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Being down 40% is nothing compared to how you used to be able to get a PC that is many times more capable of one from a few years ago for half the price. As fo
by ryao 2y ago
Being down 40% is nothing compared to how you used to be able to get a PC that is many times more capable of one from a few years ago for half the price.
As for NAND flash SSDs, the Intel X25-M came out in 2008:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/2614 https://www.anandtech.com/show/2614
- Retric 2y agoBeing available isn’t becoming mainstream. Most new computers in 2011 still had HDD due to cost. Similarly, the average price people actually paid for a PC didn’t suddenly drop by half over 3 years as you proposed. Over 15 years that kind of price declines would mean people when from 4k in 2025 dollars to 125$ which simply didn’t happen. I could cherry pick numbers suggesting opposite trends. nVidia’s top of the line card more than doubled in price when adjusted for inflation between 1999 and now. But back then most people didn’t even buy 3D graphics cards and today integrated graphics is by far the most common.