alt Hacker NewsTinfoil hat time:
I can imagine Open AI and Anthropic( among others) artificially manipulating the pc part market to keep consumers from buying capable hardware.
As is a ROG tablet is available for 3K with 128GB of ram. I don’t need to beat Opus, I just need good enough
I mean, intentionally or not, they have done that.
By buying up all the hardware, they've driven up the prices of sever parts, and because the margins are so much better on server hardware all the manufacturers have switched their lines over to server hardware - leaving the pc market pretty much screwed for gpus, ram, ssds, and hdds.