[G4] Buying RAM

[Ronald Steinke]

On 13 Nov, 2007, at 22:07, Kathi Anderson wrote:

>
>> Does it seems to fit the bill? The vendor is being cagey;  I think
>> they'd rather sell me their higher priced "Apple Certified RAM", or
>> am I too cynical?
>
> I have bought ram for PCs and Macs over several generations of  
> machines, and
> the best is Crucial. They do a terrific job of helping you pick the  
> right
> ram, and even do an online diagnosis to check your machine.
> Kathi

I always use Data Memory Systems (www.datamem.com) for my RAM  
purchases. They have two guarantees for their products, one-year and  
life-time, with two prices of course.

My latest experience was to receive two exchanges of chips that did  
not fit physically into the RAM space in a Dell laptop. Data Memory  
sent two sets of exchange chips without any extra shipping charges  
and provided RMA shipping labels in the packaging.

It turned out that Dell used three different physical sizes of RAM  
chips in the Latitude C80 laptops over a two year production run.  
Each later model had a shorter chip than the model before it, but  
Dell never changed the model number and the manufacture date had to  
be checked to determine the correct chip size for that particular  
laptop. Result - a three week delay in upgrading the RAM in that  
machine.