Ava on PMQ podcast and Ian Liddell-Grainger expensive

She is bang on

I’ve built several PCs and work in the industry and know how much this stuff should cost.

5k on a desktop is absolutely unfathomable. The newest nvidia consumer product (released last week) is the 5090, it’s already out of stock, but you can get it from resellers for £3.5k. That is the maximum.

The gpu is the most expensive part of the desktop, if you’re going premium you’d struggle to get together another £1k for all the other top of the line parts, motherboard, cpu (maybe) but there is something dodgy going on for sure.

£1.8k for a iPad Pro is also not just ridiculous it’s borderline impossible.

I think the most striking thing is the £200 set up fee, there is clearly a reseller involved that they offered a service for.

£8k of public money has gone somewhere and it’s not on Ian Liddell-Grainger trying to play Fortnite (it doesn’t even need a 5090, you can play it fine with a quad core and 2050).