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What to do with old RAM?
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mrgaskell
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Jul 22, 2006, 03:00 PM
 
I have two 256mb sticks from my MacBook that I would like to get rid of. Anyone know of any way, person or company that would take them off my hands?
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Jul 22, 2006, 03:04 PM
 
Old RAM + drill = keychain dongle
     
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Jul 22, 2006, 03:04 PM
 
Ihave same issue. They are sitting on my dining room table - just where I left them after going up to 2 Gig. Surprised my wife has not yelled at me about them...yet :-)
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Jul 22, 2006, 04:12 PM
 
I threw mine away, haha.
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Jul 22, 2006, 04:46 PM
 
ebay for $20
     
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Jul 22, 2006, 04:51 PM
 
keep them if anything happens to yours Macbooks and you have to bring it to apple.
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Jul 22, 2006, 05:24 PM
 
I like mduells idea, make a sweet keychain out of it.
     
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Jul 22, 2006, 08:41 PM
 
Actually I always think perfectly good memory is always useful.
I still have 64MB sticks of PC100 SDRAM from like 1996.

I would ddefinately wrap that extra macbook memory up and keep it. Memory can be fickle if you accidentally fry a stick or it goes corrupt or some crap! Someday in the future, you might be thanking yourself you have some backup sticks on a rainy day! 256~512 MB of memory installed is better than broken memory installed, thats for sure!
     
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Jul 22, 2006, 08:43 PM
 
I would keep it, or make a keychain. I would pay good money for a RAM keychain.
     
mrgaskell  (op)
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Jul 22, 2006, 11:01 PM
 
Although the practical side of me agrees with fox-orian in regards to keeping the RAM, the greedy side says "eBay!" but the geeky side of says, "Oh, Yeah!" to making a keychain. I think the keychains have it!
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Jul 22, 2006, 11:10 PM
 
This reminds me of the old days at Intel. They used to make keychains out of old bad CPU die. Kinda cool.

Do I really need to put the old stuff back in if I access Apple Care for something else???
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Jul 23, 2006, 12:43 AM
 
Well, I'll make two of them. Who wants the other one?
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Jul 23, 2006, 01:02 AM
 
Originally Posted by masugu
Do I really need to put the old stuff back in if I access Apple Care for something else???
You don't need to, but it's probably a good idea to take out anything that you upgraded on the computer, just in case.

Originally Posted by mrgaskell
Well, I'll make two of them. Who wants the other one?
I'd love to get one of those! I'm way too much of a packrat to do that to mine, just in case.

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Jul 23, 2006, 03:21 AM
 
Well, took all of about 5 minutes to get 'em done with a Drimmel tool. Looks pretty cool, actually.
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Jul 23, 2006, 05:46 AM
 
I'd eat them, but a keychain sounds fine too.
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Jul 23, 2006, 10:59 AM
 
Is it at all unsafe to drill through RAM? Is there any stored electricity to cause shock/potential for a small (or large, although doubtful) explosion while drilling RAM?

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Jul 23, 2006, 02:25 PM
 
I'll take one if you still have one.
     
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Jul 23, 2006, 02:27 PM
 
Originally Posted by Chris Gilpin
Is it at all unsafe to drill through RAM? Is there any stored electricity to cause shock/potential for a small (or large, although doubtful) explosion while drilling RAM?

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Jul 23, 2006, 02:33 PM
 
Originally Posted by Chris Gilpin
Is it at all unsafe to drill through RAM? Is there any stored electricity to cause shock/potential for a small (or large, although doubtful) explosion while drilling RAM?
No. No.
     
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Jul 23, 2006, 03:02 PM
 
Drilling through RAM is just as safe as drilling through a piece of wood.
     
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Jul 23, 2006, 10:28 PM
 
To be fair, I suppose, I've taken old processors and super glued them onto the cover of my hardcover sketchbook.

The guys at the apple store really got a kick when one of them asked "Dude, is that a G3 on the cover of your sketchbook?"
     
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Jul 24, 2006, 12:47 AM
 
Originally Posted by fox-orian
To be fair, I suppose, I've taken old processors and super glued them onto the cover of my hardcover sketchbook.

The guys at the apple store really got a kick when one of them asked "Dude, is that a G3 on the cover of your sketchbook?"

They have trade-in value; if you buy from OEMpcworld, they will buy your old memory chips.

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Jul 24, 2006, 02:13 AM
 
I traded my extra stick/keychain away to another MacNNer friend of mine. It is a cool keychain, very geeky.
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