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The point of shitty old processors was to get them cheap. Now that RAM and storage are the biggest factors, they could have gone with newer processors and not be significantly more expensive but significantly more performant.
It's weird how supply chains work, and how design changes are at the very start of a very long process that makes changing the design now a very costly, risky thing.
Not now. When RAM prices started skyrocketing. That wasn't only today or yesterday.
Were you 100% certain this problem was going to last as long as it has? Yeah, neither was anyone else.
Eh, the writing was on the wall the moment DRAM manufacturers refused to expand capacity and instead stopped consumer sales in favour of corporate batch sales.
Many people were expecting the AI bubble to last well into 2029
Of course. And it will last for years.