Has anyone noticed computer hardware prices haven't gone down lately?

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Has anyone noticed computer hardware prices haven't gone down lately?
Anonymous Coward User ID: 809957 United States 06/15/2010 03:14 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Has anyone noticed computer hardware prices haven't gone down lately? I built a custom computer in april from parts off amazon, and not one single part I bought has dropped in price as of June 14. The motherboard x58 classified was $390 and it still is, and that's only down from a $480 price a year and a half ago! Is this not a sign that China is not going to be our bitch slaves any more? Coming hyper inflationary depression for the Western World? Is computer hardware (basically a commodity) the canary in the coal mine? Could this be Moore's law?

BVNDY User ID: 990106 United States 06/15/2010 03:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Has anyone noticed computer hardware prices haven't gone down lately? nO, YOU JUST CANT SHOP. I saw a Compaq on closeout in Office max( tower only) for less than three hundred. I bought a HP last year, 8 gigs 1066 dual chan ram, 750 gig HD, light scribe, added a fast video card, a one tb drive. cost 500 bucks + upgrades, had a great case, quite as a mouse, I STILL DONT HAVE NINE HUNDRED BUCKS IN IT. Point is, it cost 110 more than your entire MB stock, before my upgrades
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 809957 United States 06/15/2010 03:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Has anyone noticed computer hardware prices haven't gone down lately? nO, YOU JUST CANT SHOP. I saw a Compaq on closeout in Office max( tower only) for less than three hundred. I bought a HP last year, 8 gigs 1066 dual chan ram, 750 gig HD, light scribe, added a fast video card, a one tb drive. cost 500 bucks + upgrades, had a great case, quite as a mouse, I STILL DONT HAVE NINE HUNDRED BUCKS IN IT. Point is, it cost 110 more than your entire MB stock, before my upgrades Quoting: BVNDY 990106 You are comparing apples to oranges lol. Not trying to be insulting at all, but my build would cost 6k on alienware. I got the good mobo because I have 12g 1600 mhz ram and a i7 980 extreme edition.
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1001277 United States 06/15/2010 03:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Has anyone noticed computer hardware prices haven't gone down lately? "Compaq on closeout"

Anonymous Coward User ID: 53618 Canada 06/15/2010 03:31 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Has anyone noticed computer hardware prices haven't gone down lately? Well, they can only come down so far. As far as I'm concerned computer hardware and electonics are dirt cheap. When I was a kid a Commodore 64 with 64K (yes, that 64 KILOBYTES) of RAM was like $700 and that was in the 80s. And you still had to buy an external disk drive... In the early 90s I paid $300+ for a Western Digital Caviar 540 Meg hard drive. Now a 1 TB (1000 Gigibyte!!!) drive form that same manufacturer is $99.99.
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 809957 United States 06/15/2010 03:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Has anyone noticed computer hardware prices haven't gone down lately? Well, they can only come down so far. As far as I'm concerned computer hardware and electonics are dirt cheap. When I was a kid a Commodore 64 with 64K (yes, that 64 KILOBYTES) of RAM was like $700 and that was in the 80s. And you still had to buy an external disk drive... In the early 90s I paid $300+ for a Western Digital Caviar 540 Meg hard drive. Now a 1 TB (1000 Gigibyte!!!) drive form that same manufacturer is $99.99. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 53618 Yeah you hit a point I need to elaborate on. I am only speaking to the last 12-18 months since the economy really tanked. I would normally expect prices to keep falling at that same rate but to my knowledge nothing has dropped in hardware and memory for at least the last month and a half.
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1001277 United States 06/15/2010 03:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Has anyone noticed computer hardware prices haven't gone down lately? Don't worry it all won't mean anything soon anyway. North Korea is training crews for it's manned ornithopters that are going to flap all the way over here and detonate EMP bombs over our glorious country, frying all our electronics and sending us back to the dark ages.
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 809957 United States 06/15/2010 03:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Has anyone noticed computer hardware prices haven't gone down lately? If we catch wind of that plan set in motion here on GLP can we turn our cpu's off? Maybe put them in a lead safe?
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1001277 United States 06/15/2010 03:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Has anyone noticed computer hardware prices haven't gone down lately? If we catch wind of that plan set in motion here on GLP can we turn our cpu's off? Maybe put them in a lead safe? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 809957 With the grid fried and the networks cooked what purpose would saving ones PC serve? Perhaps you could rig up a power generator Gilligan's Island style and get it running via peddle power, then what?
Anonymous Coward User ID: 979719 United States 06/15/2010 03:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Has anyone noticed computer hardware prices haven't gone down lately? i thought that it stayed the same prices but doubles in performance? you know morres law er whatever.

Ho_Lee_Kao User ID: 896722 United States 06/15/2010 04:01 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: Has anyone noticed computer hardware prices haven't gone down lately? It's because people aren't buying enough, the market is stagnant. Things will change near the holidays, and next year.
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