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Ram brands which to stick with
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tall18u
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Which brands of ram should one stick with when buying ram(pc133/100 dimms). Want to take advantage of the low prices now before they go up again but just want to stick with the major brands that have proven reliable with macs.
Thanks
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Senior User
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Cambridge, England
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I bought 768MB of Crucial RAM for my PowerMac G4/533DP and it worked fine -- had no problem with the much-discussed Firmware upgrade either!
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Forum Regular
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Salem, OR
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OWC (macsales.com) has great prices, wonderful service, money back guarantee.
I have bought two OWC 512meg 133 RAM modules (now $144 plus change) for my 733, one OWC 256meg 100 for my new iBook. Many other memory modules in the past. Only has one flawed (year ago) and they replaced it immediately.
Highly recommended.
Karen
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Join Date: Apr 2000
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Crucial are good - Apple gets their RAM from Crucial, and I've heard of no probs with customer service or the RAM itself when Crucial was the vendor...
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Crucial is really the only brand any OCer would use, and they are pushing their ram out of spec and expect it to function perfectly. and it does. So i would go with Crucial.
Micron also does well , but it is not as sought after as the crucial sticks. i found azza.com sells high quality ram for a good price and they are very good. i had no problems when i got my 256mb stick from them.
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Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Istanbul
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I'd like to throw in my vote of confidence for Boundless Technology. Ordered a 256MB PC133 module for my Mac a few weeks ago and price/service ratio has been truly industry-leading.
Speed
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Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Berkeley, CA USA
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crucial crucial crucial
crucial is part of micron, so micron memory=crucial memory
crucial prices are pretty low too, and they have free 2nd day shipping
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Long Island,NY
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Another vote for Crucial, I have only Crucial memory in both my iMac 400 DV and G4 533 DP.
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tall18u
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Good to see all the responses, thanks. It can be a minefield for buying ram if one isn't careful.
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Join Date: Aug 2000
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Most of what you'll hear about RAM is rumor and speculation, IMO (e.g. Crucial is "better" then Micron - Crucial is a division of Micron). I had a negative experience with Crucial - ordered some RAM on a free shipping special and they waited a week to inform me that they were out of it. Ended up ordering from DMS and they did fine. On another week, it could've been the other way around. All vendors makes mistakes. As for the quality of the RAM, I've seen no evidence that one vendor is meaningfully better than another.
My advice is to go to www.ramseeker.com and order from whatever lowest-price vendor offers an unconditional guarantee. But you probably can't go wrong with Crucial - they're the biggest outfit and have reasonable prices and a good guarantee.
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