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Americans' $800 Laptop Budgets Are Colliding With a $1,600 Reality, PCMag Survey Finds

A new PCMag survey reveals that American consumers' average laptop budget of $800 falls far short of the $1,600 average price for new models, a gap exacerbated by Apple's recent price hikes driven by rising memory and storage costs for AI infrastructure.

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Last month, in a move that reverberated through the tech industry, Apple raised prices across nearly all of its product lines in response to the surging costs of memory and storage, which are being gobbled up for AI infrastructure.

“We’re doing our best to mitigate the …

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