On 14 Jan 2005, at 10:34 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
Darcy James Argue wrote:
So does OWC. Egghead has even better prices. But like I said, I'm extremely wary of generic cheap RAM, especially in a tiny little box like the Mac mini. It's going to get hot in there. Lots of places have better deals than Crucial, and everyone reputable has a "lifetime warranty," but I want the same RAM Apple uses (Crucial or Samsung, and Samsung is even more expensive).
Which is why you should have gone with Datamem. Lifetime Memory Replacement Guarantee. I believe OWC does that as well.
Eric, *everyone* has "lifetime memory replacement guarantee." I would not even consider ordering from somewhere that didn't. But I want RAM that I *won't* have to replace, ever.
You make my point for me below:
Datamem was very very good about replacing a bad ram chip for me, they shipped a new one out, and included a return UPS label. Excellent service.
Like I said, I got excellent service from OWC as well -- they did the same "cross-ship" deal. But given that I risk VOIDING MY WARRANTY every time I crack open the Mac mini (since the memory is not technically user-upgradeable), I want memory that is ***extremely*** unlikely to go bad in the first place, even when it's placed in a tiny enclosure that no doubt runs incredibly hot. That means reliable brand names like Crucial or Samsung, not the cheap generic RAM most places sell. Besides, Datamem's cheapest 1 GB PC2700 stick is only $20 less expensive than Crucial! If I were going to go cheap, I would go with Newegg, or 1-800-4-MEMORY.
I said this in my last post -- if it were easy to get at the RAM in a Mac mini, I would happily buy the cheapest RAM I could find that still had a lifetime replacement guarantee. But it's not, so I didn't.
- Darcy ----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY
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