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  1. The Great Memory Robbery

    For forty years, the computer business kept one promise better than any industry has ever kept any promise: memory got cheaper. Every year brought more bits for fewer dollars, so reliably that the whole culture of computing leaned on the assumption. Software bloated because RAM would cost less next year. Photographs went uncompressed because storage would cost less next year. Then, late in 2025, the promise snapped. A 32-gigabyte kit of DDR5 desktop memory, the sensible middle of the market, sold for under ninety dollars in early 2025. By December, listings touched five hundred. By the second of September, 2026, the builders' forums had settled on 375 to 400 dollars as the going rate, and the daily trackers showed the price still climbing this week, up ten percent in seven days. One index of the broad market moved from 445 percent above its old baseline to 486 percent in a single month this summer. The entire digital world has been repriced, and the repricing took about ten months. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/09/11/the-

  2. The Great Memory Robbery

    For forty years, the computer business kept one promise better than any industry has ever kept any promise: memory got cheaper. Every year brought more bits for fewer dollars, so reliably that the whole culture of computing leaned on the assumption. Software bloated because RAM would cost less next year. Photographs went uncompressed because storage would cost less next year. Then, late in 2025, the promise snapped. A 32-gigabyte kit of DDR5 desktop memory, the sensible middle of the market, sold for under ninety dollars in early 2025. By December, listings touched five hundred. By the second of September, 2026, the builders' forums had settled on 375 to 400 dollars as the going rate, and the daily trackers showed the price still climbing this week, up ten percent in seven days. One index of the broad market moved from 445 percent above its old baseline to 486 percent in a single month this summer. The entire digital world has been repriced, and the repricing took about ten months. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/09/11/the-

  3. The Great Memory Robbery

    For forty years, the computer business kept one promise better than any industry has ever kept any promise: memory got cheaper. Every year brought more bits for fewer dollars, so reliably that the whole culture of computing leaned on the assumption. Software bloated because RAM would cost less next year. Photographs went uncompressed because storage would cost less next year. Then, late in 2025, the promise snapped. A 32-gigabyte kit of DDR5 desktop memory, the sensible middle of the market, sold for under ninety dollars in early 2025. By December, listings touched five hundred. By the second of September, 2026, the builders' forums had settled on 375 to 400 dollars as the going rate, and the daily trackers showed the price still climbing this week, up ten percent in seven days. One index of the broad market moved from 445 percent above its old baseline to 486 percent in a single month this summer. The entire digital world has been repriced, and the repricing took about ten months. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/09/11/the-

  4. The Great Memory Robbery

    For forty years, the computer business kept one promise better than any industry has ever kept any promise: memory got cheaper. Every year brought more bits for fewer dollars, so reliably that the whole culture of computing leaned on the assumption. Software bloated because RAM would cost less next year. Photographs went uncompressed because storage would cost less next year. Then, late in 2025, the promise snapped. A 32-gigabyte kit of DDR5 desktop memory, the sensible middle of the market, sold for under ninety dollars in early 2025. By December, listings touched five hundred. By the second of September, 2026, the builders' forums had settled on 375 to 400 dollars as the going rate, and the daily trackers showed the price still climbing this week, up ten percent in seven days. One index of the broad market moved from 445 percent above its old baseline to 486 percent in a single month this summer. The entire digital world has been repriced, and the repricing took about ten months. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/09/11/the-

  5. A $130 Billion Reason to Buy SK Hynix Stock Now

    With computer flash-memory maker SK Hynix (SKHY) benefiting tremendously from the AI revolution, poised to buy back a…
    #EuropeSays #Korea #KR #SK #AIrevolution #computermemory #flashmemory #QualityStockArts #SKGroup #SKhynix
    europesays.com/korea/131759/

  6. Wow. I knew at some point society would collapse to the degree that humanity would be required to transition whatever remaining technology we have left to follow the principles of #permacomputing . I just never thought that day would be upon us so soon.

    #tech #computers #AI #LLMs #ComputerMemory #MemoryShortage #DataCenters

    RE: https://social.lansky.name/@hn50/117053581317182038

  7. Wow. I knew at some point society would collapse to the degree that humanity would be required to transition whatever remaining technology we have left to follow the principles of #permacomputing . I just never thought that day would be upon us so soon.

    #tech #computers #AI #LLMs #ComputerMemory #MemoryShortage #DataCenters

    RE: https://social.lansky.name/@hn50/117053581317182038

  8. Wow. I knew at some point society would collapse to the degree that humanity would be required to transition whatever remaining technology we have left to follow the principles of #permacomputing . I just never thought that day would be upon us so soon.

    #tech #computers #AI #LLMs #ComputerMemory #MemoryShortage #DataCenters

    RE: https://social.lansky.name/@hn50/117053581317182038

  9. Slumping AI stocks drag Wall Street lower, oil prices jump as US launches more airstrikes on Iran

    Wall Street was on track to close the week with losses on Friday as the sell-off of chipmakers…
    #EuropeSays #Japan #JP #Tokyo #AI-related #computerchips #computermemory #Nasdaqfutures #rocketcompany #S&P500 #TokyoElectron #WallStreet
    europesays.com/japan/60007/

  10. South Korea to the rescue: The world’s biggest chipmakers will drop $590 billion to end RAMageddon, but there’s a catch

    Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, two of the largest makers of memory chips on the planet, will invest…
    #EuropeSays #Korea #KR #computermemory #LeeJaeMyung #randomaccessmemory #SamsungElectronics #SKGroup #SKhynix #SouthKorea #SouthKoreangovernment #southkoreanpresident
    europesays.com/korea/70989/

  11. europesays.com/people/132527/ Even Apple supply chain maestro Tim Cook couldn’t dodge the memory chip ‘RAM-ageddon’ crisis. Here’s why PC prices are soaring this summer #apple #ComputerMemory #DataCenters #memory #MemoryChips #NANDMemory #TimCook

  12. DDR2 memory I bought for my Gateway Windows Vista desktop computer from Amazon
    #Computing #Amazon #ComputerMemory

  13. This AI Hardware Bottleneck Is Determining the Next Trillion-Dollar Tech Companies

    In its infancy, high-performance processors largely made by Nvidia were the key to modern-day artificial intelligence’s (AI) success.…
    #NewsBeep #News #Artificialintelligence #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Computermemory #datacenters #datastorage #microntechnology #Nvidia #randomaccessmemory #Technology #UK #UnitedKingdom
    newsbeep.com/uk/614465/

  14. This AI Hardware Bottleneck Is Determining the Next Trillion-Dollar Tech Companies

    In its infancy, high-performance processors largely made by Nvidia were the key to modern-day artificial intelligence’s (AI) success.…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Business #Artificialintelligence #Computermemory #DataCenters #Datastorage #MicronTechnology #NVIDIA #randomaccessmemory
    newsbeep.com/us/676342/

  15. “Scuse me while I kiss the sky”*…

    In 1967, Jimi Hendrix’s manager, Chas Chandler arranged for Jimi to meet Cream…

    There was a particular night when Cream allowed Jimi to join them for a jam at the Regent Street Polytechnic in central London. Meeting Clapton had been among the enticements Chandler had used to lure Hendrix to Britain: “Hendrix blew into a version of [Howlin’ Wolf’s] ‘Killing Floor’,” recalls [Tony] Garland, “and plays it at breakneck tempo, just like that – it stopped you in your tracks.” [Keith] Altham recalls Chandler going backstage after Clapton left in the middle of the song “which he had yet to master himself”; Clapton was furiously puffing on a cigarette and telling Chas: “You never told me he was that fucking good.” – source

    Hendrix’s extraodinary virtuosity has, altogether justly, gotten a great deal of attention; less well noted, his incredible mastery of the technology of music making, recording, and performance. Rohan Puranik explains…

    3 February 1967 is a day that belongs in the annals of music history. It’s the day that Jimi Hendrix entered London’s Olympic Studios to record a song using a new component. The song was “Purple Haze,” and the component was the Octavia guitar pedal, created for Hendrix by sound engineer Roger Mayer. The pedal was a key element of a complex chain of analog elements responsible for the final sound, including the acoustics of the studio room itself. When they sent the tapes for remastering in the United States, the sounds on it were so novel that they included an accompanying note explaining that the distortion at the end was not malfunction but intention. A few months later, Hendrix would deliver his legendary electric guitar performance at the Monterey International Pop Festival.

    “Purple Haze” firmly established that an electric guitar can be used not just as a stringed instrument with built-in pickups for convenient sound amplification, but also as a full-blown wave synthesizer whose output can be manipulated at will. Modern guitarists can reproduce Hendrix’s chain using separate plug-ins in digital audio workstation software, but the magic often disappears when everything is buffered and quantized. I wanted to find out if a more systematic approach could do a better job and provide insights into how Hendrix created his groundbreaking sound.

    My fascination with Hendrix’s Olympic Studios’ performance arose because there is a “Hendrix was an alien” narrative surrounding his musical innovation—that his music appeared more or less out of nowhere. I wanted to replace that narrative with an engineering-driven account that’s inspectable and reproducible—plots, models, and a signal chain from the guitar through the pedals that you can probe stage by stage…

    [And probe it Puranik does– fascinatingly, stage by stage…]

    … Hendrix didn’t speak in decibels and ohm values, but he collaborated with engineers who did—Mayer and Kramer—and iterated fast as a systems engineer. Reframing Hendrix as an engineer doesn’t diminish the art. It explains how one person, in under four years as a bandleader, could pull the electric guitar toward its full potential by systematically augmenting the instrument’s shortcomings for maximum expression.

    “Jimi Hendrix Was a Systems Engineer,” from @spectrum.ieee.org.

    See also: “The Technology of Jimi Hendrix.”

    * Jimi Hendrix, “Purple Haze”

    ###

    As we plug in, we might send well-connected birthday greetings to another wizard with wires, Geoff Tootill; he was born on this date in 1922. An electronic engineer and computer scientist, he worked (with Freddie Williams and Tom Kilburn) to design a computer memory. To that end they built the first electronic stored-program computer— the Manchester Baby— at the University of Manchester in 1948.

    The Baby was not intended to be a practical computing engine, but was instead designed as a testbed for the Williams tube, the first truly random-access memory. Nonethless, Baby worked: Alan Turing moved to Manchester to use it, and the following year, it inspired the Ferranti Mark 1, the world’s first commercially available electronic general-purpose stored-program digital computer.

    source

    #computerMemory #computing #culture #electronics #engineering #GeoffTootill #history #JimHendrix #ManchesterBaby #music #Technology
  16. “Scuse me while I kiss the sky”*…

    In 1967, Jimi Hendrix’s manager, Chas Chandler arranged for Jimi to meet Cream…

    There was a particular night when Cream allowed Jimi to join them for a jam at the Regent Street Polytechnic in central London. Meeting Clapton had been among the enticements Chandler had used to lure Hendrix to Britain: “Hendrix blew into a version of [Howlin’ Wolf’s] ‘Killing Floor’,” recalls [Tony] Garland, “and plays it at breakneck tempo, just like that – it stopped you in your tracks.” [Keith] Altham recalls Chandler going backstage after Clapton left in the middle of the song “which he had yet to master himself”; Clapton was furiously puffing on a cigarette and telling Chas: “You never told me he was that fucking good.” – source

    Hendrix’s extraodinary virtuosity has, altogether justly, gotten a great deal of attention; less well noted, his incredible mastery of the technology of music making, recording, and performance. Rohan Puranik explains…

    3 February 1967 is a day that belongs in the annals of music history. It’s the day that Jimi Hendrix entered London’s Olympic Studios to record a song using a new component. The song was “Purple Haze,” and the component was the Octavia guitar pedal, created for Hendrix by sound engineer Roger Mayer. The pedal was a key element of a complex chain of analog elements responsible for the final sound, including the acoustics of the studio room itself. When they sent the tapes for remastering in the United States, the sounds on it were so novel that they included an accompanying note explaining that the distortion at the end was not malfunction but intention. A few months later, Hendrix would deliver his legendary electric guitar performance at the Monterey International Pop Festival.

    “Purple Haze” firmly established that an electric guitar can be used not just as a stringed instrument with built-in pickups for convenient sound amplification, but also as a full-blown wave synthesizer whose output can be manipulated at will. Modern guitarists can reproduce Hendrix’s chain using separate plug-ins in digital audio workstation software, but the magic often disappears when everything is buffered and quantized. I wanted to find out if a more systematic approach could do a better job and provide insights into how Hendrix created his groundbreaking sound.

    My fascination with Hendrix’s Olympic Studios’ performance arose because there is a “Hendrix was an alien” narrative surrounding his musical innovation—that his music appeared more or less out of nowhere. I wanted to replace that narrative with an engineering-driven account that’s inspectable and reproducible—plots, models, and a signal chain from the guitar through the pedals that you can probe stage by stage…

    [And probe it Puranik does– fascinatingly, stage by stage…]

    … Hendrix didn’t speak in decibels and ohm values, but he collaborated with engineers who did—Mayer and Kramer—and iterated fast as a systems engineer. Reframing Hendrix as an engineer doesn’t diminish the art. It explains how one person, in under four years as a bandleader, could pull the electric guitar toward its full potential by systematically augmenting the instrument’s shortcomings for maximum expression.

    “Jimi Hendrix Was a Systems Engineer,” from @spectrum.ieee.org.

    See also: “The Technology of Jimi Hendrix.”

    * Jimi Hendrix, “Purple Haze”

    ###

    As we plug in, we might send well-connected birthday greetings to another wizard with wires, Geoff Tootill; he was born on this date in 1922. An electronic engineer and computer scientist, he worked (with Freddie Williams and Tom Kilburn) to design a computer memory. To that end they built the first electronic stored-program computer— the Manchester Baby— at the University of Manchester in 1948.

    The Baby was not intended to be a practical computing engine, but was instead designed as a testbed for the Williams tube, the first truly random-access memory. Nonethless, Baby worked: Alan Turing moved to Manchester to use it, and the following year, it inspired the Ferranti Mark 1, the world’s first commercially available electronic general-purpose stored-program digital computer.

    source

    #computerMemory #computing #culture #electronics #engineering #GeoffTootill #history #JimHendrix #ManchesterBaby #music #Technology
  17. “Scuse me while I kiss the sky”*…

    In 1967, Jimi Hendrix’s manager, Chas Chandler arranged for Jimi to meet Cream…

    There was a particular night when Cream allowed Jimi to join them for a jam at the Regent Street Polytechnic in central London. Meeting Clapton had been among the enticements Chandler had used to lure Hendrix to Britain: “Hendrix blew into a version of [Howlin’ Wolf’s] ‘Killing Floor’,” recalls [Tony] Garland, “and plays it at breakneck tempo, just like that – it stopped you in your tracks.” [Keith] Altham recalls Chandler going backstage after Clapton left in the middle of the song “which he had yet to master himself”; Clapton was furiously puffing on a cigarette and telling Chas: “You never told me he was that fucking good.” – source

    Hendrix’s extraodinary virtuosity has, altogether justly, gotten a great deal of attention; less well noted, his incredible mastery of the technology of music making, recording, and performance. Rohan Puranik explains…

    3 February 1967 is a day that belongs in the annals of music history. It’s the day that Jimi Hendrix entered London’s Olympic Studios to record a song using a new component. The song was “Purple Haze,” and the component was the Octavia guitar pedal, created for Hendrix by sound engineer Roger Mayer. The pedal was a key element of a complex chain of analog elements responsible for the final sound, including the acoustics of the studio room itself. When they sent the tapes for remastering in the United States, the sounds on it were so novel that they included an accompanying note explaining that the distortion at the end was not malfunction but intention. A few months later, Hendrix would deliver his legendary electric guitar performance at the Monterey International Pop Festival.

    “Purple Haze” firmly established that an electric guitar can be used not just as a stringed instrument with built-in pickups for convenient sound amplification, but also as a full-blown wave synthesizer whose output can be manipulated at will. Modern guitarists can reproduce Hendrix’s chain using separate plug-ins in digital audio workstation software, but the magic often disappears when everything is buffered and quantized. I wanted to find out if a more systematic approach could do a better job and provide insights into how Hendrix created his groundbreaking sound.

    My fascination with Hendrix’s Olympic Studios’ performance arose because there is a “Hendrix was an alien” narrative surrounding his musical innovation—that his music appeared more or less out of nowhere. I wanted to replace that narrative with an engineering-driven account that’s inspectable and reproducible—plots, models, and a signal chain from the guitar through the pedals that you can probe stage by stage…

    [And probe it Puranik does– fascinatingly, stage by stage…]

    … Hendrix didn’t speak in decibels and ohm values, but he collaborated with engineers who did—Mayer and Kramer—and iterated fast as a systems engineer. Reframing Hendrix as an engineer doesn’t diminish the art. It explains how one person, in under four years as a bandleader, could pull the electric guitar toward its full potential by systematically augmenting the instrument’s shortcomings for maximum expression.

    “Jimi Hendrix Was a Systems Engineer,” from @spectrum.ieee.org.

    See also: “The Technology of Jimi Hendrix.”

    * Jimi Hendrix, “Purple Haze”

    ###

    As we plug in, we might send well-connected birthday greetings to another wizard with wires, Geoff Tootill; he was born on this date in 1922. An electronic engineer and computer scientist, he worked (with Freddie Williams and Tom Kilburn) to design a computer memory. To that end they built the first electronic stored-program computer— the Manchester Baby— at the University of Manchester in 1948.

    The Baby was not intended to be a practical computing engine, but was instead designed as a testbed for the Williams tube, the first truly random-access memory. Nonethless, Baby worked: Alan Turing moved to Manchester to use it, and the following year, it inspired the Ferranti Mark 1, the world’s first commercially available electronic general-purpose stored-program digital computer.

    source

    #computerMemory #computing #culture #electronics #engineering #GeoffTootill #history #JimHendrix #ManchesterBaby #music #Technology
  18. “Scuse me while I kiss the sky”*…

    In 1967, Jimi Hendrix’s manager, Chas Chandler arranged for Jimi to meet Cream…

    There was a particular night when Cream allowed Jimi to join them for a jam at the Regent Street Polytechnic in central London. Meeting Clapton had been among the enticements Chandler had used to lure Hendrix to Britain: “Hendrix blew into a version of [Howlin’ Wolf’s] ‘Killing Floor’,” recalls [Tony] Garland, “and plays it at breakneck tempo, just like that – it stopped you in your tracks.” [Keith] Altham recalls Chandler going backstage after Clapton left in the middle of the song “which he had yet to master himself”; Clapton was furiously puffing on a cigarette and telling Chas: “You never told me he was that fucking good.” – source

    Hendrix’s extraodinary virtuosity has, altogether justly, gotten a great deal of attention; less well noted, his incredible mastery of the technology of music making, recording, and performance. Rohan Puranik explains…

    3 February 1967 is a day that belongs in the annals of music history. It’s the day that Jimi Hendrix entered London’s Olympic Studios to record a song using a new component. The song was “Purple Haze,” and the component was the Octavia guitar pedal, created for Hendrix by sound engineer Roger Mayer. The pedal was a key element of a complex chain of analog elements responsible for the final sound, including the acoustics of the studio room itself. When they sent the tapes for remastering in the United States, the sounds on it were so novel that they included an accompanying note explaining that the distortion at the end was not malfunction but intention. A few months later, Hendrix would deliver his legendary electric guitar performance at the Monterey International Pop Festival.

    “Purple Haze” firmly established that an electric guitar can be used not just as a stringed instrument with built-in pickups for convenient sound amplification, but also as a full-blown wave synthesizer whose output can be manipulated at will. Modern guitarists can reproduce Hendrix’s chain using separate plug-ins in digital audio workstation software, but the magic often disappears when everything is buffered and quantized. I wanted to find out if a more systematic approach could do a better job and provide insights into how Hendrix created his groundbreaking sound.

    My fascination with Hendrix’s Olympic Studios’ performance arose because there is a “Hendrix was an alien” narrative surrounding his musical innovation—that his music appeared more or less out of nowhere. I wanted to replace that narrative with an engineering-driven account that’s inspectable and reproducible—plots, models, and a signal chain from the guitar through the pedals that you can probe stage by stage…

    [And probe it Puranik does– fascinatingly, stage by stage…]

    … Hendrix didn’t speak in decibels and ohm values, but he collaborated with engineers who did—Mayer and Kramer—and iterated fast as a systems engineer. Reframing Hendrix as an engineer doesn’t diminish the art. It explains how one person, in under four years as a bandleader, could pull the electric guitar toward its full potential by systematically augmenting the instrument’s shortcomings for maximum expression.

    “Jimi Hendrix Was a Systems Engineer,” from @spectrum.ieee.org.

    See also: “The Technology of Jimi Hendrix.”

    * Jimi Hendrix, “Purple Haze”

    ###

    As we plug in, we might send well-connected birthday greetings to another wizard with wires, Geoff Tootill; he was born on this date in 1922. An electronic engineer and computer scientist, he worked (with Freddie Williams and Tom Kilburn) to design a computer memory. To that end they built the first electronic stored-program computer— the Manchester Baby— at the University of Manchester in 1948.

    The Baby was not intended to be a practical computing engine, but was instead designed as a testbed for the Williams tube, the first truly random-access memory. Nonethless, Baby worked: Alan Turing moved to Manchester to use it, and the following year, it inspired the Ferranti Mark 1, the world’s first commercially available electronic general-purpose stored-program digital computer.

    source

    #computerMemory #computers #computing #culture #electronics #engineering #GeoffTootill #Guitar #history #JimHendrix #ManchesterBaby #music #rock #rockMusic #Technology
  19. SSDs: More Than Just Storage, They Are Flash Memory

    Learn if SSDs are considered computer memory. Understand how flash memory works in SSDs and why the lines between memory and storage are blurring.

    #SSDs, #FlashMemory, #ComputerMemory, #TechExplained, #StorageVsMemory

    newsletter.tf/are-ssds-compute

  20. SSDs: More Than Just Storage, They Are Flash Memory

    Learn if SSDs are considered computer memory. Understand how flash memory works in SSDs and why the lines between memory and storage are blurring.

    #SSDs, #FlashMemory, #ComputerMemory, #TechExplained, #StorageVsMemory

    newsletter.tf/are-ssds-compute

  21. Good grief... You'd think either most memory manufacturers would make memory modules that are universally compatible with any machine...

    Or if that's absolutely impossible, that PC manufacturers would try to accept the most memory modules possible, or at least from the biggest brands like Crucial, Samsung, and SK Hynix.

    But no, not even remotely...

    So, Mac Minis (at least the 2018 version) apparently only accept Crucial memory, if you're not using their stock ones. SK and Samsung are out.

    8th-gen Intel NUC, refuses to boot with SK.

    HP T740, Samsung is fine, SK is no-go.

    HP T630, SK is fine (didn't try with Samsung, since I only had a pair and needed those for the T740).

    HP Elitedesk G4, SK is also fine.

    Mind you, both the Elitedesk and the Mac Mini are using the same CPU generation and presumably PCH, so one accepting it and the other not makes even less sense... :blobcatnotlikethisgoogly:

    #computermemory #computer #selfhosting

  22. Good grief... You'd think either most memory manufacturers would make memory modules that are universally compatible with any machine...

    Or if that's absolutely impossible, that PC manufacturers would try to accept the most memory modules possible, or at least from the biggest brands like Crucial, Samsung, and SK Hynix.

    But no, not even remotely...

    So, Mac Minis (at least the 2018 version) apparently only accept Crucial memory, if you're not using their stock ones. SK and Samsung are out.

    8th-gen Intel NUC, refuses to boot with SK.

    HP T740, Samsung is fine, SK is no-go.

    HP T630, SK is fine (didn't try with Samsung, since I only had a pair and needed those for the T740).

    HP Elitedesk G4, SK is also fine.

    Mind you, both the Elitedesk and the Mac Mini are using the same CPU generation and presumably PCH, so one accepting it and the other not makes even less sense... :blobcatnotlikethisgoogly:

    #computermemory #computer #selfhosting

  23. Good grief... You'd think either most memory manufacturers would make memory modules that are universally compatible with any machine...

    Or if that's absolutely impossible, that PC manufacturers would try to accept the most memory modules possible, or at least from the biggest brands like Crucial, Samsung, and SK Hynix.

    But no, not even remotely...

    So, Mac Minis (at least the 2018 version) apparently only accept Crucial memory, if you're not using their stock ones. SK and Samsung are out.

    8th-gen Intel NUC, refuses to boot with SK.

    HP T740, Samsung is fine, SK is no-go.

    HP T630, SK is fine (didn't try with Samsung, since I only had a pair and needed those for the T740).

    HP Elitedesk G4, SK is also fine.

    Mind you, both the Elitedesk and the Mac Mini are using the same CPU generation and presumably PCH, so one accepting it and the other not makes even less sense... :blobcatnotlikethisgoogly:

    #computermemory #computer #selfhosting

  24. Good grief... You'd think either most memory manufacturers would make memory modules that are universally compatible with any machine...

    Or if that's absolutely impossible, that PC manufacturers would try to accept the most memory modules possible, or at least from the biggest brands like Crucial, Samsung, and SK Hynix.

    But no, not even remotely...

    So, Mac Minis (at least the 2018 version) apparently only accept Crucial memory, if you're not using their stock ones. SK and Samsung are out.

    8th-gen Intel NUC, refuses to boot with SK.

    HP T740, Samsung is fine, SK is no-go.

    HP T630, SK is fine (didn't try with Samsung, since I only had a pair and needed those for the T740).

    HP Elitedesk G4, SK is also fine.

    Mind you, both the Elitedesk and the Mac Mini are using the same CPU generation and presumably PCH, so one accepting it and the other not makes even less sense... :blobcatnotlikethisgoogly:

    #computermemory #computer #selfhosting

  25. How-To Geek: Some Raspberry Pi Devices Are Getting a Price Hike. “Raspberry Pi has announced price increases of $5 to $10 on some of its 4GB and 8GB devices, including popular Compute Modules and the Raspberry Pi 500 unit. The primary culprit is the unprecedented global demand for memory, which shot up the demand roughly 120% compared to a year ago.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/07/how-to-geek-some-raspberry-pi-devices-are-getting-a-price-hike/

  26. How-To Geek: Some Raspberry Pi Devices Are Getting a Price Hike. “Raspberry Pi has announced price increases of $5 to $10 on some of its 4GB and 8GB devices, including popular Compute Modules and the Raspberry Pi 500 unit. The primary culprit is the unprecedented global demand for memory, which shot up the demand roughly 120% compared to a year ago.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/07/how-to-geek-some-raspberry-pi-devices-are-getting-a-price-hike/

  27. How-To Geek: Some Raspberry Pi Devices Are Getting a Price Hike. “Raspberry Pi has announced price increases of $5 to $10 on some of its 4GB and 8GB devices, including popular Compute Modules and the Raspberry Pi 500 unit. The primary culprit is the unprecedented global demand for memory, which shot up the demand roughly 120% compared to a year ago.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/07/how-to-geek-some-raspberry-pi-devices-are-getting-a-price-hike/

  28. How-To Geek: Some Raspberry Pi Devices Are Getting a Price Hike. “Raspberry Pi has announced price increases of $5 to $10 on some of its 4GB and 8GB devices, including popular Compute Modules and the Raspberry Pi 500 unit. The primary culprit is the unprecedented global demand for memory, which shot up the demand roughly 120% compared to a year ago.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/07/how-to-geek-some-raspberry-pi-devices-are-getting-a-price-hike/