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I may be losing the plot
I came across this email today Intel Optane: Memory acceleration kicks PCs into warp drive on April 24 | ZDNet
and after a bit of Googling I think my build days might be over unless I can find some conventional way of building a machine.
Seems to me that Intel and Microsoft have it wrapped up now unless one has zillions of dollars to throw at them because the new stuff as well as being nepotistic is way beyond my seemingly pathetic budget.
I don't really understand this speed related mindset as the current machines I have all work in the blink of an eye boot times around 20 - 25 seconds and browsing well I hit a tab and there is there so why in the name of reason would I throw hard earned dollars at this sort of stuff - unless I have a lot of shares in Microsoft, Intel, and Micron of course.
I don't know about how it is in the US and anywhere else but out here it is becoming increasingly expensive to buy components for a new build as most of the store I have dealt with in the past now are not offering stuff that I can afford. The simpler things like SSD's are affordable but I have seen GPU's now advertised at close to and more than a thousand dollars - that is just a tad under the cost of my Ivy B build!!
It makes me wonder where it will all end if indeed there is an end. Right now I think I am at that end and pretty darn sick of the way my only really enjoyable past time / hobby is being wrecked by the pricing of computer gear.