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  3. February 2008

Re: Memory prices

Joe Pluta wrote:
I just find it astounding that PC memory has simply plummeted in price. You can now get 4GB of DDR2 memory for $89. And that's relatively fast memory - 800MHz. Usually you can tweak that up a little bit and end up with some really screaming numbers (I used 800MHz memory and overclocked my machine to 3GHz on the CPU and 900MHz on the memory, and it's just.. fast, man, really fast <grin>).

Yeah, and I bought a few Lexar USB jump-drives a few years ago and have them in the office, at home, various convenient locations. (They were cheap. But they keep working.) And I carry a 2GB chip in my business-card holder wherever I go; used to be a diskette when they got down to shirt-pocket size. Can't recall my last use of a diskette.

Sure beats boxes of punch-cards, eh?

As for memory, the big problem I keep having is that my pile of old memory SIMMs/DIMMs keeps growing. I hate not having a use for them. Almost makes me irritated that new ones are so cheap.

Tom Liotta

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