Buy memory from Apple, or Crucial?

[Jim Hill]

Troy wrote:

>Hi-
>
>I am about to purchase a powerbook. It comes with 512MG of memory,
>but I would like 1GB.

There is never a reason to buy RAM from Apple. They charge out the ass
and with the effort they've put into making their machines' RAM slots
accessible (save the iMac's upper slot) you should do it yourself.


Jim
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[Greg Weston]

In article <b579fd42.0307180734.590db531@posting.google.com >, Troy
<troy@morpheus.net> wrote:

> Hi-
>
> I am about to purchase a powerbook. It comes with 512MG of memory,
> but I would like 1GB. It's 300 bucks to add it in the "customise"
> section of apple.com. But I can buy a compatable 512MB stick from
> crucial.com for 100 bucks less. Any harm in doing this instead? Is
> there a reason to buy the more expensive stuff from Apple?

Buying RAM - or disk - from Apple is really only worthwhile if you get
some sort of comfort from having the machine delivered all set up by
the manufacturer. And there _are_ people who have such needs for
various reasons. If you're not among them, there's no reason to buy
more than the minimum from Apple.

G

[Chey]

In <b579fd42.0307210926.61de6f11@posting.google.com > Troy wrote:

> Sounds great! Thank you all very much...
>
> troy
>
>
> [email]bb.bb@gmx.net[/email] (Mystras) wrote in message news:<4930986f.0307191454.
> [email]641c9ead@posting.google.com[/email]>...

>> Try eBay too.
>> 1) Go to kingston web page put the apple code of RAM to find the
>> kingston eq. RAM. 2) Search on eBay for this. [email]troy@morpheus.net[/email] (
>> Troy) wrote in message news:<b579fd42.0307180734.590db531@posting.
>> google.com>...

>> > Hi-
>> >
>> > I am about to purchase a powerbook. It comes with 512MG of memory,
>> > but I would like 1GB. It's 300 bucks to add it in the "customise"
>> > section of apple.com. But I can buy a compatable 512MB stick from
>> > crucial.com for 100 bucks less. Any harm in doing this instead?
>> > Is there a reason to buy the more expensive stuff from Apple?
>> > Thanks! Troy

>

I purchased additional memory from Crucial for my iBook (700Mhz 14") and
my 2 month old PowerMac. I have had no problems and performance is great.
Then again I am a Mac newbie barely one year and two months old and this
is the first PowerMac I have ever used and owned. I do a fair amount of
video editing as a hobby. This machine takes it all stride with !Gb of
memory.