RAM prices are ridiculous. AI is consuming all the GPUs, and Christmas is coming. I need your help desperately, as I have two young programmers who need new machines this year, and I'm not made of money. What can I do to max my purchasing power?

41:40I need your help desperately as I have two young programmers who need new machines this year and I'm not made of money. What can I do to max my purchasing power? Purchasing, maxing, that's the new thing all the kids are doing. I feel you, Chad. We're all feeling the pinch. I mean, no one likes it when these prices are going up. And I agree with you.

42:05Like, I would love to get a new Mac Studio. It's so expensive. I mean, it was never cheap in the first place. But it's just, it feels like things keep getting further and further and further out of reach. you know I like I need I need new backup drives and now they're 50% more than they were last year and I've just basically done like a complete spending

42:27freeze I'm just trying to make do with what I have and offload stuff to back blaze when I run out of local storage and have as much cloud backup as possible because it's just so expensive right now Ronnie what's going on what How do you feel about this? How is this impacting you? Yeah, so if prices were to rise a bit, like a few percent, that would be easy to overcome.

42:54The thing is, and most people are not aware of this, of course, people in the industry knows this, but prices have gone insane. We talk about three times, maybe four times up. up. And this goes for especially memory, and also CPUs and GPUs, of course. So buying a new gaming machine these days, if that is something that people are, and specifically the young ones, are looking for, the effect on the price is mindless. It's not possible

43:31to purchase that. So my best suggestion would be to go to where companies are selling new but used stuff. Sometimes you can even get it perfectly new because most of those used sites doesn't even care about the new pricing. So they don't mark up their prices at least not to the same amount that the new prices for new products are and you can really get a bargain uh looking through those

44:05i'm not specifically mentioning anything because this is an international broadcast and we we have different sites around the globe but there are a few ones in the chat that are mentioned as good alternatives in in the us and of course you have ebay etc and i would i would just look at that buying new stuff now for youths, especially if it's PC-based systems and even Apple's,

44:28it's like you need a bank loan with 15 years write-on. So it's mindless. Go ahead, Courtney. Yeah, I concur with Ronnie. Look at the used market because, you know, if they're kids and they like gaming, get them into retro games, you know, the games that you played as a child. You know, if they get them into retro games, They will run on anything pretty much, even in emulation from those old 8-bit software from Atari and Commodore and all of those great machines from the 80s and 90s.

45:06And it doesn't take much hardware to run them. And like Ronnie was saying, you can pick up a used machine that has 164, 32 or 64 gigabytes of DDR4. You can still pick them up pretty cheap, load them up with enough RAM. And as an interface to the web, they work just fine. A good browser will run really good on those, especially if you put Linux on them.

45:32It's fairly lightweight. And they can connect to the internet and vibe code all they want. just take the money you saved off of buying expensive DDR5 RAM and put it into tokens for your vibe coding kids because that's what they're going to need to learn how to use anyway they're going to have to learn how to use AI to do programming instead of learning it from the ground up