Death of affordable computing | Tariffs impact and investigation
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28611045
gamers nexus just dropped a 3 hour video where they talk to various companies involved in the consumer PC space, some of whom really open up about their costs and economics and how operating in america just isnt feasible under the current tariffs
Death of affordable anything.
And also freedom, democracy, privacy, etc.
I'm still only a little over halfway through the documentary, but here are the main new things I've learned so far:
Everything about this seems almost designed to murder small businesses.
Those with enough capital backing, resources and funds can take the hit, maybe cut some expenses, shedding crocodile tears about how terrible the economic impact of this trade war has affected them while dispassionately watching scores of no-longer-employees pack their things and try to figure out how to tell their kids that the promised trip next month they'd been looking forward to all year is cancelled.
Edit: This might have been ambiguous. I was trying to highlight how big corporations can survive by doing what big business does to protect the bottom line. Small businesses, obviously, can't do that.
I do not envy anyone who is trying to upgrade an aging PC. Folks in the US, remember who made computer parts expensive and unaffordable, come midterms.
I’m glad I did so just before Trump got elected again. I’m also glad I got a GPU when I did, despite the ridiculous cost.
So glad I built my 5800X3D/7900XTX system when I did. It's got plenty of horsepower for the next several years for my usage.
Kinda to glad I was able to move up my plans to build a new PC right when I heard we actually went through with the tariff plan.
Bloody hell, this is a damn documentary.
Somehow everything will become more expensive in Europe too
And somehow those prices won't really drop when the tarriffs are quietly removed.
I'm looking at you, energy prices.
Watch the Louis Rossman segment of the video, where he actually makes a pretty good point about why the price doesn't go back down: https://youtu.be/1W_mSOS1Qts?t=5774
Wtf is that website? Why there are no ads at all, the article is well written without evident use of a LLM and it's extremely thorough in writing? Without even a pause "article continues in the next ad-ridden page". I didn't know that it was technically possible to make websites like that
It's amazing what you can accomplish when not being greedy.
Aka, Gamers Nexus :)
Great video. Steve keeps doing the good journalistic work.
I was going to wait until the 2030s to upgrade my 7700X to whatever is the fastest CPU once the AM5 platform is dead, but now I'm thinking that maybe I should just get a 9950X3D now and ride out this platform until the 2040s.
You and me both
I just shelled out to upgrade my 9 year old PC. Upgraded from an rtx 1060 to 4060. My current i5 is like 9400F and now I am upgrading to a 13400f. I've been wanting to and holding off for a while, but if things are going to get more scarce and more expensive, might as well do it now while I have money to spend.