Re: RAM prices (was Re: it sure is quiet here, OR there is something amiss..!)

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From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Wed Sep 06 2000 - 12:52:52 EDT

Well, ok..
for now, until the old stock gets sold, i can sell 64meg EDO for $165..

Chris Schumann wrote:

> Some prices from Crucial.com's web site:
> 560/560E/560X/560Z 32MB:$89.99 64MB:$227.69 (ouch!)
> 600X 32MB:$47.69 64MB:$77.39 128MB:$149.39 256MB:$386.99
>
> How odd that the prices are so different.
>
> Crucial is owned by Micron and is a RAM OEM for many companies.
>
> I have purchased memory from them before (but not for a ThinkPad),
> and found their products and service to be very good.
>
> Chris
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Ross" <ross_at_math.hawaii.edu>
>
> > Well, there is definitely something amiss - I just checked prices for
> > the kind of EDO RAM that the 560
> > family (and many other Thinkpads) uses, and discovered that it is
> > selling for approximately twice what I
> > paid last time I bought a module. (The Viking 64meg module that I
> > bought for $120 around 2 years
> > ago is now well over $240.) If that isn't something amiss, I don't know
> > what is:-) I have a 'new'
> > 560X on its way - I guess it won't be upgraded to 96 meg after all...
> >
> > - David R. 

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Happy trails...

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