PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage

Re:PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to... by Aurornis on Monday November 24, 2025 @04:54PM (#46039850)

> Unfortunately, software got slower more quickly than hardware got quicker.

Hard disagree. A $600 Mac Mini with 16GB of RAM runs everything insanely faster than even my $5000 company-purchased developer laptops from 10 years ago. And yes, even when I run Slack, Visual Studio Code, Spotify, and a gazillion Chrome tabs.

The HN rhetoric about modern computing being slow is getting strangely disconnected from the real world. Cheap computers are super fast like they've never been before, even with modern software.

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Re:PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to... by Aerroon on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @06:42AM (#46044865)

You brought up a light computing load that a laptop from like 2005 wouldn't struggle with?

People ran multiple browser windows, a 3D video game, irc (chat application), teamspeak/ventrilo (voice chat) and winamp (music) all at once back in the early 2000s. This is something an 8 year old phone can do these days.

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Re:PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to... by Aurornis on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @09:42AM (#46046179)

I’m responding to the comment above claiming that modern software is slow on modern hardware. It’s an HN meme to claim that Electron apps are unusable.

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Re:PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to... by Aerroon on Thursday November 27, 2025 @05:26AM (#46067829)

They are slow though. There are noticeable delays on any machine I've used with them compared to native desktop applications. It's absolutely not just a meme.

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