At work we buy workstation laptops for our engineers. From Dell, the exact same laptop cost $3,200 in January, $4,400 in April, and $5,900 as of mid-May.
We’re just not buying them and instead shopping different brands.
The AI bubble has absolutely fucked pricing for computers.
Saw this article from Microslop the other day about their MDASH copilot model competing with Mythos for bug finding/fixing.
And here’s the image they went with for the flowchart of what the AI does… Complete with overlapping text and the worst layout I’ve ever seen.
Zero humans proofed this.
Shandian and Lightning are both robots. One was autonomous and one was remote controlled.
The article doesn’t mention anything about the times run by humans.
I think enterprise is the least affected.
Win11 installs are done with Autopilot. Users log in with their company MS accounts and if admins need access they log in with the LAPS account.
Enterprise moved away from local accounts even before COVID.
SketchUp has been owned by Trimble for over a decade, but I still think of it as Google SketchUp as well.
The ‘affluenza’ defense.
Also, there are no sea lions in Hawaii.