alt Hacker News> ECC RAM is not needed for every application and mandating it for every gaming rig and machine used to run Chrome will just increase prices unnecessarily.
The price increase will be very small if manufacturers are no longer able to segment the market to make a higher margin on those who need it. No one wants even games or web browsers to crash randomly.
> If they want to eat that cost, it should be up to them.
They need to be given the choice. Most people do not know they even have the choice, and they are not offered it at a reasonable price.
A cost to people in general is a cost to society.
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>The price increase will be very small if manufacturers are no longer able to segment the market to make a higher margin on those who need it.
AMD doesn't have this segmentation. Where's the hoard of people building systems with ECC ram? At best you have a few people on HN saying they're doing it, but in practice nobody actually does it.
Without quantifying the cost to society that someone's web-browser crashes sometimes, it's hard to make a rational case that this issue is so dire that it needs specific regulation.
I'm not sure making it illegal to sell consumer grade hardware is the boon for the people you imagine