[Hardware] RAM question

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Myles Green wrote:
 On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 05:37, Tim Wunder wrote:
> > What's the difference between PNY's 256MB PC100 SODIMM memory for
> > $70 and Kingston's for $144?
> > Got a friend with a laptop (Dell Inspiron 3800, I think) that wants to add RAM
> > to it.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tim
>
> About $74 ?? Seriously though, it's a matter of choice really. Personally,
> I've always stuck with name-brand RAM and some brands are just better quality
> than others. I'm not familiar with the PNY name, so I'll defer to someone who
> is.

I've heard of PNY.  Just another mass-market memory vendor.  Quality is no
better or worse than Kingston, or Crucial,or any of the other commodity
memory vendors.  Unless you're looking for quality memory (ECC etc), it
really doesn't make much of a difference.

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