"how's ram shortage going"

@whitequark @elexia suddenly buying a laptop with soldered ram is both great and awful (great if buying second hand now)

@mer @whitequark computer hardware markets only do this when they're in extreme distress

@M0YNG @whitequark yeah

@whitequark The IT scalpers near here have started selling laptops with no RAM...

@whitequark I wonder if all this stupidity will end up raising the prices of the laptop renting contracts most IT companies have with OEMs… interesting times awaits us, if it does.

@whitequark Oh fuck, I need that for my 128 GiB of DDR3 that I would love to move to a 5800X3D ...

@whitequark Yeah, I have one of those

@jn @RedstoneLP2 @whitequark But using these adapters makes it tall! So tall it won't fit in some positions in some configurations.

@whitequark using these would be the only way to get my desktop's RAM situation even more cursed than it already is

@whitequark The fact this goes all the way down to DDR3 makes me think that these actually far predate the RAM shortage, but point made nonetheless, lol.

@ozzelot @RedstoneLP2 @whitequark finally, highmem

@jn @ozzelot @RedstoneLP2 incredible

@ozzelot @jn @whitequark i've had that issue with "normal" ram in desktop configurations already

@whitequark is laptop RAM really so much less expensive to grant this?

@sverx the board is like $5

@JamesWidman @mer @whitequark @patterfloof Memories of 72pin SIMM boards with 4x 30 pin sockets on them... and if you had 2 slots, you needed to remember to order a left hand and a right hand one...

@whitequark
#alt4you
Three RAM adapter thingies for the corresponding DDR3, 4 and 5 sodim modules to their dim counterparts.

@whitequark I'm not against this at all. It's a nice way to recycle your existing laptop RAM.

@whitequark What's old is new again:

Back when I built my Pentium-1 I carried over several MiB of RAM on SIMM modules to those new-fangled DIMM slots using a pair of SIMM→DIMM adapters:

@glowl added, ty