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Source: a community PSA aggregating six vendors (Bosgame, GMKtec, ACEMAGIC, Framework, Corsair, MSI). Direction is well-evidenced across independent listings; MAGNITUDE is not — the post itself flags ACEMAGIC's $4,999 as possibly a placeholder, and Corsair's jump came with reopened preorders, which could be a reset rather than a trend. ROOT CAUSE MATCHES WHAT WE FOUND ELSEWHERE: this is the same memory squeeze that delayed NVIDIA's RTX 50 Super refresh to CES 2027, where 3 GB GDDR7 modules reportedly cost $60-70 against $20 for 2 GB parts. Here it lands on high-density LPDDR5X for the 256-bit bus. The memory being SOLDERED is what gives manufacturers pricing power specifically on the high-capacity SKUs — a buyer cannot take a cheaper configuration and upgrade later — and it explains 64 GB staying in stock while 128 GB does not. WHAT IT CHANGES FOR US, which is why it is recorded at all: · A THIRD box becomes unlikely, so the two-box architecture is a durable design rather than a transitional one. · It WEAKENS the earlier "wait for Medusa Halo (LPDDR6, ~460 GB/s, 2027)" argument. A part needing even denser memory will be priced in the new tier, not the old one. · It STRENGTHENS the cross-host overlap case in the integration plan. That was justified on "most people replace rather than overlap, so this comparison is rare". If replacement is now expensive, keeping both boxes long-term is likely — and aibeast's 96 GB appreciates in usefulness rather than depreciating.