Mac mini price surge

[Sami13496]

The irony is that prices are basically going up because of AI, and most of the AI features are just gimmicks that we don’t even use. Yet we’re now indirectly paying for all of it.

You pay for AI whether you want it or not.

 

[gigatoaster]

Price rationalisation gets you nowhere. Either you need the product, either you don’t. If you’re asking it for yourselves, maybe that means initially you can’t afford it.

 

[gusping]

The irony is that prices are basically going up because of AI, and most of the AI features are just gimmicks that we don’t even use. Yet we’re now indirectly paying for all of it.

You pay for AI whether you want it or not.

Don't worry, productivity is going up massively along with the AI spend. Oh wait....

https://twitter.com/x/status/2093103130624045174

 

[klasma]

What I want to know is why costs for all parts of the supply chain seem to be going up. I understand (even if I find it reprehensible) why we have a RAM and solid state storage shortage, but we have products whose main components are not dominated by RAM and SSDs being increased in selling price by 15 to 50%.

Wholesale prices for DRAM have increased to 6.5x of what they were at the low point last year, and NAND to 5x. It’s even starker on the spot market, where you see 9x and 8x increases respectively.

Most of the new DRAM fabs being built won’t hit full production until 2028, so the situation will remain dire until then. For NAND (SSDs), the situation should already improve a bit earlier, in 2027. However, “improvement” doesn’t imply that we’ll ever return to 2024 price levels.