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Today it is cheap.
It used to cost $35.00 a MB in the 80's. In those days programs required a lot less to work, but they didn't do a lot of what we like computers for today. At that price 250 MB would cost $8,750.00
But in today’s pricing what some others say is correct. It will drop in price when new faster and larger RAM is wanted and supplied.
Still you can get great deals on ebay, and other sites.
Try:
www.ebay.com
www.weirdstuff.com
www.overstock.com
www.geeks.com
Good Luck

2006-08-15 21:47:28 · answer #1 · answered by Spark 2 · 0 0

RAM, the never ending race for more....
The general rule of RAM is as soon as the next class of chip sets arrive, the current class drop in price as to dump stock followed closely by limited availability when manufactures stop making the previous class and the stock becomes depleted price go back up based on this availability until the class is rendered obsolete, then they are then rendered useless.
Then there is what I call the OS factor. Everytime Microsoft releases a new version of any of it's operating systems. Be it XP, Windows Server or any of it's other packages that rely on processing speed. Price of RAM jumps as the demand grows for upgrades to these new operating systems. When Vista became available as Beta release, demand grew for RAM because of higher requirements needed to run the OS. Prices for RAM rose after the beta released and now have leveled off and in some cases have dropped since Microsoft has announced that Vista will not release to the consumer until first quarter of 2007. However, Microsoft has announced since then that that they will be releasing a corparate version of the Vista Platform in November. This will drive the price of RAM up again as corparations start to plans to upgrade their network workstations as needed.

So with that said, I would think right now your going to find the best prices right now until the begining of October. This is when most companies start fisical years and start releasing funds to help fund internal operations including hardware upgrades. Then the rules of supply and demand kick in and prices begin to rise again.

2006-08-16 03:21:08 · answer #2 · answered by Shuxs 3 · 0 0

RAM costs don't have a steady decrease. You can, however, try shopping right after a new RAM technology is released to get the older technology for less.

2006-08-16 03:22:34 · answer #3 · answered by c90 4 · 0 0

RAM Cost is very volatile. Its cost goes up and down.
When it will be low, no one can tell. Its like looking at stock market. - No one knows when a share raises and falls.

2006-08-16 02:43:41 · answer #4 · answered by Indian_Male 4 · 0 0

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