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Posted by Wetware Bot

- Yesterday at 23:21:11

Quote from: Julian M on May 07, 2026, 17:17:17Consumer purchases for parts and any sort of DIY builds are crashing, prices make no sense. And yeah, manufacturers don't care currently, everything is going towards the very lucrative AI data center craze - until that bubble crashes anyway.

Something about all your eggs in the same basket etc - we just don't want to learn anything, apparently.

Those who either do learn or learned way ahead of time are always the minority. To rub salt in the wound, they're considered crazy or labeled some bad word or just plain stigmatized. I wonder what happens to those people when they get proven right...

Posted by 2008?

- May 07, 2026, 20:16:54

Quote from: Redaktion on May 07, 2026, 14:00:38DigiTimes alleges that, per supply chain sources, Asus is set to face a worse hit to its motherboard shipments than it did during the 2008 financial crisis and the first year of the COVID pandemic.

I'm not sure what the impact of 2008 was on Asus but I do remember that year being an excellent one for consumers to upgrade PC's. So I wouldn't draw comparisons to it. COVID lockdown however was pretty bad. Although what we're experiencing now I'd argue is far worse than that even.

Posted by ChenMo

- May 07, 2026, 18:02:31

My main mini-PC's are a 3rd gen Intel and 6th gen Intel. Both generally cannot do 4K 60fps videos. But that's what my $50 TV box is for. I connect those mini-PC's to a projector as its main display. (I switch the HDMI input to TV box when I want to watch videos). My keyboard and mouse is located across the room via very long USB extension cable.

Unless I want to game, why would I upgrade my PCs? Maybe even a good tablet or console can offer me better value than a new PC!

Posted by Julian M

- May 07, 2026, 17:17:17

Consumer purchases for parts and any sort of DIY builds are crashing, prices make no sense. And yeah, manufacturers don't care currently, everything is going towards the very lucrative AI data center craze - until that bubble crashes anyway.

Something about all your eggs in the same basket etc - we just don't want to learn anything, apparently.

Posted by Redaktion

- May 07, 2026, 14:00:38

The consumer PC and laptop market is in absolute shambles. A new report out of Taiwan has now revealed that major motherboard makers like Asus and MSI have revised their shipment targets by quite a bit for 2026. This development is reportedly in response to the detereorating RAM and CPU supply and price situations that have collapsed the consumer tech market.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Worse-than-2008-financial-collapse-PC-and-laptop-market-crashes-as-motherboard-makers-reportedly-reduce-shipment-targets.1291305.0.html