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    Newegg.com Deal -- 8GB of RAM for 55 dollars

    Discussion in 'Notebook and Tech Bargains' started by Hungry Man, Apr 30, 2011.

  1. Hungry Man

    Hungry Man Notebook Virtuoso

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    Hungry Man, Apr 30, 2011
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  2. talin

    talin Notebook Prophet

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    Shouldn't this go into Notebook and Tech Bargains? :p
     
    talin, Apr 30, 2011
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  3. Hungry Man

    Hungry Man Notebook Virtuoso

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    Oh I'm sorry. I really only post in 3 of them and I don't even look at the others haha if a mod would move this or if it's already been posted there please delete it.

    >.< Whoops!
     
    Hungry Man, Apr 30, 2011
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    with a price like this, should we put any future questions(and arguments) like should I upgrade to 8GB to rest ?
     
    chimpanzee, Apr 30, 2011
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  5. Hungry Man

    Hungry Man Notebook Virtuoso

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    Honestly, 50 dollars is such an insanely low price... if you're considering an upgrade it should be a no brainer. You can't really upgrade anything in your laptop for 50 dollars: any high class HDD's will be 80-100 and SSD's are all going to be more, even the smallest ones will come near 50.

    Bare in mind that this is with mail in rebate but still, I'd love to see this be a trend.
     
    Hungry Man, Apr 30, 2011
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  6. tilleroftheearth

    tilleroftheearth Wisdom listens quietly...

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    Yeah, in late 2009 $400 for 8GB DDR2 RAM was 'an insanely low price'. At least it was worth the ~60% performance improvement I got for my usage pattern.

    For $55 today (and DDR3 at that...) it should be illegal to sell a notebook with less than 8GB RAM.

    I still contend that SNB is more stable/faster/'comfortable' with Win7x64 and 16GB RAM (haven't had the chance to try 32GB yet).
     
    tilleroftheearth, Apr 30, 2011
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  7. Hungry Man

    Hungry Man Notebook Virtuoso

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    I'd prefer to have 16GB of RAM and part of me is holding out for it drop substantially.
     
    Hungry Man, Apr 30, 2011
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    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    Well you can...if you want to pay 4400 for 2 x 8 GB sticks.

    This again shows we should all just have 8 GB standard. :rolleyes:
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Apr 30, 2011
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  9. Hungry Man

    Hungry Man Notebook Virtuoso

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    It's more like 1,200 for 2 8GB sticks I believe. 600 a piece.

    I'll probably buy 8GB of RAM 4x2 in July.
     
    Hungry Man, Apr 30, 2011
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    I grabbed this deal, hopefully the re-bait doesn't fail like a lot have lately.

    Its practically a crime you can get a good brand for this price but all the OEMs charge far more to upgrade built to order laptops.
     
    Aluminum, Apr 30, 2011
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    Or if you have a machine with for slots... I have 16GB on my desktop :) Although even then 8GB chips are not all that bad looking at server memory (future plans) its like $200-250 for an 8GB chip.
     
    ewitte12, Apr 30, 2011
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  12. Hungry Man

    Hungry Man Notebook Virtuoso

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    last i checked it was 6-800 per chip.

    And yeah, I wish I had 4 slots. I'd have 16GB right now for sure.
     
    Hungry Man, Apr 30, 2011
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    garetjax NBR Freelance Reviewer NBR Reviewer

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    Looks like it's dead. :(
     
    garetjax, May 2, 2011
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    Its now showing 79.99
     
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