A Call For Humor!

[Ropeburn]

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8GB of RAM now:

 

[Berwhale]

It's no joke! I paid £37.99 each for two 16GB SODIMMs delivered on on 13th November last year...

Currently £176 each...

I still have the 4800Mhz SODIMMs unopened in my drawer. I purchased them as a backup when it looked like I wouldn't be able to get 5600Mhz SODIMMs for a reasonable price (I secured a pair of 5600Mhz SODIMMs for £38.97 each the next day). The 4800Mhz are still in their return window, I don't think i'll be sending them back!

 

[Ropeburn]

It's no joke! I paid £37.99 each for two 16GB SODIMMs delivered on on 13th November last year...

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Currently £176 each...

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I still have the 4800Mhz SODIMMs unopened in my drawer. I purchased them as a backup when it looked like I wouldn't be able to get 5600Mhz SODIMMs for a reasonable price (I secured a pair of 5600Mhz SODIMMs for £38.97 each the next day). The 4800Mhz are still in their return window, I don't think i'll be sending them back!

That's some nice emergency money right there, mate... keep it!

 

[popej]

It's no joke! I paid £37.99 each for two 16GB SODIMMs delivered on on 13th November last year...

I used to buy 2x32GB. Why not?
It is not the first time RAM prices going high. Hope we survive it.

 

[Berwhale]

I used to buy 2x32GB. Why not?
It is not the first time RAM prices going high. Hope we survive it.

I would have bought 2x32GB, but the 32GBs did not dip in price like the 16GBs did around the 12th November. I was very lucky to get the 16GBs at the price I did...

 

[Audionaut]

I’m so old I’m not even a boomer.

Well, maybe you are completely lost in greatest silent

 

[KellenVancouver]

 

[diablo]

Well, maybe you are completely lost in greatest silent

I used to wonder why they used that term. The people I know aged over 80 are rarely silent.

The term "Silent Generation" was popularized by a Time magazine article in 1951, which described the youth of that time as quiet and less politically active compared to previous generations. This perceived silence was partly due to the political climate of the McCarthy Era, where many felt it was safer to remain subdued.

 

[fatoldgit]

It's no joke! I paid £37.99 each for two 16GB SODIMMs delivered on on 13th November last year...

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Currently £176 each...

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I still have the 4800Mhz SODIMMs unopened in my drawer. I purchased them as a backup when it looked like I wouldn't be able to get 5600Mhz SODIMMs for a reasonable price (I secured a pair of 5600Mhz SODIMMs for £38.97 each the next day). The 4800Mhz are still in their return window, I don't think i'll be sending them back!

Beat the gouging and buy used systems.

I run Linux everywhere (so no Windows resource hogging OS/AI crap I didn't ask for) and I just buy grade A used PC's (laptops and desktops).

My Lenovo laptop of 11 years of age died last week. Picked up a used "Grade A" Dell, 16GB mem, 500GB M2 disk, i7, Touch screen with flip (aka 2 in 1) for $US 300.

These are ex corporate leases and I have brought many over the years.

Below are the disk usage stats of the "new" Dell Laptop. What always amazes me is the disk usage stats of these Grade A PC's (note the stats below include my copying of my Linux bit image backup)


data_units_read : 39,460,728
data_units_written : 31,169,775
host_read_commands : 686,609,703
host_write_commands : 619,933,870

power_cycles : 1,331
power_on_hours : 1,905

Note the complete lack of data read and write events and more amazingly, "power cycles" (1,331) verses "power on hours" (1,905).

So if we assume 250 work days a year and one power cycle per day we get a lease duration of 5 years (1331/250). So that makes sense. BUT..... it has been powered on for only 1905 hours or an average of 1.5 hours per day.

Probably used by a CEO or senior VP who spent the day navel gazing/power lunching/golfing rather than doing any real work.

So... buy used and avoid the AI induced price gouging.

Peter

 

[lucian]

 

[Salt]

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Not quite correct . Deuterostomes means two in-out, and the mouth is, of course, out of the calculation at this time.
But have a view at the umbilical chord as it is a bidirectional way ...
Just saying... The last sentence remains true.

 

[mhardy6647]

"tube within a tube" -- as the developmental biologists like to say.

random internet image

 

[respice finem]

While we're at it: My sports trainer once almost got lynched, on a ship during a storm. A guy was barfing nonstop (was not the only one), the trainer had to hold his whisky glass, but otherwise was rather amused. At some point he said to the barfing guy "when you see a pink round object, swallow it back - it's the asshole, you'll need it later".

 

[Bleib]

 

[snakedctr]

 

[Robin L]

 

[Robin L]

 

[KellenVancouver]

 

[KellenVancouver]

 

[rationaltime]