Ram is Cheap

[barn32]

I just bought two gigs of ram for my laptop for $50. $25 per gig. That's pretty cheap, isn't it? At Best Buy it's $60.

I have to take out the two 512 sticks that are already in there and replace them with the two 1G sticks, which seems like a waste, but that's the only way to get it done.

Memory upgrades, flash media, and usb storage at Crucial.com (http://www.crucial.com/)

[dutchboy]

Anyone have an idea what the same would have cost 10-15 years ago?

[robert99]

Anyone have an idea what the same would have cost 10-15 years ago?

I can vaguely remember buying two 4Mb sticks for £45 ($85)

[dutchboy]

I found an article about the Apple 2 released in 1977 with 4KB of ram cost 1298.00.

Upgrade to 48KB of ram and the price goes to 2698.00

[barn32]

Anyone have an idea what the same would have cost 10-15 years ago?My first computer (1995-1997) was a 33mhz with a 1.2 gig hard drive, and 16 megs of ram. I upgraded to 48 megs of ram for $75. (Things were much faster after that too.)

Bill Gates was once quoted as saying that you would never need more than 8 megs of ram.