id say for most of us, that's a 100% increase.[/citation]

Same here. I bought the same OCZ Reaper 1066 4GB kit last March for $36, now it's $109 "if" it's even in stock anymore...
 
In addition to hardware, I noticed a $50 price jump on PC's with Windows 7. Some stores even had the same model with Vista sitting right next to the new machines. The Vista machines were not reduced in price. This was most evident in the $299 laptops.
 
Here in europe the euro hasnt changed much but prices have gone up for memory as well, still my well over a year old pc with upper mainstream components can play almost any game on 1680 x 1050. So that remark that you dont have to buy a good pc goes quite some time now :)
still I agree with the article, prices will go up again, because the economy will rise and with that prices for luxury will go up.
 
[citation][nom]g00ey[/nom]It's not the PCs that are getting expensive, it's the dollar that is getting worthless.[/citation]

i totally agree and also i would like to add that all these companies are just getting greedy. computers are like drugs and no matter how expensive they will get the people will continue to buy the at the marked prices. take a look at the price for gas, we got used with the idea of paying over $3 for a gallon of gas so no one is doing anything about it. all they say is that it's now the economy fluctuates. america is not as economically powerful that it used to be. once we start outsourcing everything to the 3rd world countries then maybe we will be as powerful as we once were. these days the dollar is worthless, at times i am ashamed to say that i am an american, especially with all the greed going on in Afghanistan and Iraq. Some people up top are definitely making some money.
 
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and then the companies feel entitled to the same profits they had before. Look at the financial districts, legislation comes out to protect consumers from aggressive and unfair rate hikes and all they lending companies do is accelerate their hikes to make more money now. Pisses me off to no end. Its time to wait for a little while longer and only pay cash and get less computer. Hmmmmm, anyone else bummed now?
 
[citation][nom]g00ey[/nom]It's not the PCs that are getting expensive, it's the dollar that is getting worthless.[/citation]
Agreed +1
 
correction: once we stop outsourcing everything to the 3rd world countries then maybe we will be as powerful as we once were. these days the dollar is worthless, at times i am ashamed to say that i am an american, especially with all the greed going on in Afghanistan and Iraq. Some people up top are definitely making some money.
 
The financial services sector needs to be allowed to collapse. It is populated by people who do little more than move money around, skimming a cut off the top. They produce nothing of value, yet are paid vast sums of money. They're just gamblers. All the money they're paid has to come from somewhere, and that's us, through higher prices on real goods and services. These "gamblers" make big campaign contributions though, so I'm not holding my breath.
 
[citation][nom]joshthor[/nom]not suprised... about the memory part anyway last year ddr3 was just budding and ddr2 was super cheap, now ddr3 is being the norm and less ddr2 is being made so the prices increased drasticly for ddr2 and decreased slightly for ddr3[/citation]


Try looking up some prices for quality DDR1 ram (say 400). 2x1GB of Corsair XMS will run you more then 4GB of faster DDR2. Its not that less people are making DDR2. AFAIK, almost noone is making *quality* DDR2 anymore - maybe just some mainstream stuff.

Also, I wander how Intels outrageous core i7 prices have influenced these statistics.

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After reading this article, just out of plain curiosity I looked at my newegg order history for my build last May. I paid $90 for a 6GB triple channel mem kit and now the price is at $175. Holy price jump batman!
 
There is no way in hell that I will buy any computer components until the prices settle back down. They can rot in the warehouses for all I care. This is the first time in years I have absolutely no desire to buy or upgrade.

My money will go towards better things during this time instead of paying 200% more than what the computer hardware prices were just six months ago.
 
Prices are definitely going up. I took advantage of Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales as well as other holiday season specials. Instead of the usual $700.00, I wound up spending $1,024.00. That's without a new video card. I used one from my old rig.
 
[citation][nom]grillz9909[/nom]I agree, but when has green printed paper ever really been 'worth' anything?[/citation]
Since you and every member of society agreed it had value.
 
I don't agree with the analysts on this one. Half the analysts are always wrong anyway (ie stock picks and market direction) so just because some analysts said PC prices will go up doesn't mean anything to me. If the economy is still recovering, sales of PCs or components will obviously not be tearing up the charts so to speak so it doesn't make sense to me that someone can say "Oh no one's buying, so let's raise prices." or "Oh, more people are jobless so let's raise prices."

Okay, memory prices are rising but that seems more like a normal bounce from the way they fell in price last year. Their prices might peak in a few months and then they'll level off or even come back down when manufacturers ramp up production but I don't believe memory can continue to climb up. Consumers expect to pay $60-$75 for 4 Gigs RAM and anything higher, people will just wait to upgrade.
Analysts could just be wanting to drive up sales, trying to get people to buy now "before the prices go up".

 
I agree, but when has green printed paper ever really been 'worth' anything?
>Since you and every member of society agreed it had value.

>>This is why counterfeiting can bring 3 decades in the clink.
 
[citation][nom]HundredIslandsBoy[/nom]I don't agree with the analysts on this one. Half the analysts are always wrong anyway (ie stock picks and market direction) so just because some analysts said PC prices will go up doesn't mean anything to me. If the economy is still recovering, sales of PCs or components will obviously not be tearing up the charts so to speak so it doesn't make sense to me that someone can say "Oh no one's buying, so let's raise prices." or "Oh, more people are jobless so let's raise prices."Okay, memory prices are rising but that seems more like a normal bounce from the way they fell in price last year. Their prices might peak in a few months and then they'll level off or even come back down when manufacturers ramp up production but I don't believe memory can continue to climb up. Consumers expect to pay $60-$75 for 4 Gigs RAM and anything higher, people will just wait to upgrade.Analysts could just be wanting to drive up sales, trying to get people to buy now "before the prices go up".[/citation]
Well said.
 
[citation][nom]grillz9909[/nom]I agree, but when has green printed paper ever really been 'worth' anything?[/citation]

It's a value representation for work done issued by the authorized body (fed bank or whatever). The green paper (made of recycled jeans, not wood pulp) as you're calling it, has no value in itself but represents value, so you can trade it for goods or work done.
 
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