a good few many years ago.
£90 for 4mb of ram.
(waxdart hello., Mon 4 Oct 2010, 14:34, 17 replies)

£210
on a 19" CRT monitor. A naff bargain basement brand too

I remember my mate's dad spending many peta-quid on a 20mb hard drive that was actually attached the interface card itself.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 14:39, closed)

I remember when ram was about £1 a mb
and a friend of mine put 128mb in his computer for around £130. less than a month later I bought 256mb for around £40. Now I chuck anything less than a gb :(
( Peej, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 14:39, closed)

RAM prices fluctuate more than oil
Two years ago, I bought 2x2GB for £30. It now costs £55. A typhoon hitting the factory can make all the difference.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 14:45, closed)

I remember reading somewhere that the price of RAM correlates to volcanic activity.
(TWith2Sugars, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 15:08, closed)

I bought a Dell
The weird, rare RAM it uses means that if I want to add another 1GB, it will cost me £500. That's what Mr Memory quoted me and that was the only place I could find that sells it. It's a Dimension 8250 if anyone doesn't believe me/is interested.
( stopmeandslapme Cometh the hour, cometh your mum, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 15:14, closed)

There's some on ebay

( Peej, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 15:39, closed)

But none of it will work in my machine
Can't remember the exact details, it was 2 years ago when I looked into it but there's an ECC vs non-ECC issue whatever that means and my motherboard wants the rarer of the two.

~~~~~~~~

Having just had a look at ebay I see someone saying they stock both so I might be able to upgrade afterall, wasn't the case 2 years ago, I asked sellers will it work with my motherboard and was told no.

Here's the Dell upgrade, only $700:
accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/Memory_Upgrades/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&cs=04&sku=A1166101
( stopmeandslapme Cometh the hour, cometh your mum, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 16:24, closed)

Ow
Just... ow. This is why I don't like Dell and their ilk.

I know this is going to sound smug but seriously, if you're not buying a laptop, build your own! It's dead easy and a hell of a lot cheaper.
(Sir Itchalot has a very self-referential signature, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 9:47, closed)

Rambus?

( idonthaveafunnynickname Drink-Aware? Sure. I'm aware I want another drink., Mon 4 Oct 2010, 17:28, closed)

1990...
...I paid £90 for half a megabyte to go in my Amiga 500.

Still, I wasn't totally ripped off. The memory card came with it's own clock.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Mon 4 Oct 2010, 15:26, closed)

Hah.
I can beat that. I paid 90 quid for half a meg of ram and *THEN* I had to pay another 40 quid for a guy to /SOLDER/ it in!
(DjArcas, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 17:41, closed)

To upgrade an amiga
was never a waste of money.
(waxdart hello., Tue 5 Oct 2010, 17:47, closed)

Dont feel
too bad, because people like you spent so much money in the early days of computer hardware, it made people realise just how much money was in it.
Spurring people to make the technological advancements of today and cheap RAM
( 6821isnotmyPIN Bored cig., Mon 4 Oct 2010, 15:51, closed)

I had a 386 SX as my second PC
The 387 co processor would have cost an arm and a heart and a lung when it was new but by the time I got hold of it (10 years after it was used as a school machine) I'd prized one out of a derelict old work machine that was gathering dust in the cupboard for ZERO. Playing solitaire and AOL 3.0 on Windows 3.11 didn't seem to benefit from the maths co-pro power though.
( Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Mon 4 Oct 2010, 23:40, closed)

I paid 80 quid for 64kB of RAM
In my Commodore 64, back in 88 or so. Damn I loved that computer. IK+, Barbarian II, Double Dragon II, Dizzy, Rainbow Chaser, Elite, fantastic games.
(McChinaman banned, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 2:37, closed)

Oh how times change...
I brought 8GB of Kingston Hyper-X DDR2-8500 for £175 last week.. equates to 2.136p per MB or £21.875 per GB.

However, it won't fit in my shuttle case due to the large heatspreader.
Selling it for £150 so I can buy some that will actually fit....

Just saying like....
(The_Mighty_Spleen, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 11:23, closed)

If it's last week
then you can return it as a mailorder rejection. And Kingston will likely be sympathetic anyway. Just talk to them rather than losing the money.
( Fronds are waving gently on, Tue 5 Oct 2010, 12:59, closed)