apfhex said:
......because it's guaranteed to work. Sometimes you'd rather pay more for a guarantee instead of possibly (however unlikely) burning money on a cheaper product. I've been happy with the Crucial memory I've bought in the past and don't regret paying a little more. I haven't personally seen comparisons where their prices were "ABSURD" (something this thread has M I S E R A B L Y failed to accomplish), but I would be weary of a product so much cheaper (again, even if it's unlikely to be bad). 99% of the time you get what you pay for. It's just like buying cars.
Besides, almost anywhere is cheaper than buying RAM from Apple. 😀
(p.s. I didn't realize this was a 3 month old resurrected thread. oh well)
well, sorry to note that you cannot read, since in this very thread there are many many references to places that sell RAM for much less than Crucial. Crucial is riding an old wave and those of you who choose to pay much more on the false basis of "safety", just do so !!!
I am addressing only those who are smart enough to note that things have changed and 100s of dollars can be saved. Again, I am not for cheap stuff, never have been, but I am all for spending money wisely.
By the way, I have not checked prices currently, so things might have changed since.
WildCowboy said:
Of course, many of the cheaper places like OWC and DMS also guarantee their RAM to work in Macs.
Between their uncompetitive prices and shady pricing games, I'm shocked that anyone buys from Crucial anymore...
oh ! here's an example of those smart people, they are indeed around
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ksz said:
I have never purchased memory from Crucial for the same reasons as the OP: it is overpriced. It may not be as bad as the price charged by Apple, but it's still higher significantly than prices of perfectly good memory from other manufacturers and other retailers. I also don't mind that the OP asked us to do a search for ourselves. It takes only 10 seconds to run the search on a comparative shopping site.
Finally, I also don't care that the memory I bought for a family member's iMac was not specifically guaranteed to work with Macs. Memory modules are built and tested against published specifications. As long as Apple adheres to those specifications, you should be able to buy memory from any vendor. If for whatever reason a non-specifically-guaranteed memory module fails to work on a Mac, I will just return it.
Memory is a commodity item.
beautifully put.
f1sh3r said:
the wise person would get the best of both worlds. hit up newegg.com and get the crucial alternate sku memory for much less (100 bucks for my powerbook). exact same QUALITY memory, cheaper price. people pay more for crucial because 1) it works. i've never had a problem with crucial ram and i've bought for some obscure systems before (regardless of what someone might say, ram is not always ram in some cases with some system boards) and 2) because if you ever have problems crucial has GREAT customer service. my pc has mushkin in it because the board is very easy on ram, but i read so many horror stories about putting memory into the g4 powerbook i didn't feel like screwing around with generic stuff and went straight to crucial (in this case via newegg).
great points.
And let me just stress, my point, originally, was not about buying cheap RAM, or advise people poorly. To the contrary ! My advise was only to stay away from Crucial because ...."their prices are absurd".
by the way guys, I cannot believe that my iMac has not crashed once, I mean not once ! This, apart from the memory thing, is quite a change from my FW800 dual PM !!! Well, great great computer Apple !!! Now I need a new laptop
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