Comments on: Apple ships world’s most expensive RAM

By: Eamon Walshe

Eamon Walshe — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:33:20 +0000

You cannot just multiply the cost of 2GB modules by 2 and expect to arrive at a ballpark price for 4GB modules.

Fast, DDR3, high capacity modules are newish and expensive, regardless of where you buy them.

Stop grumbling and just buy the 17″ model with 4GB. Upgrade it to 8GB in six months when 4GB, DDR3 modules are a commodity.

By: James

James — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:01:46 +0000

hmmmmm. I cant help thinking that if this was microsoft being discussed there would be riots in the streets and lawsuits in abundance.

By: Matthew Hall

Matthew Hall — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:48:45 +0000

//snigger//

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:04:09 +0000

The “near identical 2 x 4GB 1066MHz DDR3 kit” that Crucial is selling for £469 wouldn’t work very well once you’d sawn the 240-pin DIMM in half in order to fit it in the Macbook Pro’s 204-pin SODIMM socket. Better to buy the proper 204-pin parts from Crucial’s US site for $1180, a full $20 less than Apple charge.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:18:29 +0000

http://www.linux-laptop.net/

http://mcelrath.org/laptops.html

http://www.linux.org/hardware/laptop.html

That is your reliable alternative, which more and more people are taking every day.

By: illegal alien

illegal alien — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:25:37 +0000

I asked about an extra 2 GB of ram when I ordered my Mac Pro, and they quoted me a price somewhere in the region of £300.
I went on the Kingston website and identicallly specified ram was about £70.
As we wanted to rent our mac, we naturally went first to Apple.
We were led up and down the garden path with demands for copies of our passports, driving licences, and full accounts details all of which took about two weeks.
We didn’t give them our accounts details, and when we looked at the microscopically small print on the contract we were supposed to sign, there was a statement that said something like, ‘A further fee of £90 will be charged for administration and paperwork etc’.
The price they quoted us for the rental didn’t even include VAT, so that would have been even more expensive than we originally thought.
So in the end we went to another computer supplier.
We got the Mac within two days, and all they asked for, was our address and payment details.
And I still can’t recieve emails on it, and every number for support is a premium rate number.
Apple make good computers, but in my opinion, they’re one of the scummiest penny pinching liars in the business.
If there was a reliable alternative I’d go for it yesterday.
Caveat emptor.

By: Stuart Learmonth

Stuart Learmonth — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:13:35 +0000

congratulations Rob McAuley, you win todays award for “knows the price of everything and the value of nothing”

By: mark gason

mark gason — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:47:45 +0000

A level math?
maybe you should buy a calculator!

On a straight price comparison 8gig kit (2×4) from crucial is 469, thats roughly 234.50 for 4 gig (roughly because a single 4 gig may cost more than half the kit)

Apple 4gig upgrade is 839.99, subtract 234.50 and you get a price difference of 605.49!!!!!

OK well if you buy the crucial memory you will probably have to remove the 4gig from apple and sell it, so that does cost 370 more

By: Alex Bowden

Alex Bowden — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:41:14 +0000

Perhaps you should tone down the title,

“Apple ships world?s most expensive RAM”

If you want to stay out of court, because it is a) simply untrue and b) highly damaging.

Sounds expensive to me.

By: David Bayon

David Bayon — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:01:21 +0000

3.5GB is around the limit for 32-bit Windows, and the graphics card will take whatever it needs from that maximum.