I'm not an AI hater per se, but I generally avoid enabling AI, or buying toys whose only selling point is AI. With that in mind, I avoided higher end Google Pixels or ARM based Windows PCs (which aren't compatible w/ legacy software or devices that can only connect to Wintel boxes) or anything that only screams AI and nothing else. AI has its limitations, as one can see if one probes much into querying it on questions, and people who use it to substitute their own thinking are asking to be badly disappointed
As for the shortages, that's a cyclical thing. Memory becomes expensive, then manufacturers make more of it to rake in the numbers, which creates a glut in the market, that causes memory prices to fall, which causes manufacturers to cut down production, which in turn increases prices, lather, rinse, repeat. Same goes for SSDs, GPUs, NPUs.... Don't read too much into the current shortages: memory will become cheap again
