RAM price drops?

This may only be for Kingston HyperX DDR3 sodimm, but the prices have been cut in half on newegg and amazon. I haven't seen any articles that explain what is going on (perhaps it is normal?). I know some resellers here advertize that they use this brand in their laptops, so this change could potentially drop the price of new laptops one hundred or so US dollars (assuming you upgrade the ram). Does anybody have insight into what is going on?

 

I can't check it out at the moment, because my old computer is feeling like visiting newegg is not a good idea now, but I'm going to assume that you mean the price of 2x4GB has dropped from $40 to $20. If so, what's going on is quite simple: RAM is getting cheaper. It always has been, sometimes in small increments, sometimes in large jumps like this one. If 2x4GB is $40, then that's nothing new; it's been that way for half a year.

 

Cut in half? The prices look normal to me.

 

I think most 2x 4gb ddr3 has been lingering at normal price of $40 since last year i believe. Often it drops down when there's a sale, but it goes back to $40 when it's over. Desktop and laptop RAMs are priced pretty close to each other.

 

Oh thanks guys, that's what I thought he meant, but I couldn't check. Yes, that's a perfectly normal price for RAM. If you need it cheaper, wait for a shell shocker on newegg or find some used ram on NBR marketplace. To be honest, the current price is just fine, though.

 

No, it doesn't. At least for the DDR2 memory.
In fact, from what it seems like an ugly international price fixing, all 2x4GB DDR2 memories went straight up to an almost +60% price increase. In 2002 the big 5 memory manufacturers were investigated and 4 of them convicted for the same reason after complaints from Dell and Gateway. I doubt this will happen now since this measure looks mostly like a wallet twisting of people with older laptops to jump into lowering the soon to be obsolete SB stock.