Why You Might Not Want to Wait Until Next Year to Buy Your Next Laptop

You can blame AI for lots of things, from the environmental impact of enormous AI data centers consuming massive amounts of land, water and power to AI slop that is somehow making advertising and social media even worse. And now, as you watch your electricity bill rise while sitting through terrible McDonald’s and Coca-Cola holiday commercials, you can blame AI for the rising cost of computers. 

The AI boom has led to a shortage of PC memory, as AI companies gobble up RAM and storage to help power the…