Motherboard prices have increased pretty significantly. First comment on this hardforum post a entitled:
AMD and Intel motherboard prices skyrocket past surging inflation rates thanks to 35-40% ASP increases[1]:
"Motherboard prices is why I haven't upgraded my CPU. More important things going on right now."
The Google drive unlimited policy has been predictably abused by some of the datahoarding and piracy communities. Those groups have been paranoid for[1] a[2] while[3] that this could and was likely to go away, including tracking changes in the way Google marketed this to users.
People with pirated movie collections took this risk more seriously than a guy whose livelihood appears to be inexorably linked with the policy.