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RAMAGEDDON! Apple’s RAM Crisis Is About to PUNCH Your Wallet (CultCast #748)

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4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 79 minutes

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0:00.0

Hello! And welcome to the Coltcast the best.

0:06.0

30 plus minute Apple conversation you're going to hear all week long.

0:11.6

I'm your host.

0:12.8

Airfront lies, join me today.

0:16.4

Well, yeah, you guess it.

0:18.4

It's just me again.

0:19.4

But you know what?

0:19.8

The Colt Commander, it's up. It's purring. It's whirring. I'm ready to get things stirring. And I don't know if you've been following the news in the last week, but there is a lot going on with Apple. And this rampocalypse, this Ramageddon, it has come for T.C. He's dreaming about it at night. He's sweating. He's waking up.

0:38.5

He's holding his snuggy tight because although Apple was trying to hold off the price

0:43.9

increases and other drastic measures to combat like this, absolutely insane.

0:48.5

And we're going to get into this.

0:49.4

This worldwide, not even just RAM component shortage, but all computer components in extremely short supply.

0:56.7

Prices are skyrocketing.

0:58.5

I don't think that Apple can just do nothing anymore.

1:01.2

They're having to take drastic actions, which we'll talk about here in a second.

1:04.1

I think this is going to affect our prospects for buying new Apple hardware for years to come.

1:09.7

I'm hoping I'm praying that there's not going to be drastic price hikes here,

1:13.3

but we got a lot to talk about.

1:14.9

You know, I literally talked about this last episode, did I not?

1:19.2

And I think I said something on the lines of there's going to be price hikes

1:22.3

or something like at some point, this price Armageddon or the Ram Armageddon that's happening is going to cause chaos for Apple.

1:31.8

And we weren't quite sure how that was going to happen now.

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