[Ti] RAM question?

[Kynan Shook]

For a savings of $50 on $300 (don't forget Crucial's shipping is free,  
compared to $6 for this "Omni" company), I'd say it's probably not  
worth it.  They certainly don't make their own chips, and I very much  
doubt they even make the PCB the chips are on.  The photo they show  
uses chips from Crucial, but I would bet you anything that photo isn't  
the actual product.  Several reasons: First, that "Omni Technologies"  
label is photoshopped on.  Judging by the layout of the chips and other  
SO-DIMMs I've seen, there should be a whole lot more of those tiny  
chips along the bottom where the logo appears (I forget whether those  
are resistors or something else, though).  Also, the green background  
behind it isn't quite the same color as the PCB.  Second reason that's  
not what they're selling: They advertise the chips as Ball Grid Array  
chips.  The chips pictured are NOT BGA; you can see the pins coming out  
the side (as opposed to out the bottom).
Anyway, if you're still inclined to buy from them, I'd say call them  
up, and ask them who they buy their chips from.  If they tell you  
multiple vendors, ask them which, or at least for a sampling of them.   
If they don't know, see if you can get pictures of the memory, or the  
part numbers printed on the chips.  That can't account for a crappy  
PCB, but if we can discover that the chips are from a reputable  
manufacturer, that's at least a start.

Da Pen <macstonelson at yahoo.com>
> Was just looking for parts for my wife's Ti500 on ebay
> and ran across this RAM manufacturer 'Omni
> Technologies' - anyone know anything about them?
>
> 1GB RAM MEMORY APPLE POWERBOOK TITANIUM G4 	Ebay Item
> number: 2787185245
>
> or
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? 
> ViewItem&item=2787185245&category=11151
>
> Thanks. Dave
>
> PS - Crucial is $296 for 1Gb RAM at the moment.