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Prabz

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So, come December I'm definitely buying an Al Powerbook 1.25Ghz, Christmas sale or no Christmas sale😛

I intend to upgrade it to 1GB of RAM; and after doing an extensive search on macrumors I found out that it is prudent to buy the *least* amount of RAM from Apple and then upgrading it with RAM bought from online retailerz like Crucial or DealRAM. However, I found hardly any difference in price when I last checked at these sites; i.e.,
1 GB DDR PC2700 for ±$320.

By the way, I'm comparing this price with Apple's ADC student discount, which I'm entitled to.
So, does this mean I'm good whether or not I have it upgraded through Apple?

Forgive me, but I'm absolutely new to the RAM scenario. Heck, it took me a while to figure out that what Apple refers to as "DDR333 SDRAM" is the same as "DDR PC2700" and that "PC" had nothing to do with Windows "PC" 😱. I've yet to find out, though, WTF "SO-DIMMs" or "184-pin DIMM" mean!!

Thanks gang!
Prabz
 
Many people have found RAM for the new PowerBooks to be about the same price as retail... I would say go ahead and buy it from Apple at this point.
 
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