[Ti] 1Ghz Titanium Ram

[Kynan Shook]

I bet it would work, but I'd never subject my wonderful Mac to the 
awful RAM that comes out of those two companies.  In all fairness, I 
have no direct experience with MemoryX, but I can tell you that 
1-800-4-Memory will sell you the worst memory that exists on the 
market.  While it's possible you'd have no problems, I have seen so 
many computers end up with hard drives that are nearly unreadable 
because the user put in el-cheapo memory, which over time causes data 
corruption in their documents and in the directory structure...  Until 
one day, the corruption is so bad that the computer can't boot any 
more.

Unfortunately, there is no way to definitively test memory.  Even the 
manufacturer can't fully test a memory chip once it has been packaged - 
true testing has to be done on the bare silicon.  A hardware memory 
tester (a small device that serves no purpose other than testing RAM, 
and costs several thousand dollars) can catch much defective memory.  A 
"hardware test" that runs in software, such as Apple Hardware Test or 
TechTool Pro, will catch only the most egregiously failing memory; I'd 
estimate around 5% of actual bad RAM.

So, in my professional opinion, it's better to stick to manufacturers 
with a better reputation.  Micron and Samsung are among the best 
component manufacturers.  Most of what Crucial sells is Micron (since 
it is actually a division of Micron).  Samsung is available, but I'm 
not sure from who - and even then, you might get a poorly designed PCB, 
even though the memory chips themselves are high quality.  Identifying 
the very worst of RAM chips is easy - they often are lacking either a 
manufacturer name or a part number printed on each chip.  A few other 
manufacturers are somewhere in between great and awful - Hynix, for 
example, at least in my experience.

Soooo...  Moral of the story: just because you *can* doesn't mean you 
*should.*  Wait until some more reputable manufacturers make 1 GB 
SO-DIMMs.  And never buy RAM from the place that's selling it for the 
least dough!

John Belen <imacdude at mac.com> writes:
> I was just playing around on Ramseeker.com and found 2 companies that
> appear to be supplying 1Ghz Ram Chips for the 1Ghz Titanium Powerbooks
> that take the PC133 Ram.  Of course Apple officially sets the Ram
> limitations at 1Gig, but was that because noone sold RAM in a
> configuration, at the time, that would allow more than that?  Has
> anyone tried to put 2 of the 1Gig ram chips in a Titanium yet?  I'd be
> curious to know.  Thanks.