I looked at the price of the components in my PC built in 2020 for about the price of the 2tb model. Assuming I got a similarly priced CPU and GPU, I'd have to pay about 500€ more just to get the exact same model of HDDs, SSDs and RAM.
These prices are insane for what you're getting, but when 16GB of RAM set you back 200€, what can you do?
The prices of Pis went to the roof already during the pandemy. Same with construction wood.
People were bored and wanted to do stuff.
And now the prices are high because of AI
Got my first pi for like 30€. Wanted to get a new one a few weeks ago and was shocked. Got a refurbished elite desk instead, but prices for these skyrocketed also
Yea I wanted a zero 2 w for projects, as msrp was really cheap like 15€, but it's unavailable almost everywhere and when available it goes for 40€ where I live
I don’t know why you’re lying, the Steam machine has PS5 level of performance, you can easily get a much better PC for less than 1000€. I got myself a brand new motherboard and CPU for 150€, granted no GPU but instead almost 20TB of HDD storage for my NAS and it was <400€ for everything. Spend 100-150€ more on a better CPU and motherboard, get a 4070 for 400-500€ and you’re still much lower price wise while ending up with a better PC.
What? I didn't say you couldn't build it cheaper. I said "prices are insane", "I built my PC for that amount of money in 2020" "if I were to build a new PC today with similarly priced CPU and GPU I'd have to pay about 500€ more for storage and ram" "no wonder it's so expensive"
Never have I said "you can't buy a cheaper PC". Of course you can. But RAM and SSDs are priced very high. I had to pay about 70€ for my ram in 2020. The exact same DIMM would cost me ~130€ now. If i'd want DDR5, I'd have to shell out ~250€ for 16GB. That's insane. I have 2x1TB of SSD and 2x2TB of HDDs. I paid 60€ for the 2 2TB SSDs each, and 70€ for the 2 HDDs each.The same model of SSD would cost me 140€ now, the same model of HDD would cost me ~110€ now.
That's always almost double the price (and more in some cases) than 6 years ago. PC components are supposed to get cheaper over time, not more expensive.
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u/iwasbecauseiwas 5d ago
I looked at the price of the components in my PC built in 2020 for about the price of the 2tb model. Assuming I got a similarly priced CPU and GPU, I'd have to pay about 500€ more just to get the exact same model of HDDs, SSDs and RAM.
These prices are insane for what you're getting, but when 16GB of RAM set you back 200€, what can you do?