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

> Source: <https://uk.pcmag.com/laptops/166237/americans-800-laptop-budgets-are-colliding-with-a-1600-reality-pcmag-survey-finds>
> Published: 2026-07-20 16:19:50+00:00

Last month, in a move that reverberated through the tech industry, Apple [raised prices](https://uk.pcmag.com/laptops/165815/apple-raises-prices-across-its-lineup-including-macbook-neo-ipads) 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 …