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Framework proved repairable laptops can work, but almost nobody is willing to buy one
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this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2026
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Quite normal, yes. Especially the prices for DDR4 and DDR5, the most commonly used RAM types in consumer laptops/desktops
I don't know how old "abc" is, but it's particularly painful for those of us who remember $100 going from getting us a 32Kb RAM pack, to 1Mb, to 64Mb, to 256Mb, to 1Gb, to 16Gb, and then just fucking stop for ten years, and now going back to no longer being able to even get us 16Gb any more. It's like stuff stopped getting better a decade ago, and everything is being made worse by the greed of rich arseholes
It's likely worse than the graph shows because this isn't average sale price.
I can't think of a single system I've built where I even considered the cheapest RAM options.