Crucial memory price jump?

[bluebomberman]

I'm a little ticked off. The day Tiger was announced, 512 MB RAM cost about $53 for the iMac G5. But they won't ship to my business address (they only ship to billing addresses, but of course I can't receive the package because I'm at work), so I got cold feet.

Today, I check and see that the price went all the way up to $61.79! Grr.

Tiger must've caused a spike in sales.

 

[AppleAce]

I'm a little ticked off. The day Tiger was announced, 512 MB RAM cost about $53 for the iMac G5. But they won't ship to my business address (they only ship to billing addresses, but of course I can't receive the package because I'm at work), so I got cold feet.

Today, I check and see that the price went all the way up to $61.79! Grr.

Tiger must've caused a spike in sales.

Just FYI, in case you didn't already know, Crucial uses dynamic pricing, so it's a good idea to clear out your cookies from there when checking, or check the price with another browser also.
In this case, however, I'm showing that a 512 MB stick for an iMac G5 costs $61.79 also, so it wasn't the dynamic pricing that was responsible for the price increase.

 

[SpaceMagic]

boll..ks! It was at an all time low of £34 today its gone up to £37! grr!

 

[Logik]

i never order from crucial... www.newegg.com

 

[mattraehl]

Crucial's prices can change daily. While considering buying a 1GB stick for my iBook, I watched the prices fall gradually from like $350 down to $290 over the course of a few weeks. After buying, the price went up past $300 again. Now it's down to $360 something. Just wait, and the price will go back down again eventually.

 

[bluebomberman]

Dynamic pricing...wow. That's neat, albeit frustrating. There should be a Dashboard widget to check the price...

logik, I'm looking at newegg.com , but I don't see 512 MB memory for the iMac G5. I must be screwing up somewhere; where do I look?

Thanks to everybody for their help.

 

[Logik]

Dynamic pricing...wow. That's neat, albeit frustrating. There should be a Dashboard widget to check the price...

logik, I'm looking at newegg.com , but I don't see 512 MB memory for the iMac G5. I must be screwing up somewhere; where do I look?

Thanks to everybody for their help.

it would be any PC3200 ram

So, on the main page, click Memory on the left hand side

then select 184-pin DDR DIMM, PC3200, and 512mb

search..

i've had good luck with Corsair Value Select in my PowerBook. $44 or so for that.. + shipping.. still about $50

 

[bluebomberman]

"Crucial 184 Pin 512MB DDR PC-3200 8T - OEM"

Price: $48.67 + $4.33 shipping

I think this is it. Of course, Newegg has to confuse me by selling two models! There's also a "Crucial 184 Pin 512MB DDR PC-3200 - OEM" that has the same model number minus the 8T at the end. (The photo actually has 16T at the end of the model number). It costs exactly $60. The crucial website makes no mention of the 8T model...

It took some serious web searching to find out what the difference is. Apparently, the 8T model is single-sided, while the 16T is double-sided. Supposedly, the 8T model is better for overclocking. No one seems to know what happens when you mix a single-sided RAM chip with a double-sided RAM chip (despite a few people asking).

My head hurts. I'm going to hit the sack.