Jesus christ! I bought an HP 845 G7 too (my first 16GB RAM pc too) months ago for around $300 and I still complained a lot because that’s not the usual price. We have AI to thank for the skyrocketing price of RAM.

I’m just wondering, would it not have been possible to get something like a HP (which I think would’ve been significantly cheaper compare to this one) and just install things from the Microsoft ecosystem on it?