PCs stopped being cheap beginning with the Thailand floods years ago, which made hard drives expensive for a while, then crypto and NFTs repeatedly made GPUs costly, and that stupid Chia craze. Then manufacturers started swapping out minute components while keeping prices same or elevated. Now with AI where nVidia and AIBs can game the market in favor of techbros.
PCs stopped being cheap beginning with the Thailand floods years ago, which made hard drives expensive for a while, then crypto and NFTs repeatedly made GPUs costly, and that stupid Chia craze. Then manufacturers started swapping out minute components while keeping prices same or elevated. Now with AI where nVidia and AIBs can game the market in favor of techbros.