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To: Scumbria who wrote (63714)	1/5/2001 12:26:23 AM
From: Dave B	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 93625

Scumbria I paid $77 for 128MB Crucial DDR today. How does that compare with RDRAM? I don't know. I don't buy memory sticks that small. <G> Dave p.s. Just so you don't think I'm a Micron bigot, when I added 256M to my system, I bought it from Crucial. They impressed the dickens out of me when I was trying to upgrade my 1996 "cutting-edge" Gateway SDRAM-based system that turned out to not use the SDRAM standard. They sent me 3 DIMMs at their own expense before they finally figured out that the Gateway system was "unique". Incidentally, I was trying to add 32M to the 32M that was already in their (this was in 1998). The 32M from Crucial was roughly $200. From Gateway, it was $300. I just added 256M to my current system for $180 from Crucial. This is why I don't agree with Carl's "buy your system with all the memory you'll ever need" philosophy. I don't know what I'll need until the software comes along that uses it. And if I buy it now, it'll probably cost me 5X more than it'll cost me in two years (based on the above example).