The Tariff Wars are in full swing, and reports are Asus, Lenovo, and perhaps HP are suspending shipments and redirecting sales to the EU and Asian buyers, while Apple loaded up 5-7 Boeing 747's with iPhones and Macs to try to have 1 week supply stateside. No idea what M$ is doing, but apparently their manufacturing is in China and Vietnam, with Vietnam having 46% and China (after yesterday) allegedly 104%. Insanity (at short supply) reigns supreme.
What is the tribe going to do? For me, it means I will hang on to both the M4 MBP and SP11-5g for a little while to see how thi effects the resale market. Looking at Amazon, prices on new M4 MBP 14 (like mine) are heading back up to full retail for now.
I luckily managed to acquire a 50 series GPU card before it hiked up another couple hundred dollars, and that's probably going to be my last big tech purchase for a while. With everything going on, I'm not selling the 30 series card it is replacing. And overall, I'm not selling any of my older electronics and hording them for various projects/uses.
Instead of consolidating to a few devices as usual, I find that I'm deploying my tech needs across more devices to sort of evenly distribute my wear and tear, thinking that it will make my stuff last longer. Even the GB12 has been dusted off to remotely log into more powerful GPU laptops, so that the lighter and more compact GB12 can bear the brunt of travel wear.
Basically my at-home tech hub has expanded, the 50 series card handles AI, the 30 series handles 3D apps, the 2 GPU laptops mostly never leave the house. Now the smaller devices (GB12, Fold5, and AR glasses for virtual big screen) are in the travel kit.