The surging costs of memory and storage make for bad news for back-to-school laptop shoppers and tech consumers as a whole. Our recent survey shows a disconnect between expectations and actual prices.

Need a New Laptop? Prepare to Pay Double Your Budget“We’re doing our best to mitigate the huge increases that are being passed to us, and we’ve been trying to shield our customers from the increases,” outgoing Apple CEO Tim Cook told The Wall Street Journal, “but the situation has become unsustainable."bit.ly