Mac hardware

Posted by: Jay on 19 August 2005

Hi team

Where's the best place to get Apple RAM? My Powerbook neeeeeeds more than the 512mb. Apple store quotes me 360 quid for a gig! I don't think so.

Cheers
Jay
Posted on: 19 August 2005 by JonR
Jay,

Try

http://www.crucial.com/uk/

Cheers,

Jon
Posted on: 19 August 2005 by Jay
Thanks Jon. I think you just saved me 200 quid!
Posted on: 19 August 2005 by JonR
Jay,

Most welcome! I bought some extra memory for my iBook from there too Smile

Cheers,

Jon
Posted on: 21 August 2005 by Top Cat
ANother thumbs up for Crucial. If you feed your system's details in, it's guaranteed to work, which is a bonus.

Bought a couple of gig chips for my G5 recently and saved a packet (£140 for 2x1Gb, as opposed to ~£400 for 'Apple supplied & fitted RAM')

John
Posted on: 22 August 2005 by Guido Fawkes
Jay

I always use Crucial for my memory chips - I have a Powerbook and PowerMac at home and we have lots of eMacs, iMacs and PowerMacs at work (Windoze free zone). Even Apple support has stopped asking the once obligatory "Are you using third party memory?" before answering my queries - so it is very much the accepted practice. Crucial has always delivered next day in my experience.

You'll notice a jump from 500 MB to 1 GB makes a significant difference to the computer's performance with OSX - the OS really likes memory.

The Powerbook is easier to fit memory into than an iBook - sure the iBook is easy, but refitting the keyboard afterwards and getting it to sit flat is something I found a challenge (not that I'm very handy in any case). Let us know how you get on.

Rotf
Posted on: 22 August 2005 by Jay
Thanks for your advice guys. Agree that RAM is pretty "crucial". See what I did there Winker