Posted on 12/31/2025 5:37:50 AM PST by dennisw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3JfOxx6Hh4
In this video, we walk through the anti-consumer AI circlejerk contributing to what we think is an "AI bubble." NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel are now all sort of working with each other, despite also being the only competitors in some of their market segments.
This creates opportunity, we think, for price fixing and anti-consumer collusion; at the same time, the three are now crossing over in their partnerships with OpenAI, CoreWeave, Oracle, xAI, and other AI-obsessed companies demanding more AI pickaxes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3JfOxx6Hh4
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You could get a solid used Dell Latitude 5520 15.6” laptop with 11th gen Intel cpu for $140- $210 with 16gb Ram. 32Gb ram is better but hard to find due to the RAM crisis. Latitude = business class Dell. More durable than consumer level Dell Inspiron laptop that you buy at Best Buy. I have bought 4x - 5520 Latitudes in the last year.
I will go eBay and look for 32gb examples.
Prices are down after Christmas. People are tapped out. January is good month to buy electronics on eBay.
30 days returns. Seller pays for return shipping. /// has large 512gb NVMe
Fun but Apple does represent their phones as having AI. Reality is that 90% of the iPhone AI you get on current iPhones, is outsourced to Apple AI farms.
Their M series chips have more local AI processing built in, and increasing with each iteration.
Very nice, comparable pricing. I went with Amazon because they take responsibility as primary vendor as opposed to middle-man enabler, but it all boils down to calculated risk either way. Great to know other options other than retail.
Amazonk has it moments. For this I prefer eBay.
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