If you want to buy a new computer and you’re waiting for prices to go down, you should probably stop waiting and just buy it now. It’s gonna get worse before it gets better.
T3 Stack creator Theo Browne advises buying computer hardware now, warning that pricing will worsen before it improves
He warns buyers against waiting for upcoming discounts.
Some users enjoyed the satirical claim that chip costs will double every two years and backed buying computers now, while many others rejected the price-rise predictions as unrealistic or classist.
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New Moore’s law:
The cost to buy a chip doubles approximately every 2 years, while the number of people who can afford them drops by 50%
@theo „The night is darkest just before the dawn. And I promise you, the dawn is coming.“ -Batman
If you want to buy a new computer and you’re waiting for prices to go down, you should probably stop waiting and just buy it now. It’s gonna get worse before it gets better.

@kitlangton I wish I came up with this. So good.

@theo Poore's law

@theo Wait why is it happening then if people can't afford it.

@theo The goal is the make the poor suffer. Peak classism

@theo I’ve been holding off on buying M5 MacBook Pro to replace my aging M1 Air, but honestly after the price increase I might do it ASAP

@theo I got an "in between" PC waiting for AM6/DDR6 (this was pre-AI boom, when it looked 1-1.5yrs away) and now I deeply regret not splurging for a maxed out system
On the bright side I did get a 3090 ~6 months pre lowest lows before the GPT boom that I could sell got a profit

@theo I stg if the cost of chocolate chip cookies doubles…

@theo is Memory pricing the only reason behind the skyrocketing prices of MacBooks?

@theo Why would it get better? I'm trying to be optimistic but I don't see the light at the end of the tunnel.

@PrimePolymath @theo No also SSD 😜

@f4micom @theo kill the epstein class and ai bubblers?

@MarcoNL88 @theo If AI data center demand collapses by a huge margin, so these RAM manufacturers and storage manufacturers need to sell RAM to people that actually want to buy, so they lower the price again.
Probably wouldn't have happened until at least 2028, and that's optimistic. lol.

@theo @grok what kind of computer hardware do data centers use besides H100s

@theo Wait till people only at frontier labs can afford such h/w. Open models wont be a threat when nobody can run them. Haha, dario would be happy

@theo Good thing I bought my graphics card and 96GB of DDR5 RAM at the end of 2025, today they're worth their weight in gold.

@theo Man… 😭 I’ve been wanting to buy a new laptop for half a year at this point, but that shit already cost half my monthly salary before the price hikes.

@theo Interesting. They updated/raised the prices of items I put in my bag a few days ago. Missed opportunity for me.

@theo I don’t think it will get “better” I think those days are long gone.