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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (130439)	1/7/2001 10:43:37 PM
From: stribe30	Respond to of 1573818

Reasons AMD wont need to worry about the P-IV in Canada. Cost.. esp. from RDRAM. Canada doesnt appear to be its going to be a P-IV or Rambus friendly site (not that its that big of a market) I just checked out Netlink Computers in Vancouver (www.ncix.com) for memory prices.. it is listing RAMBUS ECC 128MB RDRAM for 944$ CDN. (630 US) Regular PC133 SDRAM 128mb? 73$ Cdn..(48 US) Micron 128 PC133? 88$ Cdn. (58US) Corsair? a little more expensive.. but 168$ CDN.(112 US - basically 1$ Cdn = 67 cents US) JC suggested (facetiously I think) that perhaps its really popular and demand is way outstripping supply.. but I doubt it;) that site doesnt even have a P-IV for sale... its main system on the front page its pushing is the 1 gig Athlon "Super Station" for 2230$ Cdn. (approx 1488 US) I checked elsewhere - Onvia.com in Canada is selling 128MB of SDRAM PC-100 for about 118$ Cdn.. 128MB of RDRAM from Kingston is a more reasonable but still expensive 497. Insight.com - Cdn division? they list RAM modules for different brands.. a 64 MB RDRAM module for a Compaq costs a whopping 440$ Cdn. 128 megs? yours for only 818 Cdn. HP is even worse... 844 for 128MB RAM. IBM is slightly better.. a bargain at 518 CDN for 128 MB RDRAM. Again, Kingston's RDRAM module is slightly less then most.. it came in around 547 Cdn. In Canada at least. RDRAM prices have not come down to even make them a consideration even if they were as fast as RMBS's marketing dept claimed. No wonder RMBS wants to get royalties on SDRAM - I cant see how they are making any money with prices like that .. hardly anyone probably is buying them.