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Rock Paper Shotgun Oct 2, 2026, 7:15 PM (1 week ago)

I don’t know if memory shortages have permanently killed off the concept of ‘cheap’ gaming PCs, but they have at least beat it into a coma. On the desktop side, inflated RAM, SSDs and graphics card prices continue to inflict karmic pain for our years of “It’s cheaper to build it yourself” smugness…

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Desktop and handheld prices going out of control means PC bargain hunts lead to my old enemy: gaming laptops

16 cores, 5.2 GHz, and 55 TOPS: Minisforum’s newest AI workstation is mostly a massive upgrade to 192GB of memory - and that is not necessarily a bad thing

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