[geeks] Mac memory falling in price

[Joshua Boyd]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 01:39:33PM -0600, Doug McLaren wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 01:46:50AM -0500, Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> 
> | A month ago I got 4GB of memory for my Mac Pro from OWC for $280.
> | 
> | The same memory is now $210.
> 
> PC memory is even cheaper ...
> 
> Look up 5200607 at frys.com -- DDR2 4GB PC6400 DUAL PATRIOT.  $90 for
> 2 2GB DDR2 DIMMS.  So I bought two sets, and now I have 8 GB of memory
> for $180 plus tax.
> 
>                 total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
>    Mem:       8201460    8122184      79276          0      30976    6984736
>    -/+ buffers/cache:    1106472    7094988
>    Swap:      2971944        212    2971732
> 
> frickin' crazy!  Still, since ECC only requires 12% more chips or so,
> I wish they could offer ECC versions for 12% more ...

How about comparing the FB-DIMMS that equivelent Xeon PCs require though.