… Microsoft has raised prices for all SKUs on offer, meaning the high end models are now more expensive too. A top end Surface Laptop 15-inch with Snapdragon X Elite, 64GB RAM and 1TB SSD storage now costs a staggering $3,649. …
… Microsoft just suffered the worst quarter since the financial crisis in 2008 , raising more concerns among investors about AI turning into a profitable venture. …
… With more and more of Microsoft's attention, infrastructure, and code being written by hallucination-prone artificial intelligence platforms, Microsoft seems to be chasing AI investor hype at the cost of quality and customers. …
… However, the philanthropic billionaire was a tad optimistic that energy experts, biologists, and coders would survive the AI revolution . His premise was simple — coding is too complex to be fully automated, and human intervention remains critical. …
… Omdia indicates that memory and storage costs have increased by 40–70% since 2025, prompting the firm to forecast that 60% increase in the estimate for mainstream PC memory and storage costs in Q1 2026. …
… I've been keeping tabs on PC shipments and hardware prices ever since the AI -driven RAMpocalypse really kicked off in 2025, and there have been plenty of warnings from analysts that spiking costs will crater PC sales in 2026. …
… Now, that restock has finally come...but it's come at a cost. A monetary one — and one that's unfortunately been passed down to buyers like you and I. Indeed, Valve announced a major price increase for the Steam Deck alongside the news that it's once again available to purchase on Wednesday morning. …
… The RAM crisis could extend as far as 2030 With AI datacenters gobbling up the world's supply of DRAM and NAND, memory and storage are a hot commodity. The blooming effects of these supply chain issues are being felt elsewhere, and the cost of almost everything with a processor continues to rise. …
… I'd also argue that this was one of the pain points that pushed Microsoft's multi-billion-dollar partnership with OpenAI into a new definitive agreement , consequently costing it its right of first refusal to be OpenAI’s compute provider. …
… Meanwhile, the AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 model of the HP OmniBook X Flip 14 has greater processing power for taking on heavy workloads than the Intel Core Ultra 5 226V model. How good is it's performance for AI tasks? …