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After RAM and SSDs, PSUs and CPU coolers are next in line for price hikes (www.notebookcheck.net)
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[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 87 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

Are you all ready for subscription based PCs? Because they are going to make sure that's the only way you can afford decent hardware.

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 28 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Or it'll be like buying a used car, 36 monthly payments and your PC will finally be yours!

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 weeks ago

I think we're already there.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago

More like you'll access better hardware over the web with a subscription fee.

[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 13 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I can hook you up right now with a solid Dell Optiplex 9010, your choice Windows or Linux, just $15.99 a month lease. If anything goes wrong with the hardware, we'll send you a new one and you just ship the old one back.

*Not responsible for lost data due to failure to use proper backup strategies.

[–] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

I'd recommend to dystopia a bit harder - if this type of CaaS happens, I expect you won't get to lay a finger on any real local computing hardware. I think you'd have a computing equivalent of a Raspberry Pi which is DRM-locked to a specific service provider's cloud computing services, and a remote desktop or streaming GPU service.

[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 1 points 4 weeks ago

I'll absofuckinglutely assist in providing an alternative.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 1 points 4 weeks ago

I mean, at that point it's ethical to raid data centers

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

And NVidia are ramping up their subsciption prices already...

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Nvidia already does this with their game streaming service. Buy cheap hardware for yourself, then play games as if you're running a 5090.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

But eventually you won't have a choice. They will make they hardware entirely unaffordable.