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points by silisili 2 days ago | 0 comments

If it makes anyone feel any better, Moto in particular never stays at MSRP long. I'd expect it to be well under $1000 within a month or two, which is a sweeter spot.

That said, I've never seen a regular Moto phone nearly this expensive, so who knows.

[–] judge2020 2 days ago

RAMpocalypse is real and high end phones are definitely going to feel it the most. I wouldn't be surprised if Motorola had to pay an insane amount of money to get any ram allocation at all.

[–] alpha_squared 2 days ago

Small correction: I think budget phones will feel it the most. The budget market has been practically wiped out at this point.

[–] Forgeties79 2 days ago

Crazy to think we were picking up 16gb M2 Mac mini’s for like $800 a few years ago.

[–] wtallis 2 days ago

That seems to be drastically understating the change.

The M4 Mac mini was announced two years ago with 16GB RAM standard, starting at MSRP of $599, without anything like an education discount (which knocked another $100 off the machine), and stayed at that price until early this year when supply simply evaporated. Then the M6 model this fall went up by $300 for the same base memory and storage capacities. +50% in overall price of the entry-level machine, and probably not much of it was due to the M6 being a more advanced processor than M4.

[–] Kirby64 2 days ago

$800? They were below that on sale. I seem to recall the all time low was $400 for 16gb models of the mini at one point.

[–] californical 2 days ago

Yeah I got my M4 (I think) MacBook Air for the “Black Friday” sales last November, 16GB, for $699. From Best Buy, brand new

That was still after the RAMpocolypse had started but hadn’t hit Apple yet, I remember thinking Apple was immune

[–] hypercube33 2 days ago

Crazy that in this market especially, Apple wouldnt release a Mac Mini Neo with the Neo boards and make it minier. Its enough of a machine to do most work including app dev and I've only run into memory problems after really pushing it and having a program that had some insane memory leaks. Note: I dont do photoshop or video editing, I'm sure its not awesome at those, even though it can do it.

[–] lp92 1 day ago

Why would they do that considering they are also RAM supply constrained as seen by the Neo price bump.

[–] girvo 2 days ago

I picked up an M4 16GB Mac Mini with a 1TB drive for ~$900 USD last year. Last train out of Saigon… though I wish I’d got more memory