Thats just a silly Price!!...

Simian · 17 Feb 2009 at 08:39

For a laugh I thought I'd have a look to see how much it would be to take my Laptop (HP HDX16-1005EA) from its installed 4Gb up to its maximum 8Gb (its running Vista64 before anyone say it won't see it!!)...

Now the memory installed is 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 Laptop Memory CL5 (blah blah) which at most places is Sub £40squid...

So I thought I'd have a look and see how much 8GB (2x4GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 Laptop Memory CL5...

I was shocked to see prices in excess of £500 :eek:

I can't find it cheaper anywhere!!...

How come its Sooooooooooooooooooooo Extortinatly Expensive?!?!?!.. :confused:

Looks like I'll be sticking to 4Gb for a bit!!..

Sim

Killwerty · 17 Feb 2009 at 09:16

That is expensive. Just had a look on Crucial and yeh £475 -> £500. Anyone know why?

gurusan · 17 Feb 2009 at 09:21

I guess putting memory with that sort of density on a SO-DIMM PCB is just tricky at this point...

Typhoon · 17 Feb 2009 at 09:54

Cant imagine that there is too much demand for them either, must be made in very small batches.

Simian · 17 Feb 2009 at 10:31

I'll just have to struggle (hehe) with Photoshop and AutoCAD etc on 4Gb...

I was only seeing how much it was anyway!... Can't even afford £25 squid to take my other aged system from 1Gb PC3200 to 2Gb at the mo!!..

It just shocked me that to double the RAM is 10x the price!!...

Axil · 17 Feb 2009 at 10:55

probably a combo of not many Memory makers making the stuff, the lack of demand and technical problems forcing the prices up

mame · 17 Feb 2009 at 11:12

Laptops arn't really made with upgrading in mind.

Simian · 17 Feb 2009 at 11:39

Mine is or can be!... its got 4Gb and can handle upto 8Gb... the 320Gb 5400rpm SATA Hard Disc can be changed to a 7200rpm SATA (what ever size you want) Hard Disc...

Mr-White · 17 Feb 2009 at 12:59

is like that with ddr too, price for 2gb ws £40 a few weeks later is over £80 :eek:

MW

Clum · 17 Feb 2009 at 15:00

Laptop components are always going to be stupidly expensive because nobody really upgrades them too much hence there's no demand.

mame · 17 Feb 2009 at 15:27

Simian said:
Mine is or can be!... its got 4Gb and can handle upto 8Gb... the 320Gb 5400rpm SATA Hard Disc can be changed to a 7200rpm SATA (what ever size you want) Hard Disc...

Cool. Go for it then

Wipster · 17 Feb 2009 at 16:55

Crazy moneys

Aod · 18 Feb 2009 at 10:39

the reason why its so much more expensive is that instead of having one-gigabit ram CHIPS (those little black squares?) you need 2Gb ones, which are MUCH harder to make and are thus, considerably more expensive.