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Ebay listing that made me chuckle

Those look to be the original Apple sticks with the substantial heat spreaders and those FBDIMMS run very hot. I bought aftermarket RAM for mine and tried to transfer the heatspreaders over as the paper-thin ones that came with mine were flimsy to say the least. The Apple ones didn't really fit as the chips were placed differently. I suppose if someone really wants the authenticity but paying substantially more than you would now for the whole Mac Pro doesn't really make sense.
 
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weckart said:
Those look to be the original Apple sticks with the substantial heat spreaders and those FBDIMMS run very hot. I bought aftermarket RAM for mine and tried to transfer the heatspreaders over as the paper-thin ones that came with mine were flimsy to say the least.
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It seems to be a contentious issue with many users divided over whether or not you need the large sinks. I'm running my Mac Pro with a mixture of RAM with large and small heatsinks and I've not experienced any problems. Fingers crossed that this continues when I switch over to a complete set of RAM with the thinner variety.

weckart said:
The Apple ones didn't really fit as the chips were placed differently. I suppose if someone really wants the authenticity but paying substantially more than you would now for the whole Mac Pro doesn't really make sense.
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Too true. My Mac Pro cost me £60. I wouldn't have paid that amount of money for the RAM in 2006 - and obviously I wouldn't pay that now. :)
 
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TheShortTimer said:
I wouldn't have paid that amount of money for the RAM in 2006 - and obviously I wouldn't pay that now. :)
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To be fair, you would probably have bitten off the seller's hand in 2006 for 32GB of Apple RAM at that price considering the Mac Pro was, what, £2500?

Per XLER8yourMac, the price of a 4GB FBDIMM was around $800, so RAM would potentially have cost more than your Mac even then.
 
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weckart said:
To be fair, you would probably have bitten off the seller's hand in 2006 for 32GB of Apple RAM at that price considering the Mac Pro was, what, £2500?
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Perhaps, perhaps not. :)

My first sampler cost me £2K from the now defunct Turnkey on Charing Cross Road and at the time, the proprietary expansion module which provided a whopping extra 8MB of sampling memory cost £400. A couple of the shop staff made efforts to draw my attention to its availability - with one of them repeatedly attempting to entice me into purchasing it (presumably because of the huge commission) with the lure of a discount on other stuff that I was interested in.

I declined to pay what I determined was daylight robbery given what I'd already forked out and resolved to make do with the stock 2MB RAM (10 seconds of stereo samples/20 seconds of mono samples at 44.1Khz) and soldiered on with that set-up till a while later when I learned from the organisation who designed the product that you could bypass purchasing the manufacturer's proprietary unit and install standard SIMMS instead. :D

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Per XLER8yourMac, the price of a 4GB FBDIMM was around $800, so RAM would potentially have cost more than your Mac even then.
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An expensive hobby, to quote my eldest brother - who mused that you have to shut your eyes and hand over the money in such situations. No wonder the previous owner only expanded the RAM to 3GB. 😂
 
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TheShortTimer said:
An expensive hobby, to quote my eldest brother - who mused that you have to shut your eyes and hand over the money in such situations. No wonder the previous owner only expanded the RAM to 3GB. 😂
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Indeed, unless you were in a business where time was money, in which case...

Also, looking at some videos on YT, I was reminded that the Powerbook 3400c would have relieved you of the best part of $7,000 when it came out, with competing PC notebooks not very far behind. Definitely not for the hobbyist.
 
Dronecatcher said:
I'm dying to know...what were you up to with these toys?
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Trying to become a sample-based musician. I was heavily influenced by the likes of Coldcut, Double Dee & Steinski, DJ Shadow, Prince Paul (especially the De La Soul is Dead era), Marley Marl among many, many others. Unfortunately I never got to grips with the drum programming/sequencing aspect and gave up after a few years.

Ah well, I had a fun time staying up late and listening to random stuff for sample fodder that I'd picked up at the market or a boot sale for 50p earlier that day like a Soviet audio test LP, a Peruvian flute album, a Mr Men record and letting the VCR record whatever was on late-night TV such as talk shows for the audience applause and films for dialogue snippets.

I even had a couple of phone conversations with the sample clearance folk at the MCPS as they were then called to try and out if anything in my record collection was old enough for the copyright to have lapsed and become public domain. No such luck. :D
 
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I've actually put in some offers on some of these units (not this particular one) and all have been rejected. Amazing what people want for a known bad system with all kinds of parts removed.

Here's one I made an offer on:

VINTAGE APPLE MACINTOSH POWERBOOK 160 LAPTOP
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After ignoring my offer the seller just sent an offer of $60 for this item. Needless to say I rejected the offer.

On another note I picked up an "as-is / parts only" 160 for $45 which includes the floppy and hard drive (which this one did not).
 
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@m1maverick Do you fancy some RAM upgrades at these bargain prices?

There's the chance to make an offer. :D

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TheShortTimer said:
Who's prepared to pay that though - and why?
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Look at an analogue wall clock.

Take stock that there are sixty little ticks around the circumference.

That’s the number of suckers born in an hour.


But for real now, I am left to question the world view and head space of someone who, openly, offers items at prices (and with absurd levels of watermarking sale photos) well and beyond what one can find them elsewhere. I’m not sure where the line at which “predatory pricing” is neared, but I feel he might like to hang out nearby.
 
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Doq said:
$100/MB is an absolute STEAL though!
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For 1993 or so, yep. :)

B S Magnet said:
But for real now, I am left to question the world view and head space of someone who, openly, offers items at prices (and with absurd levels of watermarking sale photos) well and beyond what one can find them elsewhere.
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I always get a good laugh out of those listings, whatever their motive may be.
 
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