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A DIMM Future for RAM Bundles
VeggiePossum23 writes "PC WORLD has an article about rising concerns that computer manufacturers will be cutting the amount of bundled RAM they sell with their PCs owing to rising prices of dynamic memory. The article claims that spot pricing shows a rise of almost $15.00 for 256MB modules of DDR DRAM in some markets. According to a Reuters article on ZDNet, the price rises are caused by shortage of memory chips, and this is causing the prices of memory to raise at the fastest rate in four years. Even Intel is said to be worried at the overall trend of price hikes for all types of memory. The Inquirer has a similiar article from a couple of weeks ago which includes a chart showing how the third-party memory manufacturers are doing. Kingston tops the chart for revenue."
Let's see... it's a false silicon shortage created for the purpose of invading... um... no, wait: Bush's Saudi oil-family buddies are artificially driving production down, resulting in a... er, wait, how about this one: it's a Pentagon ploy to reduce civilian computing power and prevent blogs from getting the truth out about the phony oil war.
That'll do. Another Slashdot truth is created.
You mean that they are again artificially forcing up the price of RAM?
RAM prices are like oil prices, they have nothing to do with supply and demand but instead, are controlled by some secret or not so secret cartel.
Ewe shouldn't make baad ram jokes, they make others feel sheepish.
i have a memory doubler. it actually expands your memory to 4 gigs per process no matter how much memory you have. unfortunately it does grind the machine to a halt. this product can be found here
Chinese countries
So, who would that be? China and . . . China?
The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer. - Albert Einstein
No problem. I still have the 8MB from my old 486DX66. I'll just sell it and buy another 514MB for my current machine. It must qualify as a collectible antique by now, no?
How else are you going to fit a flight simulator in?
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Now Bush is going to want to drill in Nevada for DRAM!?
Won't someone please think of the scorpions!
We need to break this country of it's dependence on foreign DRAM once and for all.
Life is too short to proofread.
Ooohh there's a new shotgun!?
Yes I'm kidding.
You have obviously never run any Java applications. Here's how to use up the first 128 MB:
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