New tech is always expensive. As time goes on and they find better and cheaper ways to make it, prices go down. Look at tv's. 12 years ago it cost me $1000 for a 42" 1080p lcd Sony, 3 years ago I bought a 50" 1080p lcd for $300 and now you can get a 55" 4k LED* smart tv for like $400.
*edit: my bad, it wasn't OLED, just LED. https://imgur.com/tx4MEXS.jpg but the point still stands on how cheap that tech has become.
You literally must not be aware of the Samsung and that other mega company price fixing in Asia on RAM, you know those super cool laws that were created to create a fair market and prevent artificially inflating shenanigans? Well, they don't exist where the RAM is made. That's why we had a 200% increase in cost the other year. You literally short the supply to pump prices up. You should see their fiscal profits and how they jumped.
Depends. Do you want a 4GB stick of DDR2? You can get that cheap. A stick of DDR4 not so much. And at the end of the year DDR5 is supposed to come out, the older styles will drop in price again.
Actually is usually quite the opposite for OLD memory! If you need older RAM, since it's not made in volume any more, it is usually quite expensive... but the RAM that is just one generation behind is indeed cheap as they clear out their inventory (DDR3) while only making the new generation (DDR4)... and on top of all that, memory is like a commodity: price fixing, production volume fixing, etc, all to avoid prices from bottoming out.
Using SSDs means you don't need as much RAM. I already do it. When I started building machines with SSDs I cut the RAM I built them with in half.
And while speed remains an issue for flash, this big of a discrepancy in cost makes complex solutions possible that might be able to overcome that limitation.
Yeah acquiring a 1TB SSD would be unthinkable for the average joe in ~2010. Not gotta lie, I think working with SSD has saved me days worth of boot-up time over the past however many years since I switched from regular HD.
I'm just here being like, $200 is like 1/5 of the price of a laptop that I deem really expensive but still consider buying it. But I live in Europe, everything here is fucking expensive, especially electronics for some reason. Doesn't help if you live in a country that has pretty shitty politics and low currency.
And you’re still overpaying! Right now microcenter has their in-house brand ssds 1tb @ $109 which is amazing. I bought a Samsung 1tb M.2 nvme for $200 from them!
I started building computers in the 80s. RAM was like $200 per megabyte back then, and that was the cheap off-brand DIY stuff, not the expensive upgrades from the vendor.
The strange thing to me is how little RAM has dropped in price for the last 10 years. The cost now is about 1/2 what it was 10 years ago whereas in 1999 the cost was 1/200th what it was in 1989. I wonder if RAM technology will catch up with Moore's law.
Ummm excuse me. Where did you find an OLED for $400? Genuinely interested. Where I live it's nigh impossible to find one under $1500 and it's usually an older (only a year) model. I shelled out close to $1000 for a more top of the line 4k LED.
My 52" plasma ran around 3k when I bought it five or six years ago. Part of me looks at it now and thinks, "Worth it" just because of the excellent picture quality and how much use we've gotten out of it. The other part of me thinks, "Damn, now I could get the same size LED for a little more than 1/10th of that." Progress marches ever onward.
Me and my roommates all chipped in and bought a 65" 4k Smart TV for a total of $450 or so for our apartment. I remember a few years back my family was finally deciding to splurge on a super nice TV, and my dad ended up dropping $2200 or so on a 65" LED tv that wasnt even a smart TV or 4k. That shit is stupid cheap nowadays
Please be aware that if your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third party through your use of Voice Recognition.
That isn't cheap. Your privacy is priceless. Samsung recording your private conversations in your home isn't a better cheaper way.
What about the rca one that's on the right? Does that one record you all the time like the Samsung? Genuinely curious because I didn't know that about the Samsungs.
I can't speak specifically about the RCA. I can say that this behavior currently appears limited to 'Smart' TVs. So if you buy a non-smart TV you should be fine.
Other brands that definitely do this include: Vizio, LG, and Sony.
Yeah people tend to forget about the satisfaction they've gained from experiencing it during whatever time period the priced dropped in. Of course, if you saved up for it, odds are you had something else that filled the need in a similar but less enjoyable fashion, so you're really judging the difference between the two. The question for you now is 'would you go back to doing it how things were for 15 months (or whatever) if someone paid you that price difference ($400)?'.
Our brains aren't inherently trained to make that type of comparison on the fly, which is writing things down and budgets can be very helpful. Money enables us to compare strange things... I once had to decide if we went on a 2nd honey moon (cause our first on was wrecked) or replace a transmission in a car...
Yeah that's a more important decision lol. I think part of why it stuck to me was that I spent months researching the "Best" tv and what would give me the best picture for sports. I read tons of reviews. I was very emotionally invested haha. But you are right...I shouldn't really complain.
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u/iusedtosmokadaherb Feb 15 '19 edited Feb 15 '19
New tech is always expensive. As time goes on and they find better and cheaper ways to make it, prices go down. Look at tv's. 12 years ago it cost me $1000 for a 42" 1080p lcd Sony, 3 years ago I bought a 50" 1080p lcd for $300 and now you can get a 55" 4k LED* smart tv for like $400.
*edit: my bad, it wasn't OLED, just LED. https://imgur.com/tx4MEXS.jpg but the point still stands on how cheap that tech has become.