According to CamelCamelCamel, that 32GB RAM kit was $87 all the way up until December 2025, when it immediately started rising in price.

So, anyone installing that has to eat that price somewhere.

Microsoft has already started. Surface devices a week or so ago. Xbox today. I would imagine we'll start seeing something similar from all the other OEMs over the next few weeks.

God, I can't wait for this bubble to pop.

You must have.

No. Every time I try a retro computer I'm immediately reminded why we were all so happy to move beyond it.

Could be. They also announced they were doing it a little bit of time before you actually could. Maybe that's it?

You must have signed up on day one. I got mine an hour or so after you could get them and they were already in the 5000s.

No one cares about Anonymous Cowards. :)

I kid. I kid.

But seriously.

RIP to my old five-digit ICQ number that got pried out from under me by Russian hackers.

With my four-digit ID, I'm sure she'll be age-appropriate for me no matter what.

[waves dust away.]

What are you trying to do? Get us all killed?

That was the best April Fool's redesign this site ever did.

We must have been in the submission queue right behind each other.

It takes so little to impress the younger generation these days.

On the other hand, I created an account as fast as I could on the day they went live.

It's the double crown of Slashdot membership.