FYI - 4GB notebook RAM sticks have gone down in price

Thought this would be useful to anyone shopping. Used to be you could only get them for $600 apiece, so 8 gigs cost you $1200 and up. (Main reason I bought M6400 - four RAM slots = only need 2GB sticks!) I just saw 8GB packs of 2x4GB, in the $700 range, which would be an almost 50% price reduction.

Still waiting on the 500GB 7200rpm drives...

 

Hmm....I remember G.Skill's 4GB modules being around $200-250 since the last 2 months or so....

 

The last I'd seen, there was only one manufacturer you could get a 4GB stick from, and it was Crucial and they cost $650 each. That was when I was placing my first M6400 order though, back in August...

For me, because 8GB RAM is a requirement, it means I can buy from Lenovo and HP whereas before I could not! (HP still wants $1200 for the 8GB RAM upgrade. But I can buy it myself now.) Lenovo doesn't even offer it.

 

Back in September, the G.Skill 4GB DDR2 was available for $170 on newegg with $30 MIR.

4GB DDR3 (Elpida, Micron and Nanya modules) has been expensive for a while now, and OEM modules are available for around $300 from not-so-well-known sellers. There was a thread on this in the Lenovo forum.

 

Are we both talking about notebook RAM? Because I think you're talking about desktop RAM.

 

Why would I talk about desktop memory on a notebook forum ?

Yes, I am talking about SODIMMs.

EDIT: 8GB for 700bux is a good price (Its got to be OEM). I initially thought you were talking about DDR2, but M6400 and DDR2 doesn't compute.

 

Yeah I found out after posting the M6400 is DDR3 which surprised me... Other manufacturers are DDR2. I can't find 4GB DDR3 SODIMMs at all, at least not in my brief searching. I couldn't imagine they would be less expensive than DDR2 either, so I felt the need for a sanity check. (Also the prices matched what I was seeing for desktop RAM about 6 weeks ago.)

 

Ohh....So you were talking about DDR2 ?

Well, a 4GB DDR2 module from G.Skill is about $200 and from Crucial, I think it was $400 the last time I checked.

4GB DDR3 is around $500-600 Bulk, and min. order qty is usually around 10 modules. A single OEM is about $800 from Crucial and Nanya. I don't think they have gone Retail yet.

 

4GB DDR2 667 is available on New Egg from G.Skill, Kingston, and Crucial - while it is not the DDR2 800 from the M4400 and M6400 tech specs, the slightly lower bandwidth shouldn't make much of a difference. Here is the link: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...E&N=2010260381 1052910525 1309139889&name=4GB

 

For DDR3, like previously mentioned, The 4 slot M6400 is a blessing since 8gb is achievable relatively cheap.