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You can't really speak of "getting hosed" with newly-introduced product prices in comparison to the present. Production costs come down; uncertainties about demand resolve themselves; product improvement occurs; the up-front R&D costs are eventually recouped through sales during an earlier time.
I spent about $190 on an Intel Elm Crest 128GB in 2011, mostly hoping to use it in an ISRT configuration. It was too big for ISRT; the ISRT drivers at that time were buggy, but quickly fixed. I purchased a Patriot Pyro for about $140 to replace it, and moved the Elm Crest to Mom's LGA-775 system where it seems to be working just fine.
Mom doesn't complain about hourglass delays -- a reprieve for other complaints while she loads up her e-mail inbox with Publishers' Clearinghouse announcements and other spam. So it was more or less worth the price in unintended ways.
I spent about $190 on an Intel Elm Crest 128GB in 2011, mostly hoping to use it in an ISRT configuration. It was too big for ISRT; the ISRT drivers at that time were buggy, but quickly fixed. I purchased a Patriot Pyro for about $140 to replace it, and moved the Elm Crest to Mom's LGA-775 system where it seems to be working just fine.
Mom doesn't complain about hourglass delays -- a reprieve for other complaints while she loads up her e-mail inbox with Publishers' Clearinghouse announcements and other spam. So it was more or less worth the price in unintended ways.