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I only pick winners
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https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/artic … 50305.html
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How much are taxpayers in the red on this boondoggle? 
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How much are taxpayers in the red on this boondoggle?
About $10 BILLION
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Sounds like there's weakness in the PC market.
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RockHardConservativewrote:
Sounds like there's weakness in the PC market.
All those $900 consumer SSD drives aren't helping.
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RockHardConservative wrote:
All those $900 consumer SSD drives aren't helping.
Those, along with consumer RGB RAM sticks, are used in AI data centers, that's why they're expensive! Those prices will never come down as they have hit a permanently high plateau. Buy now!
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Those, along with consumer RGB RAM sticks, are used in AI data centers, that's why they're expensive! Those prices will never come down as they have hit a permanently high plateau. Buy now!
Or be priced out forever.
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Intel hitched their wagon to Microsoft. 
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RockHardConservative wrote:
All those $900 consumer SSD drives aren't helping.
In my day we'd spend a summer crafting our own SSD drives. Kids today are just lazy.
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RockHardConservative wrote:
All those $900 consumer SSD drives aren't helping.
There are 4 Tb SSDs for about $1,000 on Newegg.
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There are 4 Tb SSDs for about $1,000 on Newegg.
I paid $400 for one last December and thought it was fuqing ridiculous robbery.
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SamplesBoiI got two in September for $250 each.
How time flies. September last year, obviously.
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I haven't used half of my 256 GB drive since 2016. WTF are you storing?*
* I do have a couple of GB on USB drives for legal/legacy reasons.
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Intel stock has worst day since 1970s, wiping about $12 billion off government’s stake
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/30/amazon- … cerns.html [Highly Credible Source (Liberal)]
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I haven't used half of my 256 GB drive since 2016. WTF are you storing?*
* I do have a couple of GB on USB drives for legal/legacy reasons.
I have a reverb HP Elitebook (i5 8th gen) with 256GB SSD. I haven't even used half it either. I think I paid $280 for it on Amazon back in 2024. No plans to upgrade it any time soon.
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SamplesBoiwrote:
I haven't used half of my 256 GB drive since 2016. WTF are you storing?*
* I do have a couple of GB on USB drives for legal/legacy reasons.
I have 2TB just in Steam games.
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About $10 BILLION
$12 Billion
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/30/amazon- … cerns.html [Highly Credible Source (Liberal)]
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anon user #3I saw a $3,000 computer in Costco the other day. I laughed when I saw it only had 32GB of memory. I had a ten year old workstation with 64GB
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