Parroted as the end-all, be-all of modern living, AI has proved to be more of a nuisance to everyone and, ironically, has hit tech enthusiasts the hardest. Instead of bettering their day-to-day, AI is only helping to surge prices and make them unavailable to the general populace while big-name corporations rake in the surplus and enjoy the shortage.
And that leaves you, the average Joe, unable to go in and buy new components or bring your machine up to snuff since some corporation out there (cough, OpenAI, cough) said "pretty please" to all the RAM manufacturers, and all of them somehow jumped ship and started only selling to them (who weren't actually buying them, just promising that they would, maybe).
Now, according to Tom's Hardware, 60 percent of PC owners have no plans to upgrade over the next two years. That is the result of a survey of 1,500 Tom's Hardware readers done over the last couple of weeks, thus reflecting the current state of PC enthusiasm or lack thereof.
There's a small fortune in this image now. Image via Andrey Matveev/Pexels
What's even more interesting is just how few people are planning to actually kit out their PC with some shiny new tech within





