PCs Getting Expensive Again, Say Analysts

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Then it's the same for gold and silver other than to make shiny rings and necklaces so you can go bling bling. At least you can eat paper (probably) if you had to, like starving deer eating bark, but you can't eat gold.
 
This estimated increase is all due to the rise in memory costs, figured to be 23-percent higher this year than compared to 2009, reported the Financial Times.
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The memory (2 1gig DDR2 1066 sticks) I bought last year for $31 was up to $80+ for Christmas and now it is at $50. $25 bucks a gig. However, I eventually plan on buying it cause 'captain, I need more power!'

 
memory is always cheapest in May/June (has been true for 10+ years). Always most expensive in Nov/Dec/Jan. Manufacturers cut back capacity - that "free" memory you got last year was below cost - so when plants moved to DDR3 (which costs a bundle to convert), they didn't leave much DDR2 capacity. Costs are dropping on 4GB DIMMs - manufacturers want to move up the chain, because there is more profit there.
 
Lets see...
Core i7 and i5 are overpriced...


Memory companies seem to be holding back on stock to drive up prices..
(If you've been paying attention prices have gone up while supply is down I smell an illegal alliance.)

Perfect example: Visit Zipzoomfly.com and you will see how all of the lower priced memory options are no longer available while the more expensive kits are in stock.


And why are all of the rest of the items in short supply? Go ahead consider it a conspiracy theory if you want. But if you know your competition is only going to put out 2,000 LCDs why would you put out 5,000 when you can hold back to create demand and drive prices UP.

corporate as5holes
 
Eh. Doesn't affect me much. I just installed Windows 7 on my two year old Core 2 Duo system, added a new ATi 57xx GPU for $140 and now I'm set for another year or two.
 
I tried to convince my company to buy a bunch of RAM for future upgrades when it was dirt cheap a year ago. Now that the price has tripled, they decide to upgrade the RAM on all of our PCs to 4Gig. I love how the suits think :)
 
This year is going be the last year of hyper inflation. Prepare for the biggest price hike in American history, thanks to Obama cap n trade bill. Just like everybody said, American dollar is useless and I fear that this year will be the last year for American dollar.

Buy gold, not computers. 😛
 
Gotta love Supply & Demand. Cheaper components made demand go up, which put strains on the supply side. Now that Supply has gone down, price will go back up as it has, and demand will taper off before equilibrium is reached again. Isn't economics fun, kids?
 
For the most part prices are still lower than what I rememeber. I never thought the low prices we had for a while there were going to last. Now that we can add more memory to our machines with 64-bit OSes becoming more common, it only makes sense they would capitalize on it. All in all the prices will adjust and stabilize in the next 2 months or so.
 
This is bad news for me considering I'm in the market for new hardware. From my searches prices don't seem to be that high although my local Microcenter just increased the cost of i7920 and i5750 considerably (however they were way cheap before). From $200 to 229 and $150 to 189 respectively. Still not bad :)
 


Calm down! It's not that serious. You can always try Newegg's open boxw item (30 day warranty but it's enough time to know if the part eill fail) with motherboards for $31, come on!
 
things are high because there really isn't that much reason to upgrade as often.

back then when one were using a single core processor, of course it was a problem because it ran on a single thread. but today, having at least one additional thread is more then enough for a lot of things. because of this great new enhancement for computers, people are finding it less necessary to upgrade further. people who bought the new intel 1366 or the 1033 or whatever the socket numbers are, will never need to upgrade for like 20-30 years. but of course that won't happen because those who bought those parts are those who are elites and they often upgrade to fit in with the current trend.

 
And it isn't just memory either.
Microcenter raised the cost of a Q9550 from $169 to $229, and get this, the I7 920 went from $199 to...

$229.
 
even with the reduction of supply, that doesn't account for such a large price increase, the companies are just getting greedy. boycott buying hardware until prices go down.

if we boycott the new hardware, game makers wont release harder to run games as it wont fit their target market.

we are in full control so lets show then that we don't like being ripped off.

 
large businesses are generally not stupid enough to make mistakes this large with supply. they have access to stats of the demand.

imagine a company meeting that will lead to a shortage

: Hi everyone, currently we are selling 50 million memory sticks a year
this year we are expected to sell around 50 million sticks also but I was thinking, we should only make 20 million just for the hell of it

with supply and demand, it is usually this way, you make a product, and it sells pretty well but then one day it suddenly becomes really popular and suddenly demand has skyrocketed so now you are in short supply because you never expected this many people to want your product.

It cant happen the other way because if it is your company, you know how much you are selling. (aka you know what the demand is and if you need to scale back, you know how far to scale back with out causing a shortage)

 
LOL, All the people out of work right now and their talking about rising prices, What morons...That will just make a lot of people say screw the upgrade and hang on to that older computer till next year.
 
[citation][nom]pochacco007[/nom]things are high because there really isn't that much reason to upgrade as often. back then when one were using a single core processor, of course it was a problem because it ran on a single thread. but today, having at least one additional thread is more then enough for a lot of things. because of this great new enhancement for computers, people are finding it less necessary to upgrade further. people who bought the new intel 1366 or the 1033 or whatever the socket numbers are, will never need to upgrade for like 20-30 years. but of course that won't happen because those who bought those parts are those who are elites and they often upgrade to fit in with the current trend.[/citation]

CITATION NEEDED
 

I understand what you mean about keeping high-end hardware for a very long time. I'm still using a maxed out P4 Willimete machine form 2001. I don't use windows so I'm not to concerned with things ever getting slow on me. My soon to be built rig will be a quadcore, 8gb drr3 and a 5770. If all goes well I'll expect that machine to easily meat me internet usage and mild gaming for atleast 5-10 years. I sure hope windows 8 or whatever comes soon doesn't need more than 8gb of ram! :pt1cable:
 
The LCD thing is creepy. I'm guessing the shortage on them is from dwindling Indium Tin Oxide (specifically the indium), something that is sourced almost entirely from China. And China is the kind of country that would run a resource to nothing before slowing down. Its been suspected for years that we would run out of it soon.
 
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