[rescue] Ultra 1 newbie q'ns

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Mon, 01 Jan 2007 @ 12:08 -0500, Steve Sandau said:

> Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> > Sat, 30 Dec 2006 @ 19:07 -0500, Steve Sandau said:
> > 
> >> I am glad that at least prices are a little more sane now. The amount of 
> >> RAM required for certain things is entirely out of hand though.
> > 
> > I just bought 2GB of DDR400 for my AMD64 system.
> > 
> > I thought that RAM prices were rather high. I paid $240 for Kingston
> > HyperX. I know I could get cheaper RAM, but I know this stuff generally
> > "always works".
> > 
> > RAM was going down for awhile, but certainly hasn't lately.
> 
> Yeah; I was comparing to years ago not months ago. I have not been 
> keeping track much recently. I'm remembering buying RAM at $75/meg and 
> comparing it to the current fraction of a dollar per meg.

Well, I was talking about years ago too.

2-3 years ago, 1GB of RAM was about $180. Now it is $200-250.


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