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Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices
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this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2025
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I wonder how long it will take before people realize it's cheaper to own your own hardware than lease compute time from a cloud provider? I've seen this same cycle with cloud VMs, I expect this will be no different.
With cloud computing you get someone (or at least some entity) to blame when things go wrong which apparently has some value too. Also, if you don't need a lot of resources cloud can be cheaper than setting up whole infrastructure by yourself, but that has a ton of variables. Plus with cloud there's often option for colocation/high availability/ddos protection and other stuff around which can be pretty expensive to build yourself.
Obviously if you try to shoehorn your current modrate sized esx/hyper-v/whatever environment to the cloud as is, that's going to be expensive.
Yeah, my experience has been in the MSP space for small to medium companies. We've had tons of customers forego upgrading local hardware to go to a cloud provider, then have to do it in reverse a few years later when they realize they've already paid out the cost of their hardware and licensing agreement in hosting costs, and still have to keep paying to run the same systems.
They won't, ever. Not the general public, at least. Most are still perfectly content and onboard with paying for 10 different streaming services for music/movies/TV. Only immediate numbers mean anything, and $5/mo is better than $10 once, simply because 10 is larger than 5. Plus, look at all this extra shit I didn't want that is included!