Author: Matt Taylor
Date: 23:07:13 02/19/03
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On February 19, 2003 at 23:25:54, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >On February 19, 2003 at 00:39:57, Matt Taylor wrote: > >>On February 18, 2003 at 17:35:00, Charles Worthington wrote: >> >>>The Memory in question Matt is the new DDR266 SDRAM. Prices at Dell.com are >>>cuurently in the $4,000.00 neighborhood for 4GB (1GB DIMMS). I thought it was >>>way expensive as well but far preferable in performance to the RDRAM I have in >>>my current Dell Machine. It is PC800 and is not the best of performers. >> >>Please explain. New? "DDR266" is the same thing as pc2100, the same thing as the >>ram I bought 10 months ago for $330. Four would cost $1,320, not $4,000. >> >>I am sure the pc800 ram would blow pc2100 DDR SDRAM away in some things. Maybe >>not chess, but in other things... > >Dell (and most/all other major OEM vendors) absolutely gouge people on the price >of memory. $4000 for 4GB of RAM may seem incredibly high (and it is, really, >when you can buy it yourself for ~1/3 the price), but I've seen some far worse >prices on memory in the past. Yes. You could probably sell your soul on eBay, and you wouldn't be offered as much. -Matt
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