> A couple of reliable sources : > > http://www.macsales.com > http://www.ramjet.com/ > http://www.macmemory.com > > How this works : RAM is a commodity but even commodities have > gradations. When you make a million of anything there are some > percentage that fit into the original specification within a very > tight tolerance. Those "best of the best" go for a premium price and > the premium vendors ( like Apple ) buy them. The next tier is not as > reliable / fast / whatever and they go to the the vendors that are > selling discount hardware at appropriately lower prices ( Bobs corner > computer store - or maybe Dell ;-) ) . A third tier is worse yet and > perhaps goes for real cheap on ebay. A last tier goes to the > dumpster - if the last tier is routinely a large percentage of the > total production then the manufacturer goes to the dumpster > eventually. Sticking with known vendors like the ones listed above > is likely to get you parts that are at or near that top tier without > paying the enormous markup that Apple is applying to the very same > RAM chips that you are buying from these vendors.
Crucial makes their own memory, which is Micron, the parent company. I've bought it for desktops, laptops and servers. I should have kept track of just how much I've bought from Crucial over the years, but it's probably somewhere north of 500 GB. I've only had problems once, which they exchanged with no grief. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
