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Best place to buy RAM? (UK)
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I would recommend:
http://www.crucial.com/uk/index.asp
They have an easy-to-use memory selector so you can pinpoint the specific RAM for your Mac and shipping is very fast, sometimes overnight.
I've never had any probs with them for the work and home Macs.
Edit: And they're a damned sight cheaper than Micro Anvika or the Apple Store.
http://www.crucial.com/uk/index.asp
They have an easy-to-use memory selector so you can pinpoint the specific RAM for your Mac and shipping is very fast, sometimes overnight.
I've never had any probs with them for the work and home Macs.
Edit: And they're a damned sight cheaper than Micro Anvika or the Apple Store.
I'll recommend Crucial as well. Like Blue Velvet, I've ordered quite a bit of RAM from them for various home and office Macs, and I've no complaints at all with the products or the service.
Bought mine at Expo from a Micro Anvika stall.
Works fine, got no problems with it.
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Works fine, got no problems with it.
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In general, I'd recommend Crucial and Kingston Memory. PQI is a budget manufacturer with good quality control. Some of their sticks are compatible with Apple Macs. I bought my 1GiB PQI RAM new from Ebay: laptop-memory-store and I'd recommend them (although Ebay does have higher risks).
As you are only looking for 512MiB, I'd suggest looking second-hand, there should be lots of people offering genuine Apple 512MiB sticks at very reasonable prices.
Slightly off-topic now, but you might also want to look at this thread over at 123macmini.com.
As you are only looking for 512MiB, I'd suggest looking second-hand, there should be lots of people offering genuine Apple 512MiB sticks at very reasonable prices.
Slightly off-topic now, but you might also want to look at this thread over at 123macmini.com.
wasimyaqoob said:If you live close to a Mac Store, just go and purchase it from there
£33.99 from Crucial
http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/MPa...SMD=iBook+(G4+1.42GHz,+14-inch)&WSPN=CT464097
£100.00 from Apple
http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObj...LQ29B/1.3.0.8.9.0.5.1.1.3.5.0.1.3.1.1.0?67,73
A no-brainer.
Just a quick question: what do your GiB and MiB mean? I can kind of understand the GIgaByte thing, but there's no 'i' in megabyte. And surely it's not short for MIllion Bytes because a megabyte has more than a million bytes...!?mdavey said:
Just curious!
PCMacUser said:
AFAIK it's the abbreviation used in a few languages other than English, I know I've seen it written in German.
I'll put another recommendation in for Crucial, I had a good experience with them.
wasimyaqoob said:If you live close to a Mac Store, just go and purchase it from there
you mean if
(a) you've got enough money to throw at silly priced RAM
and
(b) you're one of the three people lucky enough to live close enough to an Apple Store
then consider it...
PCMacUser said:
MB means a million bytes, GB means a Billion bytes. They are derived from SI units used in science. These are the measurements for hard disk drives.
MiB is short for Mebibyte, derived from Mebi meaning 2^20 (1024x1024).
GiB is short for Gibibyte, derived from Gibi meaning 2^30 (1024x1024x1024).
MiB and GiB (along with sisters such as TiB and KiB) are the correct unit multiples for describing RAM memory. Their use is strongly endorsed by many professional organizations including IEEE, IEE, IEC, BCS, NIST, CIPM.
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix