{"id":192116,"date":"2026-03-02T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/extinction-watch-sub-500-computers-in-danger-according-to-report\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T13:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:45:13","slug":"extinction-watch-sub-500-computers-in-danger-according-to-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/extinction-watch-sub-500-computers-in-danger-according-to-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Extinction Watch: Sub-$500 Computers in Danger, According to Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/computing\/extinction-watch-sub-500-computers-in-danger-according-to-report\/\">Extinction Watch: Sub-$500 Computers in Danger, According to Report<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/computing\/extinction-watch-sub-500-computers-in-danger-according-to-report\/\">https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/computing\/extinction-watch-sub-500-computers-in-danger-according-to-report\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-02 13:40:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cnet.com\">www.cnet.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Increase in memory prices could halt production of sub-$500 laptops and desktops by 2028, according to Gartner.<\/li>\n<li>RAM and SSD storage costs expected to double, leading to a 17 percent rise in overall PC prices.<\/li>\n<li>PC users may delay upgrades, making cost recovery for brands harder.<\/li>\n<li>AI PCs adoption projected to be slow, taking until 2028 for them to comprise 50 percent of the PC market.<\/li>\n<li>Similar trends in mobile technology are affecting PC costs.<\/li>\n<li>Budget PCs are key for students and casual users, often priced at $500 or less.<\/li>\n<li>Gartner&#8217;s report arrives as Apple is speculated to release a budget-friendly MacBook soon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extinction Watch: Sub-$500 Computers in Danger, According to Report https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/computing\/extinction-watch-sub-500-computers-in-danger-according-to-report\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-02 13:40:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":192117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/a\/img\/resize\/2c7c726a143b801d9119505aead7670c79e8025c\/hub\/2024\/09\/26\/048233ea-d5ae-4b22-8e71-81b7a974fd1a\/asus-vivobook-slim-15.png?auto=webp&fit=crop&height=675&width=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192118,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192116\/revisions\/192118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}