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The global RAM crisis has made everything more expensive. Sadly, we can't go back in time and stop it from happening. But we can try to punish the companies who made it this way through the power of litigation. I'm James Strive. This is Tech LinkedIn. And that's exactly what three small PC retailers and 17 individuals are doing by filing a new class action lawsuit against Samsung, SKH Highix, and Micron. The lawsuit alleges these three companies coordinated to tighten the supply of consumer focused DDR memory, which helped trigger the ongoing RAM apocalypse. Wielding the law against those you feel have wronged you feels amazing. Is this what Nintendo feels
like every damn day? I'm going to sue some mother. Meanwhile, after raising the prices of their products, Apple is reportedly seeking US approval to buy memory from CXMT, a blacklisted Chinese chip maker. Apple was quote unquote forced to raise the MacBook Neo price from $600 to $700. And by golly, they're going to try to get that back down because they care about the little guy, even if that means taking some big political and reputational risks. Fun fact, the traditional Chinese apple, the Juju, belongs to the Buckthornne family. Well, a new Chinese apple chip deal could be a real buttthorn for the US government. So, they better watch out for that.
We spent all those seconds setting that up. The Steam Machine's price has disappointed PC gamers more than I loved ones, wife included. But there's some wonderful news. System integrator Meta PC announced the first pre-built to ship with Steam OS. And well, it's not exactly cheaper. Wait, hear me out. Although the Steamroller comes with a Ryzen 5 9600X RX7600, 16 gigs of DDR5 memory, and a one TB MVME SSD, its price starts at 1299 US, right in between the 1049512 GB base Steam Machine and the 13492 TB model, but it'll be interesting to eventually see some performance comparisons. What is cheaper is a suspicious looking Steam Machine clone from China for just 6.88.
It runs Steam OS on a Ryzen 55500 and RX6750 GRE, which on paper sounds like solid specs for nearly half the price of a Steam Machine. However, Games Radar points out the specs have some red flags and even call the PC a makebelieve product. You can still have fun with those. What's not make believe is that we're going to be seeing more gaming PCs running Steam West now that Valve has made it pretty easy to install, which is pretty neat. And so are you. That one's for free. Intel's nextG Nova Lake desktop lineup could be led by a chip that draws a frankly absurd 474 watts at full tilt according to leaker LC Tech Links. That's nearly double Intel's current flagship. In fact, it's about the same power draw as a small space
heater and space is huge. The chip also has 52 cores, more than double the 24 cores that the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus has. Doubling the power draw and core count makes sense here though because what Intel apparently did is fuse two compute tiles into one mega tile. This Nova Lake flagship is basically two chips in a trench coat. Based on previous leaks, the new lineup will need a new socket, a beefy power supply, and even crazier cooling. And some boards may even pack a third eight pin power connector, which means anyone moving to the platform will be in for a full rig rebuild. But don't sell your PC just yet, cuz none of this is official and running the damn thing won't be cheap.
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owners get a shiny upgrade with one killer feature, a button that turns your frame rate down. Sony does not intend to sell the PlayStation 6 at a significant loss according to recent comments from company executives. Meanwhile, fairly reliable leaker Kepler L2 has delivered the shocking news that the hardware component costs in the PlayStation 6 have shot up. If we activate detective mode in our brains for a second, this all adds up to by god, this thing could be pretty damn expensive. On the bright side, Sony hints there could be a portable version of the console, which means worse graphics for everybody. Just joking. I don't know that. With Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Haki Nishino, not
saying that again, saying the system could support play styles beyond the living room. You can play in the kitchen. Dbrand built a six se machine case shaped like Portal's companion cube. Everybody loves that. It became the second fastest selling product ever for Dbrand. But then they realized they never asked Valve's permission to build this thing and Valve owns Portal. So the lawyers came knocking. They did their lawyer thing and now Dbrand is refunding everybody. But we don't want our money back. We want the cube. It's fitting really. The companion cube ended up exactly where it does in the game. The incinerator.
Netflix now makes every adult profile on your account use its own email and login with kids exempt. So instead of everyone piggybacking on your password, each person gets their own signin codes and settings. Sure, it's also Netflix collecting a fresh email from every freeloader you share with. But the bright side's real. Your password finally stops being community property. And Japanese capsule toy maker Tarlin is releasing tiny buildable replicas of real PC parts from ASRock, Gigabyte MSI, and Intel. They're detailed enough to assemble into a real-ook mini tower down to the motherboard, CPU, and even the fans. With real parts costing a fortune, this may be the only build you can
actually afford and fit into your tiny home that you rent. Finally, a computer to go with my officially licensed toy Cisco network switch, just like I'll be officially happy if you come back on Friday with more bugs. Uh, tech news. That's right, because we're in Canada and Wednesday is a holiday. Till then, I'll be in the drive-thru arguing that a tater tot is just a spherical fry and therefore should come with the fries. Spherical? What kind of tater tots? It's a cylindrical prism. What? No.
