I have a feeling it's going to be the norm for the next few years. I think we are about to enter a personal computer dark age.
this post was submitted on 08 Jan 2026
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As long am4 and 12th gen survives on these dark times we got chances of getting through this
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Xitter comments indicate that the PCs should be of sufficient spec to achieve a good sell value. So if it's not Win 11 compatible then Sofmap can't price it in hopes to resell them according to the social media responder.
Then they're in deep... I don't think there's a lot of win11-allowed hardware that people has just lying around.
I work in IT. People will often casually dump their hardware because it's now working the way they want.
Just today I heard of someone planning to get a new phone cause he had no more space on it...
That's why my wife wanted a new phone. It's a s21+, so the only upgrades with more space are $$$. Anything free is the same size. We transferred her photos and it was full again in a month.
She had to go delete her old conversations to make significant space.
Maybe you could lower her camera resolution, doubt she needs 50+Mpixels for every photo.
No, she needs it.
She's a hobbyist photographer, so she does take many pics. I'm planning on setting her up with storage space on the NAS. Also, clearing her chart history was a big deal.
Although being allowed by MS to run Win 11 is a bad indicator of it being compatible. I've run Win 11 on some old machines that didn't meet the compatibility but it ran well. I've also used some dirt cheap new Win 11 devices with barely a CPU and 4gb RAM that should not be running that but is officially supported by Win 11.
I am out of the loop and the article didn't provide the answers. I get the limited supply, but what PC shortage? Is this only impacting Japan? I see many advertisements in the USA for new PCs.
its do to the run on cpu and ram and graphics. shortage does not mean does not exist. just means higher prices and people more likely to buy used and refurbished.
There may not be a problem of Japan itself, but the act of this specific company in Japan that's responding to the "induced" PC hardware crisis. The induced doesn't mean that's some natural development (such as people is not buying PC anymore) but because critical components and materials (such as GPU/ram/SSD) are currently absorbed by the ongoing AI bubble eating and eating resources that are key for PC manufacturing.
I get the prices are going up, and DDR5 is hard to get. There are still many computers on the shelves locally.
Why is this specific company in Japan failing to get computers when so many others are doing an decent job of it?
Stores in this district also sell used devices. Due to the price of new hardware, people are holding on to their new hardware and do not sell it.
Because new is unavailable, people buy old.
I have a bunch of old PC parts from my old self builds, ISA modems and sound cards, AGP/VLB graphics cards (no voodoo tho sadly), IDE drives, various 30+ pin SIMMs and DIMMs, so many cables. I was saving them all to make some kinda art but never got around to it, kinda glad I didn't now, even if they're worthless I think it'd be fun to mess around with again, those old sound cards had some pretty nice chips on them. Sadly I did use a 386 motherboard as a candle holder so that one probably won't work lol.
If my pc dies I'm going to perish with it