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pcernie
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I've heard all the usual stories about depleted memory stocks, demand because of Win 7 etc, but £35 (on average) for a measly 2Gb of laptop RAM?  http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/6857060/K ... oduct.htmlThey can shove it right in their slot  Looking around, a similar 1Gb stick is £30 - I only paid about £10 six months ago _________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
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jonbwfc
What's a life?
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Crucial have pretty much the same price so I think it may just be the market at the mo. Memory prices have always been a bit volatile. Mind you, I once paid £200 For 8 MB of RAM.
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lacloss
Doesn't have much of a life
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Location: Marbella Spain
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MEMORIA PORTATIL 2 GB DDR2 800 KINGSTON 37,59,, thats the price this week here .
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koli
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I agree, prices are crazy these days. I bought G.Skill NQ 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 for £92 six months ago, now it is £140. 52% increase!
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veato
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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Location: Nottingham
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£93 + VAT for 4MB (think it was 72pin)!!! on a mobo that looked something like this_________________Twitter Blogflickr
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belchingmatt
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I paid something in the region of £70 for a half meg upgrade for an Amiga. 
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ChurchCat
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Did we not used to work out the value of memory in £/ kilobyte? _________________A Mac user 
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EddArmitage
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hifidelity2
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Exactly –for my 1st “real” PC (which by the way ran OS2 rather than windows) rather than Spectrum / Atari ST etc I paid to have an extra 4 Mb (taking it to a massive 8MB). So in the end its all relative – there was a mass over supply some time ago and that is no longer the case. Also the fact that as most of this is priced in US$ means that it has got more expensive
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finlay666
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I bought 2 sets of http://www.ebuyer.com/product/143844At £40 and £35 respectively, price has actually dropped recently, they were over £100 _________________TwitterCharlie Brooker: Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.
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saspro
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RAM prices have increased a lot but only because it got so cheap last year (nobody was making any money as they flooded the market). If you want 1GB DDR2 800MHz SODIMMS let me know, I've got 6 brand new ones I'm about to sell for £12 each.
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koli
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Good shout, I have two kits of Crucial 2gb Ballistix collecting dust at home. It seems that I can get £30 for each on Ebay. I am definitely going to list them...
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pcernie
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Location: Belfast
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Cheers Sas, but it's a 2GB stick I need this time around (netbook with only one slot and a 2GB maximum  ), and I'm in no real hurry as the installed 1GB will cover most tasks for a while _________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
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