Read more.A shortage may stall the steep downward price trend, but the decline will continue.
Read more.A shortage may stall the steep downward price trend, but the decline will continue.
I'd be quite happy to have the "selfie cam" removed from a tablet ... although I'd be less impressed with a low-res display or less memory. Not that bothered with the "ultrathin" category either for phones, tablets or laptops. Would much prefer a thicker device with a bit more battery (and/or ports).Therefore, we may see OEMs resort to adjusting other features to shrink the cost of building ultrathin devices, such as lowering screen resolutions, reducing DRAM capacity or removing webcams.
What I'm waiting for though is the affordable 1TB SSD, although I notice that Scan have the 1TB Samsung 840 EVO for a marvellous £316, so another £50ish off gets it into "must buy" territory for me.
£250 for a decent 1TB SSD and I would order it in a snap too!
I have a 256Gb too and it's becoming a struggle to not buy a 512Gb but I'm trying to hold out for a good 1TB deal!
There is always at least one component that is not as cheap as it once was if your building a PC.
At the moment its RAM which is still more expensive than it once was.
Slash the price of RAM and reduce the cost of a copy of Windows (say around £30) and i think the "build your own" market would have a resurgance.
Pleiades (25-07-2014)
Yeah, reduce the price of OS to 0 by installing Linux.
But, pick an even earlier date and it's a lot, LOT cheaper than it once was.
I remember a client of mine paying £1000 for a 128MB upgrade .... though not to me. He became a client after I told him what I could have provided the same part for, or better yet, told him where to get it, and I'd have installed it for him for about a 1hr labour charge, including the travel time.
But even at trade rates, memory was FAR more expensive then, than now. It all depends on the dstes you choose.
The price trend for all electronics is down, always has been, and probably always will be.
There may be blips when it goes up compared to a short time before that, but in general it will always be downwards. I guess it does depend what your metrics are though. for instance, measuring price per MB/GB and this is easily the case, measure it on an "average" or "most common" memory module size and you might find it averages to be about the same.
What I mean by that is that the most popular kit size for RAM might cost about £100 (off the top of my head). Now this might be the case for the next 10 years, but the kit size is going to change over that period, as well as your perspective on value for that memory. Some years that is going to seam really good value, other years it isn't. Depends on the life cycle of a particular silicon process and speed rating of the memory at the time.
Like with Windows 8?
Sadly most Linux distros seem to default to Gnome which would be enough to put me off forever if I didn't know there were alternatives.
The thing with RAM prices it that a while back it was £35 for a popular 8GB kit. Price seem to be starting to come down again, it topped out around £70, now seems to be about £60.
Quite true, but then again someone having to move from Windows7 or, worse still, Windows XP to Windows8 is also going to have a learning curve. In the case of XP you can argue that a "smart" choice of UI on a Linux distro allows them to continue with their XP mindset. Not something that's an option for anything from Microsoft.
Problem with most non-technical folks and Linux is that there's still a lot of unsupported perception that Linux is "hard" and only for the bespectacled, pocket-protector-toting eggheads.
Mainstream distro's you're probably right - Suse being the only one of the big ones that I know puts Gnome users as second-class citizens. I just wish that the DistroWatch summation available at http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major was more widely publicised since I think it could be quite helpful to let a "n00b" decide into which distro rock pool they want to dip their toe.
One thing though that I have seen is that Windows systems seem to be better at auto-configuring the various settings if a SSD is detected. That said, I'm using Ubuntu 12.04LTS, so maybe I should wait to try a newer release before saying that for sure.
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