Idk man. Shit’s so wild, they might never go down (fascism, ww3, complete meltdown of capitalistic markets due to french revolution levels of incompetent wealth inequality in some specific third world country out in the west, or some wild interpolation of them all).

Or they might go down next week when some specific big AI company starts selling off datacenter parts (get ready for dirt cheap racks)

Though, with datacenter parts, problem is, they’re mostly completely useless for consumers, because of hardware vendor lock in, most likely.

I guess in the end, I am happy I bought more storage space, gpu, and replacement cpu when I needed it, even if it seemed a bit high (now it’s cosmic)

If you need it for work/self now - best time is now, if you don’t need it for now - later.

Speculating for necessary items (even with rental bullshit) won’t help you most likely, and would just add mental pain.

Can always buy used, and older, if that works for you (though the prices are ridiculously also high)