[iPaul UK]

Well.. makes a change from yet another thread about the iPod!

But seriously.. Ram prices are still getting lower all the time. Just how much lower can it get? Also, will the prices some day shoot up again? (Bar an earthquake in the far away places that produce this stuff). Why is it that Ram was always so expensive untill relatively recently? Just curious..

[dvd]

it can get lower if the economy gets lower. Hey even lower than wiggle's life =]

[Apple Pro Underwear]

i think the lowest we'll see it is right after this christmas.

I would buy 512 for my tibook but i'm getting the next g5 and i'm saving for that as well as the 2 gigs of ram i intend to dump in it

Fortunately for you, Apple has cleverly designed their products to be "expansion-proof", meaning that you don't have to bother yourself with upgrades such as RAM, ROM, etc. Buying RAM isn't even an issue for you.

[GetSome681]

Originally posted by <wiggles>:
<STRONG>Fortunately for you, Apple has cleverly designed their products to be "expansion-proof", meaning that you don't have to bother yourself with upgrades such as RAM, ROM, etc. Buying RAM isn't even an issue for you.</STRONG>

What the crap are you talking about man? How is it that I've bought some and installed it in my G4? Man, can one of the mods, or the head of MacNN get rid of this guy somehow? He's really starting to sour the taste of the boards and this site. Just like you can get arrested for public drunkness or lewdness...someone get this guy off the streets (forums)!!!!

[inkfinger]

Originally posted by &lt;wiggles&gt;:
Fortunately for you, Apple has cleverly designed their products to be "expansion-proof", meaning that you don't have to bother yourself with upgrades such as RAM, ROM, etc. Buying RAM isn't even an issue for you.

Wiggles you have no clue.

Not only is adding memory to Macs possible, but it's very easy to do.

With the iMac (slot loader) simply turn it face down, open small hatch underneath with a coin & pop the memory in the waiting slot.

I beleive with Ti & iBooks you just unclip the keyboard & the memory is beneath & with the G4 there's a simple catch you release & the whole side of the machine opens up allowing easy access.

Here endeth yet another lesson

Inkfinger

[ZO]

wiggles = flamebait

I can't believe you people even pay attention to it

[iPaul UK]

Oh my.. Not quite the response I was expecting.. Although clearly Wiggles made a special effort to be that stupid!

Anyways.. I think most people understood what I was getting at.. Only a year or two ago, Ram always cost a small fortune. Now it's almost got to the point where the postage and packing to ship our extra ram costs more than the ram itself! (Ok, I jest a little). So I merely wanted to know if there was some obvious reason for the sudden plummet in prices. And if it was possible that they might one day increase again?

I think it's to do with the current downturn in PC sales, which in turn has lead to a surplus of ram which manufacturers are desperate to shift.
Prices might go up again when PC sales rise.

Cheers!

Inkfinger

[marcUK]

Too bad we don't know what type of ram there will be in the g5, I would go out and buy some now, just to make sure I get my 4GB worth before the prices shoot up

[davidmelvin]

Paul,

What's the cheapest you've seen RAM at? and where in the UK? I'm getting a second hand PowerBook G3 and given the ridiculously low prices, I figure I might as well dump another pile of memory in it.

cheers

Dave

[Todd Madson]

Too bad wiggles is uninformed as well as he is clueless. Trolls will do that though.

I went to my local PC outfitter, you know the place - tower cases, drives,
ram for PC/Windows types.

I bought two 512 meg PC133 S-DRAM chips for $49 a pop and went home and installed them in my G4 tower and now I'm at 1.2 gigs of ram.

I'll probably have 1.7 by christmas and the full 2 gigs by New Years.

The same place has great prices on 7200 rpm enhanced IDE drives so I'll
likely expand that at some point here in the future.

G4 is the most expandable box I can think of.

Last weekend I brought some of my smaller ram chips over to my
father-in-laws place, opened his iMac and brought him to 128 megs
which made them happy. It was the simplest expansion I can think
of.

[dreilly1]

I remember when one of the new Windows version came out (It might have been Win95, IIRC). There was a theory that Microsoft had been quietly buying up stocks of the ram in the year previous to the launch, and started dumping it on the market. Another theory was that Microsoft was giving secret incentives to the RAM chip companies to hold back production until Win95 was released.
The idea was that home users were more likely to buy the OS upgrade for their older machines if they were also able to pick up cheap RAM upgrades to bring the old machines up to spec. Microsoft knew that they could bury any kickbacks in their accounting practices, but that everyone would be looking at how many units they sold that year, which was ultimately more important.
I always thought that this theory gave too much credit to Microsoft and the ability of one company to manipulate markets, but isn't it wierd to see the same pattern developing again?

[iPaul UK]

davidmelvin, By far the cheapest people in the UK for ram, has to be www.crucial.com/UK I have ordered several times from them. And I have had no problems with my orders what-so-ever. Free & fast delivery too..

Example prices,

iMac (slot loaders) 256MB modules = £19.79 +vat. 512MB = £39.59 +vat

iBook (most models) 256MB = £31.49 +vat

Memory for other late model Mac's will be similar prices. But they also have good prices for memory modules used in older Macs too, Like DIMMS etc..

Cripes! That's less than I paid for 256 mb a few weeks ago!

Have to agree though, Crucial is the place shop for ram.

Cheers!

Inkfinger

[as2]

You can also try www.aria.co.uk for UK memory.

512MB of PC133 RAM is only £32.90 including VAT. (£4.99 Delivery)

This can be used in the slot loading iMac, and the G3/G4 range.

Adam

[Nebrie]

Well, Hynix has been bailed out (yet again) by creditors. Samsung, by some bizzare logic has decided to signifigantly increase RAM production. Both Micron and Japanese manufacturers have filed anti-dumping charges against those Korean ram companies though it's unlikely to stick as no one is making any money with the low prices. No one is getting out of the ram market either, so prices will just continue to plunge.

[Metzen]

Originally posted by Nebrie:
<STRONG>Well, Hynix has been bailed out (yet again) by creditors. Samsung, by some bizzare logic has decided to signifigantly increase RAM production. Both Micron and Japanese manufacturers have filed anti-dumping charges against those Korean ram companies though it's unlikely to stick as no one is making any money with the low prices. No one is getting out of the ram market either, so prices will just continue to plunge.</STRONG>

What we need is a motherboard that can support 12 slots of RAM. That way everyone will buy sh*t loads of RAM to plug into there computers and the RAM manufactuerers won't be loosing so much money on it.

Imagine... 12 slots * 512 megs/slot... Yummm.... And I remember when the thought of a 1.5Gig of RAM in a 9600 whet my appetite.

[davidmelvin]

crucial are good aren't they. I'll be making an order just as soon as i get my hands on the mac. finally, fast reliable computing.

[Parky]

Crutial UK are very good.
I ordered 512MB for my iMac, and 256MB for my iBook, total cost £70.
It was ordered quite late on Friday afternoon, and it arrived by special delivery (included in the price) on Saturday morning.
I have installed both, and now I have an iMac with 768MB and my iBook has it's max memory of 320MB.

I gave the 128MB I had in the iBook to a friend, so we both got an upgrade.