Why is this old RAM so fucking expensive? I need a 512 MB module of this and nobody is selling it for less than $40.
Why is this old RAM so fucking expensive? I need a 512 MB module of this and nobody is selling it for less than $40
Kayden Lewis
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Dylan Reed
The free market will fix it
Christopher Lopez
DDR2... yep now that.. that my friend, was some good RAM.. man those were the days, those were the days!
Adrian Baker
Old RAM doesn't go down sharply in price the way other old parts do, this is because you typically need a particular type matched to the machine you're upgrading so you can't just swap out an old RAM stick for a brand new one from Best Buy like you can with a 10-year-old SATA hard drive; the only alternative to used/refurb parts is old-new stock and the supply won't increase anytime soon
Hudson Cook
I would imagine that it's no longer being manufactured and that the price has something to do with the finite supply and however much demand there still is.
Protip: No demand could lead to a higher price as well. Make up for low volume by charging more so that when it DOES sell it makes up for the infrequent nature of the sales in general.
Thomas Wright
>Protip: No demand could lead to a higher price as well.
This is the other thing people forget often, there is very little demand for something like an old reel-to-reel film projector but the supply is scarce and only getting scarcer and if a seller can't profit on volume then they'll try to profit on margin
Brandon Hughes
Zachary Flores
theres no difference between old ibook ram and normal ram, so you're just fucking retarded for searching 'apple ibook g3 ram' instead of just '512mb pc100' so you deserve to get fucked by those jews and their overpriced listings, die in a hole faggot.
thats ddr, your post just reveals your zoomer autism and you trying to roleplay like a massive cock sucking faggot.
Dominic Howard
Have same problem, have pretty much rare 8gb ddr3 ram, so i have either to pay 50 more usd for dual mode or just fuck off.
I don't want to switch to ddr4, hope i will long enough for ddr5.
Gabriel Edwards
>how to troll a gen x hard
Josiah Ross
Don't look for iBook memory you dumdum. It's a standard PC100 or PC133 SDRAM SO-DIMM. Also, couldn't you just wait until Monday to call the store?
>thats ddr
It's SDRAM, DDR modules have the notch way closer to the edge.
Andrew Reed
Buy an old computer with the hardware you need. Now you have spare parts for everything, and you only paid $10-$40
Aiden Lee
Those are boomers selling antiques at high prices hoping someone is desperate enough to buy them.
Colton Lee
>apple
there's your problem
Jordan Turner
>I'm not stupid I was just trolling.
How typical
Levi Hernandez
No, I'm a fucking retard. Where did you get that assumption..?
Sebastian Young
That's SDRAM dumb zoomer
DDR2 on common capacities it's pretty cheap
In the SDRAM era sticks with more than 128 MB were highish end, even more so in SODIMM
And you're looking at overpriced sellers too
Dominic Sullivan
That's just random old parts in general. I was looking for some old PSUs and they were asking hundreds.
Robert Murphy
And you ain't seen shit. The best examples of old parts being expensive are aftermarket Mac CPU upgrades. They never go for under $200. If they also happen to fit an SE/30 or an Amiga, expect them to go for upwards of $600.
Landon Jenkins
shut up incel
Anthony Smith
Ethan Wright
Ian Clark
>brand new
you're fucking retarded. obviously it's not going down in price since they stopped manufacturing it years ago. just get used sticks
Ryder Anderson
that's not how you do it
Ayden Cox
The Chinese still make tons of old RAM, SDRAM, DDR, and DDR2 is still widely available new and cheap
OPs problem is he was looking for iBook RAM instead of just SDRAM which is cheap even new