Comments on: Don’t get stiffed on the RAM, again http://gigaom.com/apple/dont-get-stiffed-on-the-ram-again/ Fri, 25 May 2012 23:16:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jasper Van Proeyen http://gigaom.com/apple/dont-get-stiffed-on-the-ram-again/#comment-309248 Thu, 12 Jan 2006 13:12:58 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2006/01/11/dont-get-stiffed-on-the-ram-again/#comment-309248 Just compare the prices of 16GB RAM (for the PM G5 Quad) between the Apple Store and Crucial!!!

You can buy a car of the difference! :-)

]]> By: Chris Holland http://gigaom.com/apple/dont-get-stiffed-on-the-ram-again/#comment-309247 Wed, 11 Jan 2006 18:54:58 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2006/01/11/dont-get-stiffed-on-the-ram-again/#comment-309247 i’ve found some good deals for powerbook ram on pricewatch.com, outpost.com, dealram.com, and more recently from Omni

I totally agree it definitely pays to shop around for RAM. Well worth the effort of looking-up the precise RAM chipset your Mac needs, and plugging it every online hardware marketplace you can get your paws off.

You’ve gotta be careful though. Months ago, i went thru 3 bad ram chips from Omni technologies as they were still working through known kinks and kept sending me bad chips. They eventually gave me a similarly priced chip from another vendor.

Depending on which RAM slot a bad chip lives, problems may occur sooner or later. If the chip lives on a slot that’s used first, you’ll see your system freeze, crap out during or shortly after booting. If your bad chip lives on a RAM slot that’s used later in the chain, you might not start seeing any problem until you start opening more applications and/or doing more memory-intensive stuff.

I drove myself batty last year with my first bad RAM chip which I hadn’t right-away recognized as a bad chip. My system was seemingly randomly misbehaving, applications would crash and/or quit on me after a while, i couldn’t understand what was going on. I even ran a diagnostic tool that supposedly probed my RAM but failed to recognized it as faulty.

But it was faulty.

Anyway, not the end of the world, when you mail-order RAM from vendors, you’ve just gotta be mindful that the chip they send you might be bad. Test your system right-away, open-up a bunch of applications, do memory-intensive stuff, and make sure everything is stable.

]]> By: Ben http://gigaom.com/apple/dont-get-stiffed-on-the-ram-again/#comment-309246 Wed, 11 Jan 2006 16:19:36 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2006/01/11/dont-get-stiffed-on-the-ram-again/#comment-309246 I generally shop for Apple OEM RAM at MemoryX.net, which has always had great, competitive prices on it so I don’t have to worry about incompatibilities nor break my wallet (though the latter would be hard to do). It’s a little slower to update with new models, but again, the prices are great.

]]> By: Inside Stretch http://gigaom.com/apple/dont-get-stiffed-on-the-ram-again/#comment-309245 Wed, 11 Jan 2006 15:39:04 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2006/01/11/dont-get-stiffed-on-the-ram-again/#comment-309245 [...] order a new computer from Apple, don’t opt to have them install the RAM. I made that mistake once, when I bought my iBook. The new MacBook f [...]

]]> By: dboy http://gigaom.com/apple/dont-get-stiffed-on-the-ram-again/#comment-309244 Wed, 11 Jan 2006 15:18:58 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2006/01/11/dont-get-stiffed-on-the-ram-again/#comment-309244 Yep, agree with last poster – Dell charge double and then some for memory upgrades. You could argue they’re margin is so small on the boxes that they can charge extra for these niceities but for Apple it doesn’t quite make same sense!?? Good advice though, shop around :)

]]> By: Dalle http://gigaom.com/apple/dont-get-stiffed-on-the-ram-again/#comment-309243 Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:21:46 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2006/01/11/dont-get-stiffed-on-the-ram-again/#comment-309243 This is not a Apple only thingie dell, fujitsu-siemens and others do the same thing.

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