Look at this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227493
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227492
Granted, one is sold out, but look at how cheap 1GB SODIMMs are!! Lenovo is selling 1GB DDR3 SODIMMs on the cheap as well. I see sales popping up like this recently.
Why can't someone make a desktop motherboard that takes SODIMMs?? You could get 4GB on the cheap ...
I saw this on another forum with a logical explanation following it:
The push to DDR3 was this poster's reasoning, and it makes sense, but why aren't prices going down? Obviously the demand for 1GB SODIMMs is going to be ridiculously low, which is likely the cause, but even DDR3 is much higher now then when I purchased both my 6GB kits of 1600MHz CAS 8 DDR3. The best sales on kits now after rebate are more expensive than the kits I purchased before the mail in rebate!! Are prices ever going to come back down? I work at Best Buy, and I have noticed that even the prices of retail computers have either come up, or had features omitted in order to apparently offset the latest increase in memory costs. For example, an Asus desktop retailed for $500 for just the tower. It had a decent dual core Intel processor, 6GB of ram, good sized hard drive, Windows 7 HP 64 bit, and a nice dual antenna wireless N card. The model that replaced it retailed for the same price, and had pretty much the exact same specs - minus the wireless N card. I noticed a Gateway and an HP model that had similar removals on the newer model, which replaced the older models at the same price point.
This is disturbing, and I am just asking anyone out there that is "in the know" more than me if there is a light at the end of the tunnel, or if the upgrade to 2GB from 4GB and from 4GB to 8GB will continue to no longer be such a cost effective way to upgrade performance on aged computers (or even new ones that are just seeing an increased workload).
What say ye?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227493
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227492
Granted, one is sold out, but look at how cheap 1GB SODIMMs are!! Lenovo is selling 1GB DDR3 SODIMMs on the cheap as well. I see sales popping up like this recently.
Why can't someone make a desktop motherboard that takes SODIMMs?? You could get 4GB on the cheap ...
I saw this on another forum with a logical explanation following it:
DDR-2 will continue to become more and more expensive.
The push to DDR3 was this poster's reasoning, and it makes sense, but why aren't prices going down? Obviously the demand for 1GB SODIMMs is going to be ridiculously low, which is likely the cause, but even DDR3 is much higher now then when I purchased both my 6GB kits of 1600MHz CAS 8 DDR3. The best sales on kits now after rebate are more expensive than the kits I purchased before the mail in rebate!! Are prices ever going to come back down? I work at Best Buy, and I have noticed that even the prices of retail computers have either come up, or had features omitted in order to apparently offset the latest increase in memory costs. For example, an Asus desktop retailed for $500 for just the tower. It had a decent dual core Intel processor, 6GB of ram, good sized hard drive, Windows 7 HP 64 bit, and a nice dual antenna wireless N card. The model that replaced it retailed for the same price, and had pretty much the exact same specs - minus the wireless N card. I noticed a Gateway and an HP model that had similar removals on the newer model, which replaced the older models at the same price point.
This is disturbing, and I am just asking anyone out there that is "in the know" more than me if there is a light at the end of the tunnel, or if the upgrade to 2GB from 4GB and from 4GB to 8GB will continue to no longer be such a cost effective way to upgrade performance on aged computers (or even new ones that are just seeing an increased workload).
What say ye?