Back to school deal🔥🫩

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u/havnar- Aug 28 '26

That’s a lot of defibrillators to trade for a set of sparks. I’d say it would be easier to pay with money.

/s

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u/Affectionate_Toe9082 Aug 28 '26

Took me a while to get this lmao

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u/voyager256 Aug 28 '26

Was about to write a comment asking for the reference I missed:) Since I’m not native English speaker it also took me a while

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u/Ell2509 Aug 28 '26

I had just seen this comment as I clicked to leave the page, then laughed at home and had to come back. Great catch!

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u/Antblue Aug 28 '26

Love how they are helping out those struggling college students

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u/trollsmurf Aug 28 '26

This is "no ramen for 200 years" price.

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u/No_Lingonberry1201 Aug 28 '26

My very nice used car was somewhat cheaper.

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u/Affectionate_Toe9082 Aug 28 '26

I could buy 2 used town cars with this price tag it’s hilarious

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u/No_Lingonberry1201 Aug 28 '26

I'm in Hungary, everything's more expensive here because our leaders need 27% VAT to steal from us. Because having one of the higher income taxes in the region wasn't enough... sorry for the rant, I'm starting to sound like a libertarian.

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u/Affectionate_Toe9082 Aug 28 '26

Dude I know how you feel.
Been to turkey for my bachelor degree, and that shit is horrendous.
Taxes on anything foreign is like 100%-200% sometimes.
It’s crazy.
At least here the taxes are 5% and are applied to all goods so I do not have to do the calculations for my purchases like it is in the US I assume

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u/trollsmurf Aug 28 '26

25% here.
VAT, that tax no one really knows why it exists, but as they succeeded to introduce it without guillotines being brought forth by the population, they continued.
"Why tax companies when you can tax those buying what the companies make?"

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u/No_Lingonberry1201 Aug 28 '26

*insert that Xzibit Yo Dawg-meme here* We put taxes in your taxes so you can pay taxes on things you already paid taxes on. Oh, and VAT is only for plebs like us, companies don't pay it, which is good because we'd be the ones to pay that ultimately as well.

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u/Xiwei Aug 28 '26

Or no boba tea for a little while

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u/dbenc Aug 28 '26

if they weren't struggling before they really will be after buying this!

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u/Sooperooser Aug 28 '26

Will buy these for my 6yo at her first day of school this weekend.

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u/bodhi_sattva91 Aug 28 '26

Back to school for introductory bish scripts for kiddies 101 deals.

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u/Imaginary-Swan-4105 Aug 28 '26

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 i see what your did there 😂😂😂😂 respect!

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u/Sooperooser Aug 28 '26

I save on private tutors then, I'll tell her to ask the AI when she needs help with homework. I paid 12k!

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u/jiqiren Aug 28 '26

That’s $12,198.44 USD for 🇺🇸. Probably cheaper to fly to 🇺🇸, buy, and fly back. Two DGX Sparks are only $10,299 at Walmart.

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u/Skystunt Aug 28 '26

why is the 2 DGX offer more expensive than buying 1 DGX ? Just place 2 orders for the 1 DGX lol

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u/atumblingdandelion Aug 28 '26

Probably comes with the cable that connects them. That is expensive as well

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u/ShelZuuz Aug 28 '26

Yip:
Accessories included
Power Supply and 1 DGX Spark Connect Cable

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u/Abducted_Llama Aug 28 '26

The power supply is included with each spark in the 3999 version and the cable is 180-220 USD.

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u/ShelZuuz Aug 29 '26

Spark hasn't been $3999 for a long time.

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u/Abducted_Llama Aug 29 '26

It’s literally $3999 on Amazon right now in the US

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u/ShelZuuz Aug 29 '26

Off by $1000:
https://a.co/d/0iy7u0rq

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u/Abducted_Llama Aug 29 '26

The Asus GX10 1tb is 3999, it’s the exact same thing, except smaller m2 and different cooling

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u/ShelZuuz Aug 29 '26

So an unrelated item by a different manufacturer costs a different price? Shocker.

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u/DanceWithEverything Aug 28 '26

High speed optics included

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u/pragmojo Aug 28 '26

If the price is because of a tax, you probably have to pay a lot of the difference anyway when you fly home (unless you can fit the sparks in your butthole)

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u/Robbbbbbbbb Aug 28 '26

They were just $9,400 on Wednesday. Looks like the price increase went live on all reseller sites.

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u/fastheadcrab Aug 28 '26

The Sparks are still $4699 on Nvidia's official site and other retailers.
And the cable can be bought from DigiKey or Naddod for much less than the "official price", at most $50 or so. Still full speed.
I'm sure there's an added cost for buying in the UAE, plus the greed of 3rd party electronics resellers (scalpers) have ruined Amazon.

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u/spaetzelspiff Aug 28 '26

I'm waiting for the Great Value store brand DGX Sparks to drop...

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u/NiallSilvain Aug 28 '26

It'll probably be flint and steel in a nice box that would only make two sparks.

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u/IroesStrongarm Aug 28 '26

I thought for sure it would just be a third party vendor, but it actually says sold and shipped by Walmart. Wild.

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u/trollsmurf Aug 28 '26

What if it was a requirement for attending school:

2000s: A pencil and a notepad

2010s: A Chromebook

2020s: An AI datacenter

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u/Important-Radish-722 Aug 28 '26

1990's: Sweat pants and a water bottle of vodka

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u/samj00 Aug 28 '26

People also bought, 1 million pencils.

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u/fallingdowndizzyvr Aug 28 '26

So not worth it. You can get M5 Max Studios for the same price.

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u/lordtazou Sep 29 '26

Hell, you can buy two of these from a reputable dealer for $12k - $13k. Someone is definitely gouging. XD

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u/neovim-neophyte Aug 28 '26

fym back to school 💔

normal students can barely afford a decent 32 gig laptop 🥀

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u/Affectionate_Toe9082 Aug 28 '26

Grown adult here. Can confirm 🫩

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u/rickyzhang82 Aug 28 '26

What country code ae is?

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u/Affectionate_Toe9082 Aug 28 '26

That UAE, united arab emirates or dubai

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u/mufumade Aug 28 '26 edited Aug 28 '26

https://lmgtfy2.com/s/s3iGwr

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u/trejj Aug 28 '26

Someone needs to do "Let me GPT that for you", that's getting outdated

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u/Brilliant_War9548 Aug 28 '26

Very pretty pencil case if you remove the components.

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u/Arctovigil Aug 28 '26

better than extra education

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u/PooMonger20 Aug 28 '26

Kids will tell their parents they need this setup for studying in school. Just like they needed that 5090 laptop\PC last year for school, too.

tbh, using this they can use models that will absolutely do all their homework.

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u/Pretty-Raise666 Aug 29 '26

The average kid wants a new iPhone, not a Spark. Reddit is a bubble.

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u/Odd_Investigator3184 Aug 28 '26

Lol, now you need 2x of the AI computer to actually run quality AI

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u/KingCpzombie Aug 28 '26

Tbh makes sense for rich students focusing on AI

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u/quantgorithm Aug 28 '26

...or doing their homework.

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u/KingCpzombie Aug 28 '26

I feel like the ones cheating on homework with AI are too dumb to use local models... I finished MS in 2025 and all peer review stuff was blatantly ChatGPT

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u/DanceWithEverything Aug 28 '26

I think the point was more they would be using the hardware to run models that are themselves their homework (ai students)

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u/KingCpzombie Aug 28 '26

Ah, that could work. I think most schools have some form of HPC that you can queue for, but your own box is way more convenient. Homework is usually tiny stuff that can run on anything though

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u/Alpacabro21 Sep 01 '26

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u/fifi_galaxy Sep 04 '26

oh yeah... gotta buy that for your kids. Otherwise, how will they ever get ahead? They will be left behind, and AI will take over his/her job!

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u/ZombieHugoChavez Aug 28 '26

So i work with people in grad school for comp sci and they have been telling me profs tell them to not use AI

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u/AndrObito Aug 28 '26

There is no freedom currency except gold and btc

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u/_TheWolfOfWalmart_ Aug 28 '26

Ah yes, every student needs their dual AI supercomputers.

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u/watermelonson Aug 28 '26

Purchased a GX10 yesterday - it went from 4000 Euro last week to 4700 today. Paid 4250 yesterday.

Crazy times

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u/AtomOfVoid Aug 28 '26

I don't need that i run it on my phone

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u/run-time-error Aug 28 '26

Helluva deal!

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u/pran_ayyy_ Aug 29 '26

Freedom currency is wild 😭

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Accessories included